That making your students buy a program that will grade their performance is ridiculous. Okay. My sister is in band and her teacher required them to subscribe to a one-year service that costs $40. $40. That is damn expensive to require all of your students to purchase. This is public school, that's absurd, and should not be okay. What's more is that not only do you have to purchase something, you have to download the program to use as well. What's even more annoying is that I'm going to have to be the one to download it and have it on my computer. I don't want her **** on here. I don't want to have to drop everything I'm doing including my own work so she can do her homework. Anyway, point is. You're being payed to teach these students. You should be able to grade them yourselves, but if you have so many kids that you can't you absolutely should not require your middle school kids parents to buy something so expensive to grade them for you.
Huh. Where I live a teacher tried doing that the parents would DESTROY THEM. With words But yeah, kinda surprised a public school is getting away with that
My moms a teacher and her parents would never lit it fly either. Yeah. I get if you're paying to go to the school, but otherwise no.
:D I think I might go to the same university as you! (One of them anyway.) Was it MyMathLab? I hate that friggin thing. But yeah, I don't see how a public school could enforce something like that. A free program might slide but ... well forty dollars isn't too bad. As Fearless stated, she had to get a program that cost $120 dollars ... then again that takes the place of your book ... but you still have to pay tuition ... hmm ... universities are different. Anyway teach shouldn't be doin' that crap. But ... umm ... when did band become an actual class in middle school ... or am I that far out in the sticks?
You think you're so smart with your ... your knowledge and crap! .... You're not exclusive to certain school!!! *pouts* Srsly tho, didn't know that. Only have attended one university and I figure that higher grade schools would have higher grade programs ... Meh, it's whatevs. Sad to hear I'll be stuck with the same crappy program for a longer period of time though.
Ah, I remember when middle-school was the time I committed to my career path. I should've definitely been prompted to waste $40 of my parents' money on something that would totally happen. This is dumb. Schools are dumb. They shouldn't be, but they are getting worse and worse and need to focus solely on the education side of things.
Same with me. I don't have as much of a problem with that though since it's college. You know you're going to have to pay ridiculous prices for things that aren't worth it, that's like college's whole thing. But at public middle school where they weren't told that at the beginning of the year, it's not the same.
That is pretty ridiculous, especially in school. I can them recommending software to students if the school can't afford it, suggesting things that would help them but are optional but making them compulsory is just silly. I suddenly feel very lucky that my university gives us all the expensive maths software for free (or for a few pounds). Like I just got Mathcad for my own laptop for free, when it costs quite a bit to buy. I think we also give us MathLab later on in the course, though I think to save money we don't get it until we actually need it. EDIT: Huh, we don't actually use MyMathLab, we use Mathcad now and Matlab later on.
This^ If I'm even able to get the stupid thing to load, I have to suffer through figuring out the exact way to enter the problems. Forget it if you have squares inside of fractions with multiple variables. I know this is the twenty first century and all but do we have to make everything digital?
