Students not performing?! Lower the bar!
Saskatoon's public high school students will no longer be penalized for plagiarism or for turning in assignments late under a new evaluation method for report cards.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/saskatchewan/story/2010/09/26/sask-report-cards-no-docking-marks.html#socialcomments
this just blows my mind.
I've been stewing about it since I've read it. Thought I'd pass on the insanity to the rest of you
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NO SWEAT
ok its not fine... what the hell Canada!? Kick some teachers asses when they come up with stupid ideas like this.
A sanctioned reason to not bother their arse. Wow is your industry going to hate you school!
no definitely don't teach them to go above and beyond, they certainly wont need that attitude in university, and pffffffff the job world, no its not competitive at all.......
Oh but wait, a country full of under educated people is far more easy to control isnt it?! oh there we go, better cut some more funding too then.
I know for when I was in school, there was that certain type of person, the perfect student. It didn't matter if they were actually intelligent or learned more than the rest of us, they followed curriculum and assignments to a T, memorized all the right stuff and did the work like a trained monkey. Those were the type of people that excelled during school, the ones who adhered to the expected way a student should perform.
I think exploring different methods for academic evaluation is a good thing, but this is a bit silly.
After all, coursework was implemented to combat people not being able to do tests, i.e work out the actual problems under pressure, which is what happens in day to day life. And rather than re-evaluate the testing progress they created a backdoor for people who do not understand things to gain a high grade.
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i usually copied my homework from the fat kid at lunchtime, and turned in pretty much every single assignment late. It was the figuring out how to get away with it that was the rewarding part, i learned loads. I had this great system at uni involving an old printer and a floppy disc, worked like a charm the three times i dared to use it.
now these kids won't even be using their minds for this. Humph.
Simon Fraser University has introduced a new grade: FD, failure with academic dishonesty.
People still did it.. copy pasta + change a few words that seem like "college words", and your set.
To be honest it's out teaching system... it sucks... NA's system is the worst compared to countries similar to it's economic level. (even India and China have better systems... I started out with learning more as a child, so I could handle more when I grew up... it's a process that starts early.)
I think that if we re-think our current education system, and bend it in a way to make younger children LEARN, actually LEARN, rather than "watch" a teacher read everybody poops (yes even that apple...) and play with brightly colored cubed shapes... we could stop all this.. since the child will want to learn more, he will want to expand.
Hmmmmmmmg sigh*
When I was a kid Lego and Meccano was the big thing.. now it's a fucking (sorry) half truck half shark thing.
What should be done? I am almost positive he ripped all this. There might be people on PC whose content he has ripped.
http://www.youtube.com/user/gettutorial
I reported him.. lets see what happens?
I've never gotten any of that. =/ Of all the things to be passing, the public schools seem intent on lowering the standards for students.
Don't get me wrong I think some private schools are good, but not everyone can afford them. I know there's multiple issues involved also, like teachers being paid less (this is just from the few towns I've lived in) and other budget issues that our economy are constantly facing, but I mean...come on... Not penalizing for plagiarism? You might as well just write them an A for their paper before they even turn it in. We need our minds more engaged and pushed further and NOT just on the AP programs, in my opinion.
Sorry for the rambling but schooling has been one of my biggest peeves over the years, because I was in the beginning of this degradation of the public education and have continued to see their effects in the US too ever since. -sigh-