Wednesday, December 02, 2009

Times have changed and have been harsher on we teachers

A parent wrote in to complain about an English paper taken by his child. It had many mistakes in the set question, and they were only discovered and corrected on the actual day the paper was taken. He was unhappy that the teachers had not corrected them before giving it out to the students.

I find this a little hard to read and then turn the page. When I was a student, this happened as well. The invigilators would correct any mistakes in the paper before we started doing it. There were a few of them but there were no complaints made against the school.

Sometimes, they can be overlooked before printing the paper out. It is not so fair to just lambast the teachers for making an error any human can make. We may be teachers but we are not deities. Some parents just fail to realise that.

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