Jennifer Ledwith

I'll give an example.

One of my students, we're preparing for SAT and SAT math on the entire test.

Students can use a calculator.

And what I have been trying to teach him all along is, you know, you need to be able to do some of this stuff without the calculator because there are questions that the calculator isn't going to be as useful as you'd like it to be.

And he was like, oh no, oh, Miss Jennifer, I wanna do, you know, Teenage Boy.

And I said, okay.

And then he went and practiced and he came to me.

He said, oh, Miss Jennifer, this was so hard.

You have the calculator.

And let me be clear, I am not an anti-calculator, anti-technology person.

I was like, what happened?

You have the calculator.

Miss Jennifer, that calculator was useless.

So a lot of times when they're trying to do the shortcuts and trying to do the hacks, I'm always there to remind them of their goals.

And usually when they come to me, they've tried to do something.

They try to get a better grade, try to write an essay on their own.

They have tried to prepare for a test on their own and they did not get the results they needed.

So I, you know, and I say, well, you know what you tried before.

And sometimes I'll even offer it, open it to them.

I said, I'll ask them, do you want to try it your way?