Dec 7, 2020we should have kool aid in the waterfountains and bikini models during recess
OPDec 7, 2020ThebigbeltsYou don't know s***, that's why you keep making these stupid ass threads. Go experience life and maybe you wouldn't have such a child like outlook on everything.
So You’re mad because I think about things from a different perspective as you? And if my threads are so stupid why don’t you just ignore them? Honestly glad that I have a child like mindset because you have let all of your hope for the future be crushed by adulthood.
Dec 7, 2020Sounds like incentivizing idiocy
Dec 7, 2020In my opinion the biggest problem with public education in the USA is that all subjects are graded the same way
Percentage grades make perfect sense for stem exams and comprehension exams for reading and history, there are objectively correct answers
However, tests are not good ways of evaluating the students knowledge of a book or history, writing is much better for that. Grading writing with a percentage makes no sense, since everyone is submitting a different product.
- Dec 7, 2020Faygo
Some sort of feedback is necessary of course. The problem is that the nature of grading is that it is treated as a objective measure of the quality of the students work which subconsciously plants the idea that some people are naturally better than others into the mind of the student
Yep, the fact that students are told at a young age that they're good at one subject is terrible. When I was younger people always told me I had a "math brain", this really turned me off from writing for a very long time. I've learned how to become a good writer over time but I resented my english and history classes throughout high school because I thought it just wasn't for me.
Academic talent is not real and the fact that it is forced on students promotes mediocrity. Anything can be learned and I actually think grades can be a great way to give students who are hard workers good feedback, but only in certain cases.
- Dec 7, 2020
WHaaaTI don’t think it’s the grades itself that is the problem but moreso the way things are graded. A lot of these curriculums and grading measures are very arbitrary and stifle creativity, so I think if the grading system was drastically revamped it would work. As it is it’s s*** tho and grades do a very poor job or depicting anything about someone’s intelligence