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This teacher grades students with tutors differently · Scott & Ally on Demand

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  SPEAKER_01: I wanna eat cheese.
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  SPEAKER_01: National Cheese Day for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Early 2000 jammer.
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  unknown: Yep.
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  SPEAKER_01: I love cheese.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love cheese.
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  SPEAKER_01: I really love cheese.
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  SPEAKER_01: You already ate cheese this morning.
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  SPEAKER_01: Did you?
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  SPEAKER_01: Some do, some don't, but today's National Cheese Day.
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  SPEAKER_00: I ate feta.
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  SPEAKER_00: Really?
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh that what an odd cheese to start your day with.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, so I've been getting on this kick and it's so yummy.
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  SPEAKER_00: I take a tortilla wrap and two eggs, a tablespoon of feta, and then I've been cooking up peppers and onions on Sunday, and then all throughout the week, I'll throw those peppers and onions on top of my wrap.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's so good.
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  SPEAKER_01: Sounds good.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's just I'm not a feta person.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, if it was a cheddar, I'd be all right.
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  SPEAKER_01: But feta, man, it's the feet smell.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love feta so much.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will go to Sam's and buy the big tub of it.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's how much feta I eat.
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  SPEAKER_01: Some do, some don't.
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  SPEAKER_01: Anyway, I need you to read this message that came in because there's no way I can get through the message without expressing my passionate response.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, I'm sure you're gonna stop me 19 times.
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  SPEAKER_01: I I will, I will, I will let you read this in full.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, and it's ironic that this came to us because I'm heading out of here for a quick break because I'm gonna run the kids to school today.
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  SPEAKER_01: He's tired.
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  SPEAKER_01: Did the lawn yesterday.
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  SPEAKER_01: I need some more time.
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  SPEAKER_01: No, I uh I'm uh it's just one of these days we're juggling in the house.
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  SPEAKER_01: So uh it's ironic because I'll be dealing with getting kids to school.
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  SPEAKER_01: This deals with school.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'll let you have it.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am a teacher.
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  SPEAKER_00: The message starts, period.
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  SPEAKER_00: As the school year winds down, I'm having to defend my grading.
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  SPEAKER_00: I grade kids who have a tutor differently than kids who don't.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am much harder on the kids who have a tutor because their parents have the resources to pay for them to get extra help.
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  SPEAKER_00: I believe they should be graded harder because they have an advantage over the other kids whose parents may not be able to afford the extra teaching.
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  SPEAKER_00: I believe you have to grade differently because students who have a tutor are on different levels than those who don't.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am scheduled to have a meeting with my principal oh tomorrow.
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  SPEAKER_00: I just realized it said Friday.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um I think my grading makes perfect sense.
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  SPEAKER_00: What do you think?
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  SPEAKER_01: I think the only thing saving your worthless teaching job is your contract, and I wish they'd expire it on you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh I think you are a pathetic excuse for a teacher, and frankly, I hope my kid never gets you.
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  SPEAKER_01: And if they do, I'm gonna request a change.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because here's the thing.
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  SPEAKER_01: So Gavin uses a tutor.
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  SPEAKER_01: He doesn't use a tutor because he wants to be better than everybody else.
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  SPEAKER_01: He uses a tutor because he needs the extra help because the way classrooms work now is you get, you know, it's worse even than the old days where it was more lecture-you know and and it was, you know, like, hey, if you couldn't keep up and write notes, you know, you were screwed, kind of like me.
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  SPEAKER_01: I was, you know, I'm a very one-on-one, hands-on kind of learner.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then once I get it, I'm rock solid with it, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: Probably could have used a tutor.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I I had him.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, but uh you use a tutor to help you get it get it into your into your system, if you will, and really understand it.
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  SPEAKER_01: If Gavin didn't have the tutor, who is a magnificent woman, retired fifth grade teacher, and a fabulous, I mean, works so well with Gavin.
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  SPEAKER_01: I I don't feel he would have excelled the way that well, not excelled.
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  SPEAKER_01: Forgive me.
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  SPEAKER_01: He excels in the sense Gavin gets a very high compliment from his teacher.
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  SPEAKER_01: Gavin's not a high grade student.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: Lydia, God love her, it comes a little bit easier for her.
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  SPEAKER_01: Gavin works, his teacher has said this his grades are because he works so hard.
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  SPEAKER_01: He's one of the hardest working kids in the class.
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  SPEAKER_01: I love that.
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  SPEAKER_01: So for this teacher to be saying that she's gonna give a lesser grade because you have a tutor, God, I really hope your principal is about ready to tell you that you can't do that.
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  SPEAKER_01: And if you do, we'll have a meeting with the superintendent because you really should not be teaching.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm not saying all kids aren't.
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  SPEAKER_01: Or mover to kindergarten where they don't need a tutor yet, and then you don't have to worry about it.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, sometimes I do that.
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  SPEAKER_01: They'll move teachers around to different grades.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't know the whole political structure of that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh-huh.
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  SPEAKER_01: Sometimes some go from kindergarten to second grade, some go from second grade to up.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I don't know if it's like When you're getting close to retirement, you go back to down to kindergarten because you're like, let me just skim through this.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't know how that works.
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  SPEAKER_01: But if it turns out that you can't accept the fact that uh and trust me, if I could hold on to the 30 bucks a week and not have to pay the tutor, that's 30 bucks more in my pocket.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, for sure.
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  SPEAKER_01: But it's worth it for the right reason.
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  SPEAKER_01: And for you to give a kid a lesser grade from that, you deserve to not be teaching.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't think that kids are on the same playing field, but the reason for the tutor is so you can get that per that kid up to the, I would say, a similar playing field.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's why I don't think that they could be graded different.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because what's great about a tutor, number one, is that they are trying to find a way that your kid can get educated in a style that works for them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because I know when I was in high school, I had somebody tutor me in math, and it was for some.
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  SPEAKER_00: Was it because you wanted a bigger grade or because you were struggling to get it?
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  SPEAKER_00: Whenever I see numbers, it just is it's almost like a blackout.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's and I I needed somebody to explain it to me in a different way that the teacher wasn't and didn't have the time to because we had like 30 kids in the class, right?
• 5:05
  SPEAKER_01: I went you went to a really big school.
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  SPEAKER_01: You get, but that's not even the big school.
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  SPEAKER_01: The way they teach now, you get like a couple hours to totally understand the whole math before it goes to the next one.
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  SPEAKER_01: There's no spending time.
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  SPEAKER_01: And if you listen to most teachers, most teachers will say this God, I wish we had more time to spend with these kids, but we are forced to cram in the next project and the next thing and the next thing.
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  SPEAKER_01: And there's no time to get it in their system.
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  SPEAKER_01: So that's exactly what I'm saying.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's why I was like, I needed a tutor because the teacher doesn't have time for just me.
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  SPEAKER_00: And and at least the I mean, and I still struggled even with the tutor.
• 5:41
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, I thought you were gonna say with math 3386, it was gonna be like, yep.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes, but at least it got me to getting in the game.
• 5:49
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, if if they if they were gonna I might pass the test.
• 5:53
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
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  SPEAKER_00: If they got if they gave me a grade that was if they were grading me tougher, I'd be like, tougher?
• 5:58
  SPEAKER_00: I think I just made it into the dugout.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_01: Are you guys with me?
• 6:04
  SPEAKER_01: Should this teacher be getting a massive reprimand for the principal tomorrow?
• 6:07
  SPEAKER_01: I say yes.