Stupid New Zealers with their big book-learnin words...
Their complaints are trivial...................
Since they don’t really teach reading or writing anymore, only make boys think they’re girls and girls think like victims, it’s understandable.
I had a Marine tell me that
MinuteMen were used during the
Civil War,,,
Another was offended by me using the
Term;
Player.
Thanks Marines.
WTH is “year 13”?
trivial?
Isn’t that a sixth grade vocabulary word?
I’m glad I don’t live in New Zealand.
> The exam asked for students to write an essay on whether they agreed with a quote from Julius Caesar which reads: “Events of importance are the result of trivial causes”. <
So Caesar’s quote is too confusing? Then give the students something else to ponder. In future test versions, use this quote from Al Sharpton instead:
“But resist we much… we must… and we will much… about… that… be committed.”
The idea they didn’t know what “trivial” meant, is crazy.
BUT, it sounds like the essay will be graded appropriately anyway, suggesting that if the student did a good job of explaining what THEY meant by “trivial”, the essay would be interpreted on that basis.
Which is how I always approached essay questions. My first paragraph for any essay question was to provide my interpretion of the essay question, so the grader would know exactly what it was I was TRYING to address.
It generally worked, I mean I was very good at essays, and did well on such tests, and I presume in part because there was no question about what I was trying to write about.
I remember once when I had to write an essay “defending Plato” on some specific insight he had, and I started with “Not that Plato needs defending”, and the teacher responded with “You should have said “Plato needs no defense”.
(Once I did an essay on Sidhartha by instead writing a poem meant to sarcastically denounce the concept of “circle of life” including inanimate objects. I got an “A”, but sadly the teacher missed the sarcasm. I really thought the concluding line “You will find your own Nirvana, hidden deep within your soul” would have been a tip-off.)
Cultural Marxist “education” has not been good for the intelligence of Westerners.
New horizon in test taking. You can now answer the question “based on the student’s own content and understanding of the event, many of which were different to what the word actually means”
So, if they ask a question like “what is the square of 2” you can answer “It’s 3” and that will be OK because that’s how you understood the question.
So New Zealand has become a bunch of ignorant p*ssies too.
It’s good to know that the rest of the world is catching up to our fine educational standards.
“Who needs to know how to spell? That’s trivial. We’ve got better things to do.”
For wont of a nail, a Kingdom was lost?
My daughter asks me vocabulary questions all the time. She is, however, 9.
What? You hear it in rap lyrics all the time...oh wait...never mind.
For those in Rio Linda & New Zealand
definition
trivial : of little worth or importance
:“Trivial isn’t a word that you hear too frequently, especially not if you’re in Year 13,” Stadnyk said.”
Really, even if they didn’t know the word, students with any brains could have figured out from the context of the quote approximately what the word must have meant. After all, if someone said “important things have important causes”, it would not be enlightening or quoteworthy at all.