Teacher cheating

[sheila3935]

My neighbor is a teaching assistant at a school in our town. A couple of weeks ago she contacted me about hatching eggs for a teacher at her school who wanted to hatch for her class. I donated the eggs and took chickens to the class and talked to the kids. This morning I recieved a text from my neighbor telling me another teacher at the school decided to do the same, so she set up and incubator brought 3 eggs to school and put them in. She set the eggs Thursday. When the kids came to school this morning there was a little black chick in the incubator. Are you asking yourself how that could be possible? Well this teacher brought 3 eggs from her home that she had purchased at the store to put in the incubator, then this weekend bought a chick and put it in the incubator before the kids came in this morning. In my opinion she did not teach these children anything and what she did was wrong information. In other words she cheated. If one of her students cheated on something they would be in trouble, but this teacher just taught her students to cheat. Sorry for the rant but just makes me mad.

 

[rancher hicks]

And this surprises you why? This is why we need to do away with tenure and get rid of bad teachers who are just coasting like they allow students to do.

 

[sheila3935]

Yeah I guess it does because when my kids were in grade school they had wonderful teachers. Makes me sad to know my grandchildren will not.

 

[Spookwriter]

Chicks come from eggs, no? So the teacher is kinda sorta almost correct.

But for me hatching the egg is a process. A complete, enjoyable process.
If I just wanted chicks, I would go to the store.

If the teachers sole point was to instill the knowledge that chicks come from
eggs...I guess she was correct. But someone missed the point.

And to that, I disagree with the teacher. The children would of been better
off in seeing the process.

 

[sheila3935]

I guess from that point of view you are right but like you I think the children needed to experience the whole thing. They have missed out on seeing a pip and watching them hatch. I know that they could hatch on a weekend but maybe they would have been able to at least see part of the process and now the kids think it only take 3 days to hatch out a chick.

 

[Spookwriter]

Chickens are pretty cool to people like us. Ever wonder why so many
of us gather almost daily on a site called Backyard Chickens? Must have
something to do with our liking chickens.

I'm no expert. But I have a working knowledge, and I really enjoy reading
other peoples post about their chickens. It benefits us all.

We learn.

Sometimes we don't understand why other people don't "get" chickens.
This teacher apparently doesn't "get' chickens.

Her students were given no chance to understand. Too bad.

But I also wonder what was the teachers intended point?

 

[CrazyCatNChickenLady]

When I was in school we hatched eggs in kindergarden. Went through the whole process of turning the eggs, seeing them hatch, and letting them dry out (then took a couple home!). Even though I dont remember most of it! If any of those kids are future chicken owners what does that teach them.. 2 days under heat and POOF! you have chickens? False information is almost as bad as the kids who dont know where chickens come from.

I think that is wrong. Any idea what grade these kids are in?

 

[Chick_In_The_Burbs]

We didn't do chicks when I was in school but we did do Salmon Eggs. It was hugely educational. We went on a field trip to the hatchery where they harvested the eggs and sperm, mixed them and then gave the tub to our teacher. We then brought them back and put them in a tank where everyone in our grade could see them. There were regular reports on the stages the little guys were entering and all kinds of things that taught about development and environment and all. Then when they were big enough (about two or three months later, I think) we had another field trip to release them into a local stream that used to have salmon but had lost them all due to over fishing. It was awesome! I wouldn't have learned a fraction of what I did if all we'd done was go on one field trip to learn about the salmon and then released some fry three days later! And even that would have been more than what this teacher did. Sub-par teaching to say the least.

 

[PineappleMama]

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Oh my ... REALLY?!!? That's her way of teaching the process of hatching?! Sorry but that's more of a magic trick than an actual education. If I was a parent there I'd be questioning just what other little shortcuts she was taking with my kid's education.

 

[mom'sfolly]

Since you were not in the classroom, nor was the teaching assistant, you are just repeating rumor and supposition.

Maybe the teacher said "this is what the chicks will look like when they hatch", or maybe it was still three eggs and one chick. You don't know, unless you were there.

Does this mean that when I slipped the SLW chick in the brooder with the BO and silkies I hatched, that I was cheating? Or was I taking advantage of an opportunity?