Quote Originally Posted by KestrelBike View Post
Reminds me of a story Bert told me [I'll leave it to him to tell, if he wishes]. Very worrying indeed.
My oldest was in grade school doing some math homework (kinda pre algebra stuff, X+Y = Z and such)and I saw some previous papers that had been graded, I noticed although he had a rough idea what was going on his answers were wrong, but had not been marked as such. I asked the kiddo about it and he said the teacher said they were correct.
I stashed the paper until the next parent teacher conference.
When that time came I pulled out the papers and asked the teacher why the incorrect answers had received credit for being correct.
"Well I am not worried about the CORRECT answers, rather I want them to work on the concept"
I just about blew a gasket! I laid into here in a polite manner and asked here how on earth the kids could ever be expected to learn the "concept" if they are not getting the answers correct? I then told here we did not go to the moon on a "concept".
I also told her to teach my kid correctly or don't bother teaching at all.

Freakin appalling.