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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 10 2013 @ 04:27 PM EDT |
In both high schol and college I debated answers that I thought that the
instructer marked incorrectly.
In most instances, pointing to source material that deomonstrated that the
teacher's answer was wrong, didn't change anything.
In one instance, without the intervention of the department chair, i would have
been expelled. I was banned from taking classes in severald departments.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 10 2013 @ 06:33 PM EDT |
I remember my best teachers more than the others. In 70 years of
life education I've had maybe 3 or 4 who had a technique of getting
to know the class abilities quickly, then leaving the top 15th percentile
to their own devices, maybe encouraging them to mentor the bottom
15th, while the teacher got on with dealing to the middle 70th.
But then I don't recollect seeing a teacher like the one in the cideo,
nor the conditions lamented in the retiring teacher's letter.
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| Authored by: Wol on Friday, May 10 2013 @ 06:59 PM EDT |
Well, the UK wants to classify all schools with "below average"
academic results as "failing". I think the idiots who thought that up
need to be given a "fail" in basic statistics ...
And one school close to where I lived got shut down as "failing"
because of poor exam results ... yet it was one of the most popular and heavily
over-subscribed schools in the area!
Thing was, it did NOT select pupils on the basis of ability, it did NOT believe
that exclusion was a valid punishment, and DID believe strongly in getting the
best out of every child. Which meant that parents with bright kids wouldn't want
to send them there, but if as a parent you knew your kid wasn't that bright, you
wanted them in this school!
So given the pupils it had, this school achieved very good results. Shame the
system couldn't recognise excellence when it saw it.
Cheers,
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