Teacher Flunks 14-year-old For Not Putting His Name on His Test, Parents Get Involved When They Hear About it, Causing School Catastrophe

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Dec 6, 2024 2:00 PM EST

Welcome back ladies and gentlemen of the internet. Some people grew up loving school, and some people hated it. School comes more naturally for some, and for others, they struggle to study for tests, submit their homework, or even attend class. Whether you like it or not, when you're growing up you have to play by the school rules, or you'll face consequences that will impact your future. Following rules in a given classroom is part of the procedure, it's setting the students up for careers, as well as teaching them subjects in class. 

In this Reddit thread, it centers around a middle school teacher, and her student, a 14-year-old boy who hasn't put his name on his paper. Apparently this is an ongoing problem in the classroom, which is shocking enough. But the teacher actually posts the nameless papers for students to resubmit, and this student just chose not to. 

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    I had five students who got letter grades lower than what they should have on their last report card because they had "missing" work that wasn't missing at all, but just on the nameless board. One of those student's parents is now complaining, because that student was trying for an academic scholarship to a private high
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    r/AITAH ⚫ 10 hr. ago Telephone Dizzy6205 AITAH for not grading nameless papers, even when I know whose papers they are, and even when it results in a student losing a scholarship?
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    Middle school teacher here. Whenever a student turns in a nameless paper, I post it on a board in my class. It's up to them to put their name on it and turn it in. Every student walks right by that board on their way into my classroom every day. They also. have access to their grades online all of the time.
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    I give the students zeroes for missing work until they turn it in. Even if I know whose papers are the nameless ones, I give them zeroes until they put their name on it and turn it in.
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    I had five students who got letter grades lower than what they should have on their last report card because they had "missing" work that wasn't missing at all, but just on the nameless board. One of those student's parents is now complaining, because that student was trying for an academic scholarship to a private high
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    school, and I "ruined it" for them with this low grade on their report card. As soon as I got them email, I replied that the student had a dozen missing assignments on my missing papers board, which he walked by every single day, and should have known were missing in the grade book.
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    AITAH here for expecting a 14- year-old boy to have the wherewithal to put his name on his papers, or face the consequences? He has no special needs. He's just a regular student.
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    Edit, for more info: It's a private middle school. I'm a 22-year veteran teacher. All grades are accessible online or through an app any time for parents or students. The student in question also had a warning about missing work on his mid-trimester progress report, which his parents signed and
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    returned. I tend to grade a lot of things, but not everything gets the same number of points. Daily work gets 10-25 points, quizzes get 50, and tests and projects get 100. The idea is that students can bomb a few things, but still get a good grade, because so many things are graded. I do not count nameless
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    work as late. I just require that they find it on the board, take it off of the board, put their name on it, and put it in my turn-in bin. I'll then put it in the gradebook when I get a chance.
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    Ironyismylife28 • 10h ago • Top 1% Commenter NTA. Parent's don't want to teach children personal responsibility and natural consequences these day. Good on you for doing it. You didn't ruin anything. The student did.
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    pepsilindro90 • 10h ago • If they can't handle something as simple as putting their name, then those kids will have their sh rocked when they become adults. A good way to prepare them for how unforgiving life is.
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    FitOrFat-1999 • 10h ago This "student" is 14?!?!, didn't put his name on a DOZEN papers and couldn't be bothered to check the nameless board to get a grade on them? Let Mr. "Don't You Know Who I Am??" suffer the
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    consequences of failing to follow basic instructions. He doesn't deserve a scholarship. NTA.
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    irish-riviera 10h ago A paper with no name belongs to nobody. Are you supposed to memorize the whole classes hand writing? And what if you do grade that paper and it turns out it. was someone else's? NTA
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    drawntoward... 8h ago • You ruined nothing. The kid ruined his own grades. Definitely NTA and it's pathetic that anyone would think otherwise. At least we know where the kid learned the lack of responsibility. Apparently it's acceptable at his home.
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    Eta he won't go far in a private high school if he can't even put his name on his work.
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    lajdkdkfjfj 10h ago • . I don't think you're the ah le. It's important for students to take responsibility, and they had plenty of chances to fix it.
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    illini02 • 9h ago • NTA. Former 8th grade teacher here as well.
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    You have a board for the nameless papers. The kids have access to the grades. I'm going to wager that, like most schools, the parents have access to the grades. If they are choosing to not look at it until report card time, then go crying about it, that is on them.
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    Kids and parents today have so much more access, so much more leniency, etc, and still they don't want to do the most basic sh like put a name on a a paper. I learned my lesson with this by 5th grade.
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