Teacher Faces Backlash After Failing 27 Out Of 31 Of Her Students For Not Taking An Online Quiz

"Wednesday they were really loud and I announced an online quiz because we did not come to the point to do it in class."

Ayoub

• Published in Interesting
• November 15, 2022

Teachers interact with different types of families while doing their job and each family has its unique way of supporting their children and making them feel loved. The most challenging kind is the helicopter parents. 

Helicopter parents are basically parents who are constantly hovering over their children and analyzing every detail in their life, which includes the grades a child brings back home. Teachers appreciate the parents who shower their kids with support.

However, an overbearing parent can be the reason why their child doesn't evolve as a person and hinder their success. A study conducted by the Journal of Child and Family Studies found that children who are unfortunate enough to have "helicopter parents" are more likely to be school burnouts and have a tougher time going through the transition from school to the adult world.

A Redditor who goes by the username u/TeacherByHeart21 made a post on the r/AmItheA**hole subReddit where she explained how she failed 27 out of 31 of her students for not submitting an online quiz in time. The user was unsure whether she made the right decision and decided to ask the Reddit community about it.

Scroll down to check out the full Reddit post, and scroll a little further to read the comments from the original post.

Here's the original post by Reddit user u/TeacherByHeart21:

OP announced to their class that she was planning on uploading an online quiz that they had to do.

Only four people ended up taking the test, so OP had to fail the rest.

OP is unsure whether she made the right decision and decided to ask the Reddit community about it.

OP eventually modified the most to include an "Edit" with more clarification.

OP then added a second edit to point out some important things.

OP finally added the last edit and addressed the insults she received because of her post.

The quiz is simple and can be done in 10 minutes.

The daughter of the angry mom ended up messaging OP and apologizing.

The post was about the quiz issue, but people are making it about OP.

OP added that she is not a native English speaker because some people mentioned the grammatical mistakes in her post.

Here's how the Reddit community reacted to u/TeacherByHeart21's post:

You can be disappointed, but it's still your fault after all.

Sometimes students genuinely don't notice these details.

This is a perfect learning opportunity for the students.

"I can't stand when people try to bully teachers on grades"

This is a good foundation to build for life.

Teachers are not required to be there 24/7.

This will teach the students to pay more attention in class.

It would be unfair if they genuinely didn't hear OP.

Helicopter mom should leave OP alone.

OP's students should take responsibility for their actions and pay more attention in class next time. Some students took the quiz, which proves that OP did warn them about it. Some were simply paying more attention than others.

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