TAs the swallowflies herald spring, spikes in texting, emails and other messaging now precede the class advice season. Arguments from students, parents too, contesting the assessments on the bulletins until two hours before the advice, wondering at the mentions “Not returned”, proposing to organize catch-up … Up to students offering to compensate financially a teacher for the time she would agree to spend listening to a new oral.
Even in the extracurricular, a drama club had to send a message begging parents not to write to negotiate role changes for their offspring.
All this is not new, but now what was the prerogative of the favored categories ten years ago is now practiced by all. And why so much this year? This is the subject that makes the coffee machine in the teachers’ room talk. Is it the anxiety generated by Parcoursup that makes every parent, every student, obsessed with the perfect record? Maybe, but Parcoursup has been around since 2018 … Is it the pressure of switching to continuous testing for the bac? Certainly, but this trend is also observed in the smallest classes. Even in the extracurricular, a drama club had to send a message begging parents not to write to negotiate role changes for their offspring.
Is this related to the ease with which, thanks to Pronote and EcoleDirecte messaging, e-mail addresses and SMS, students and parents have more means to communicate with teachers? Have the confinement and the half-gauges freed these exchanges? Should we look on the side of the loss of prestige of teachers since The War of the Buttons ? Or the redefinition of the job of manager of the school career of his child? “Some students and some parents systematically dispute the results obtained at each assessment and some students refuse to take tests so as not to lower their average, can we read in the report of the meeting between the management of the Lycée Hélène-Boucher in Paris and the representatives of the FCPE. Teachers are annoyed or unsettled by these requests. ”
The teachers, for their part, feel abandoned by the institution, which does not give them any instructions on the answers to be given. Here they are tossed about by the ebb and flow of contradictory messages from the administration: “Do not put any annotation on the copies, that will avoid appeals”, “Be careful, if there is no annotation, it creates a lot of appeals from people who say they have not been corrected, so put red lines, but no comments ”…
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