Friday, November 3, 2017

After a long hiatus as life has happened here you go with another Jem.

   Yesterday, I managed to survive the round robin parent-teacher conferences at both the high school and middle school, and while I got great reports on both kids one incident made one teacher and me laugh so hard that everyone was staring at us. Some of my friends in the teaching field might enjoy this one too.

  A little background first. Jack does not like to redo work, to him it is quite possibly the worst fate imaginable. So, in general, he turns in work to the standard he thinks is fine. As you can imagine a pre-teen has pretty low work standards which leads many teachers to return work to be redone. Again, Jack hates this "A LOT" especially when it comes to social studies work. 

  Now to the incident. Jack's social studies teacher is a very jovial guy and found the whole event humorous so no feathers were ruffled here. Recently Jack was given an assignment to complete which he did to his (low) standards to which his teacher responded by returning the work. In the conversation that ensued the following took place. His teacher explained to Jack that "sometimes you have to accept work you don't like." To which Jack responded by handing the assignment back to his teacher and saying "exactly".
 
   His teacher told me that he had to look away to keep from laughing. In the end, Jack did make corrections and his teacher acknowledges that he can't give Jack much room to work within the future.