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Originally Posted by Phozy
(Post 8032185)
Not sure if this deserves it's own thread, sad day for education..
In a job, if you don't do something, you don't get "part credits", in school if you dont do an assignment, you deserve no marks at all, not a partial mark on "incomplete".
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You need to ask yourself if today's schooling system's philosophy of "everyone wins, there are no losers" is really helping.
When I was in grade 7, there was a kid, named Glenn that was the class clown/village idiot that got kicked out of music class. So he spent his time in the hall, supposedly doing 'independent study'. In reality, he'd sit there and have a great time talking to pretty much anyone that came by.
Now, at the same time, I was stuck in the classroom with a teacher that just didn't get it at all. No one had a real interest in learning the history of big band music. I certainly didn't. Music class was a joke.
And based on my perceptions of Nova Scotias music program, you might as well cut that shit out of the curriculum as that money was accomplishing nothing.
But my point is, at the end of the year, guess where we both ended up? Grade 8. He was pushed right along. Someone else's problem.
The funny thing was, I had already noticed that had happened in grade 6. I said to my mom..I work hard, and get good grades. Tell me, whats the point? She at least gave me a good honest answer..."your own reward kid. No one at the school cares." She had realized that when I was in grade 5. On our report cards, it used to say "your child is: "below expectations/at expectations/above expectations". Mine was always marked "at expectations" so at a parent teacher conference, my mom asked a newer teacher that I had that year, "what needs to happen for him to be above expectations?" And she was provided the favor of an honest answer, "he can't"
There was no way in the system that I could be provided a harder book to report on, or long division that i couldn't do in my head. So the entire school system was based on letting smarter students stagnate while we devote our time to the ones that are lagging behind.
In this way, I think we were doing better with a one room school house. Why segregate kids when really you can advance a kid up a grade level, while still maintaining the social aspects that are important for a kid to be among peers.
They continue to re-design the school system to resemble nothing of the real world that kids are supposed to graduate into. Is it helping? Are kids better for it?
My answer is no.
