Is this fair?
Well my teacher had us fill out this student info sheet and when it ased for an emergancy contact # I could do nothing but say that I do not know information and that all I knew was that was on file in the office. Well apperantly this was a grade and a significant amount of points was deducted from my grade all because I didn’t know certian info.
Also she made up this story about what if "There was a tornado and the place was blowing up and you were being rollled away on a stretcher and they tried both you parents and couldn’t contact them and they came up and asked you who else is there to call?"
and NO I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP!
Do you think that it was fair for points to be decucted from my grade all because I didn’t know any emergancy contact # and all I knew that it was on file in the school office if my file ever made the transfer?
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17 comments
Pud'N on February 26, 2010 at 7:00 pm
no she needs to be reported to the office
Amber L on February 26, 2010 at 7:00 pm
I dont think its necessarily fair to test kids on what their parents have taught them. Tests should be kept to things taught in the school. If they were concerned about you not knowing more about your emergency contact info they should send a letter to your parents telling them how important it is for you to know this especially in the instance of your school blowing up in a tornado.
omggg! on February 26, 2010 at 7:00 pm
no
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You know its true on February 26, 2010 at 7:00 pm
Definitely not fair and you should tell your parents and the principal about it.
NOT The Token Emo Kid on February 26, 2010 at 7:00 pm
well it is important but i remember they had my parents fill it out when i was younger they gave it as a homework assignment yo us on the first day of school
Emma B on February 26, 2010 at 7:00 pm
no
Precious on February 26, 2010 at 7:00 pm
Talk to your parents about it. It all depends on how old you are. If you are in high school, you should know a neighbor, friend, or relatives number besides your parents to call in an emergency for your own safety, not just because a teacher wants you to know it.
33 weeks with baby #1(Noah) on February 26, 2010 at 7:00 pm
You should ALWAYS know emergency contact info. It sounds like you are well old enough that you should have this memorized by now. Her "story" isn’t exactly bizarre, it COULD happen.
I’m not too sure if you should have been graded on this but your teacher obviously felt it was necessary.
Marshall Lee on February 26, 2010 at 7:00 pm
I think I would talk to my parents and have them talk to the teacher.
Bianca on February 26, 2010 at 7:00 pm
no its not y is this in the pregnancy section?
sculptress on February 26, 2010 at 7:00 pm
This sounds very odd. It is the office that collects and keeps this info. anyways. It is the parents that always register with this info., not the student.
It is important for you to have the info. on you somewhere in case there was an emergency and you were sent to an evacuation center. This is part of how you would be re-united with your family.
The part about losing points for this, unless you were told that this was test material, is odd.
Lifeisgood243 on February 26, 2010 at 7:00 pm
Yeah, I think that’s life…
It may not be fair but its good. I had a teacher kick me out of his class (said he would never teach me agian), just for not putting my name on the paper and the principal agreed. What a jerk. Teachers were put on earth to torture students! My advice: Just tough it out!
LOL Tornado crap!
Good luck
No I'm Chloe. you suck. on February 26, 2010 at 7:00 pm
i can’t stand that shit.
XxKuTiEGaL x on February 26, 2010 at 7:00 pm
thats not fair
reynoldseblacas on February 26, 2010 at 7:00 pm
If the teacher had a rightful purpose for having this information, the teacher could and should get it from the school office. I think you should talk to the school principal about this, and/or have your parents do so.
If you were hurt and being sent to the hospital on a stretcher, your parents would eventually find you. And sometimes there isn’t anyone else to call if the parents are not available. What good would it do, for example, to call a grandparent that lives seven states away?
Once again, this is an example of a teacher pulling an abusive power play on students. This starts in elementary school (kids at my daughter’s school are routinely accussed, tried, and convicted with no chance to defend themselves — it is assumed they are always liars and trying to tell the teacher what really happened results in more punishment) and it promotes repressed anger in people which later in life under the right conditions can result in a massive violent outburst.
Maybe if you explain it that way to the teacher, principal, school board, PTA, district superintendent, et cetera, you can make something good happen from this bad situation by encouraging your local schools to take on the responsibility of examing psychological violence (abusiveness, authoritarianism, power plays, over controlling and unfair teachers, injustice of various types, etc.) and its connection to repressed anger and rage and eventual outbursts of physical violence. Maybe people will start to change the way they behave toward one another and some lives will be saved.
bailezra on February 26, 2010 at 7:00 pm
You don’t know your own phone number?
pammy on February 26, 2010 at 7:00 pm
The teacher is right as far as Im concerned, I would think you need to know that info anyways(just in case of an emergency).Its a simple assignment…sounds to me as though you were being a little bull headed…no offense!!