"Are you satisfied with your kid's language teacher?"-Think It Again..

           

 "Are you satisfied  with your kid's language teacher?"-Think It Again.

          One day, after coming from school, my daughter came to me and asked," Mom which preposition will fit this sentence?" She showed me her worksheet which was checked by her English teacher. I read the sentence and told her, "The answer you have written is incorrect, fix it."

         She replied,"I was also sure that it's a wrong answer but teacher made us write this word in blank space to be filled with given preposition.

           I was certain but still, I googled to make sure my daughter gets the correct answer and I found it was incorrect preposition what she had written. I asked her to check with the teacher again so that she won't make any mistakes in her exams.

          I mean, If she is filling it with the correct preposition but her teacher would think it's wrong. It's very important to do exactly what the teacher thinks or tells students to do so. Sometimes it becomes prejudice against language.

           The next day, my daughter went to her teacher to get to know whether it's right or wrong. The Teacher saw that sentence and asked her to go back to her seat and said, "If I have checked your worksheet than how can it be incorrect. Next time don't come to me with such stupid questions." 

          I got so pissed off by thinking about the lack of knowledge of the teacher. It's not the first time we were facing this problem. Other language teachers too aren't having a good command of the respective language. We had some problems in Marathi too. They don't do homework before teaching in the class. Sometimes we find many printing mistakes in the worksheet but teachers don't bother to fix them. Kids are learning the wrong lessons year by year because of inexperienced and inefficient teaching staff. It's not only about my daughter's teachers or school, but I also found that it's a very common subject to talk about in evening gossips with other moms.
   
           Nonetheless, I didn't have another choice but to ask my daughter to write the same answer in exams as the teacher had taught them. Since we don't get to see the final exam sheets, and my daughter would lose marks because of that confusion. But I did tell her the right answer too. I found this "The Best" maneuver.

          I just want to add here that if they could use a few minutes to do homework before teaching anything in the class, it would help them and students too... Or they should just use the Internet to keep themselves updated instead of going with their half-knowledge and lack of command on the second language. 

         So ladies if you feel the same, you should confront your kid's teacher in PTM or raise this problem in front of everyone in the open house of the school.
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