Posted on 08/21/2008 10:10:22 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Oy. I need a headache powder.
Sorry all. Forgot to add the comment that this is an update with more details about the Dallas school thing that I pinged earlier. It’s not just a re-ping.
We could carry it a step further and just hand them a diploma when they get their driver's license. The heck with the schools. Just think what it would save the taxpayers if we just shut all the buildings down and sold them as scrap.
A win-win.
The dad thought this was just a mother bragging about her smart children, and said, “Do you really think they will ALL get straight A's?”
She said, “Yes I do because they will not move on until they have MASTERED the material.”
At that moment the dad realized his wife was not bragging about the kids, but meant that they WERE GOING TO LEARN the material no matter what!
Yeah, but will the child feel good about the whole thing. That's what it's all about now. Feelings.
Someone please remind me to ask if the professionals that serve me (doctors, attorneys, pilots, etc.) are "graduates" of the DISD school system.
thanks for the ping :)
When I was in high school, I cried a similar cry:
“Stop this school system, I want to get out!”
I love articles like this and think they should be forwarded and distributed as much as possible. Because as sure as I’m sitting here, at least one parent is reading this, saying the practice described is completely idiotic, and is deciding to pull their kids out of the government schools.
No Child Left Behind....in the government schools.
Just think what the leftists will do if the get control of our health care system. Ooooh my! This patient is dying! It is so unfair that the other patients could get better. We must have equal outcomes!
Or.... The results of medical tests must always be positive even if that is not the true reality. Therefore the patient is oficially cured and the government does not need to spend any more money treating them.
Is this the wonderful “socialization” that homeschoolers are missing? ( sarc)
The government school defenders will get ***really** mad at me and say I am spamming **BUT** it needs to be said AGAIN:
Nearly *all* the pathologic “socialization” that kids learn in government prison-like schools *must* be unlearned if as an adult they are to have success in the workplace, marriage, the neighborhood, with in-laws, etc.
So?....How long will it take for a young adult graduating from high school to learn that there is **NO** such thing as “effort based grading” in the workplace!
Did you read that on one of my posts?
My children never received a grade until they were in college at the ages of 13, 12, and 13.
They absolutely did not move on until they had 100% mastery of the material!! ( I **seriously ** mean it!!!)
This would have got me out of some trouble when in freshman health in high school. We were required to answer about 50 question a week and turn them in to be checked. The teacher would glance at them and mark it completed with out reading most of the work. Sometimes I would try to enhance my creative writing skills which at times would lead to a less that fully accurate answer being given. I was finally caught, I guess she read more of the answers than I thought. She read one of my pieces to the class and made redo do the papers she had not returned yet. I was doing well on the tests so I guess I got off easy. I usually wrote a much longer answer when I was taking poetic license. Maybe that;s what tipped her off. But you could not say I didn't put any effort in the work.
Right after 9/11 my neighbor’s daughter came home with a writing assignment from one of her public school teachers. the topic was: Explain how the USA brought the WTC attacks upon itsself”.
I couldn’t agree with you more! I’ve been saying the same thing about the school system.
In homeschooling, I never flunk my children, nor do I grade them. I test them, and if they haven’t mastered the material (as you said), they simply receive more work in that subject until they do master it.
That means they can proceed more quickly through their studies or take more time if needed. So, I agree that the school system should eliminate grading based on age and require mastery of a skill before a student can proceed to the next level.
Here’s an article I posted earlier this year about one school that has decided to try such a system:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1984875/posts
That’s how my mother handled our schooling. She would check our work, we’d go back and do it right. Of course my dad was involved enough in our studies that he didn’t have to ask questions about how the grading went...
So far her assessment of our grades has been pretty accurate. The two of us who are/were in college for engineering-type degrees have achieved or maintained 3.7-ish gpas, the two who went for more liberal arty things got 4.0s...
One thing that seems to have been overlooked -- what if the dunderheaded then? brat doesn't have any self-esteem to damage? What then?
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