About to fight a teacher……

Taylor has an end of year school project which is to create a business. Show a plan, proposals to investors, budget, etc. I think, we have our race team, we’re already doing this, brilliant. We show our budget, all our sponsors, and our plans. That we are actually doing. Other kids have lawn care, car wash, baking that they are just proposing for the assignment. His teacher says he needs to pick something else that’s actually realistic. WTF?!

 

Do a house painting business and one of the basis is that'd you'd hire teachers for the summer and your kid would be their boss.

 

Punch him in face and tell him there's some reality for ya.

 

Sure you are telling the whole story?

 

Maybe the teacher club races and already knows it’s a money dump. Not a money making business venture

 

Ask for a meeting with the principal and the teacher. This will make the teacher justify his/her bias to the principal. Tell the principal that you are willing to not have the meeting if the teacher allows the proposed project. Let the principal do the dirty work and they can both save face.

 

Speaking with the teacher this afternoon, but for now that's it. He was told he needed to pick something more realistic.

 

He needs to look at his teacher and tell her that if she was any good at business she wouldn't be a government employee.

 

Most small businesses end up being money dumps.

 

Why would you escalate to talking to the teacher or the principle? Butt hurt over a "nope, that doesn't work?"

I get it, it's something you're familiar with but why go all Karen that the teacher doesn't like or maybe understand what you're doing.

 

Not going to be nasty, but it is annoying that every other kid has a "made up" business for the assignment, and we are actually doing ours. He has done almost all the legwork reaching out for sponsors and and is learning a ton about budgeting. It's defiantly not a money making thing, but it's not just going through motions for the assignment.

 

Cool.

 

So I have been here before.

The teacher wants him to pick something he has no experience doing, and wants them to follow the set path so she can check the boxes that they have followed the steps.

Racing, while cool, doesn’t easily fit the parameters of the assignment that follows (easily) what she can grade.

It’s a good experience for him. Tell him to watch the Dangerfield speech in Back to School too.

 

Wasn't a "made up" business and going through the motions the assignment?

 

An admin actually doing their job? How novel...

 

Yes, but it seemed like what we are doing checked all the boxes, and he has actually spoken to sponsors/investors and been successful as opposed to theoretical proposals. If we have to change it, we have to change it.

 

Good. The greatest gifts teachers can give students is their ignorance. I was blessed to have a few truly awful teachers growing up. They did more for me than the truly engaged and intelligent ones. I may not have earned a diploma, but the chip on my shoulder proved more valuable.

The line between delusional and driven can be blurry. I understand the skepticism, but teachers should avoid crushing dreams outright.

 

Vote for me Il ban all school bus’s and their stupid stop signs.

 

Principal? We we're talking high school at best? The teacher knows fuckall about running a business, or what is a real business. What would this teacher say about a business plan to use AI and drones to do automated flights around neighborhoods to collect details about roof size and shape, yard size and shape as well as photo recognition of items at the home - pets, trampolines, sheds, vehicles, fences, gates, etc?
The teacher would say it's unrealistic and had to pick something retarded like a lemonade stand.

Yet that very thing is happening today. And that is just a drop in the bucket of that functionality.

 

Won't the teacher be grading the project?