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I noticed that the BOY’s papers are graded in red-so I asked his wonderful teacher about it.
Seems that though the teachers were asked to find a kinder genteler ink-Al’s teacher has refused to go along because red drives home a point better than oh-fuschia.
This is the same teacher who let my fellow room-mom play RELIGIOUS Christmas bingo with the kids.
There ARE good teachers out there!Posted by Annoying Little Twerp
04/06/2005 at 06:06 AM
Don’t tell anyone her name though. She may get fired if the NEA finds out.
Vilmar,
re O and A levels
When I was at school in England (some time ago now) we lived in a “conservative” area. The local authority used an exam at age 11 to determine what secondary school the kids would attend. If you passed you would attend either a grammar school or in my case a technical school. Everybody else went to a bog standard secondary school. In other areas the bed wetting socialists deemed this to be elitist and there was only one school available called a “comprehensive” where the brighter students would in theory be “streamed” into more challenging classes. In our schools we would sit exams at age 16. For the brighter students this would be the O or ordinary level. For the less able it was a CSE (Certificate of Secondary Education) O levels ran from grades A to E with C and above considered a pass. CSE ran from (if memory serves) 1- 6 where a grade 1 was considered equivalent to an O level pass. There was no equivalent to a High School Diploma. At 16 students would either leave to join the work force/army etc. or if they got good enough O level grades could stay at school or attend college to study for two years for A or Advanced level. Most students would require 3 A levels in order to attend University. Well I forget whether it was Labour or Conservative but either way the CSE and O level was amalgamated into the GCSE. Basically it is all part of the dumbing down process. We now have a society where the bed wetters resent anyone being rewarded for working hard. Labour underneath the veneer of being a centre party are still the party of envy. Today everyone (no matter how stupid or inept) has to be given a reward lest they feel left out. Games and academic achievement are frowned upon because they instil competition. Hence the lowest grade being a C we wouldn’t want little johnny to think he is a failure or heaven forbid encourage him to try to work a bit harder. All part of the grand Labour scheme to turn us into “clients” why do you think there are so many people on the dole? Actually that’s not true I should say “Why are there so many people on “invalidity benefit?” calling them unemployed would demean the poor souls! (sarc)This is o-so-fucked-up.
So, let me get this straight. I purple is now the color that the teacher uses to grade papers, after a while, purple will become the “bad” color - a purple “F” will look just as bad as a red “F” does now. So, that means they have to change colors periodically.
Ugh!
LyndonB - thanks for your explanation. Why not just give everyone the same grade no matter what? That seems to be the FAIREST thing to me!
As we can see, the so-called liberal side of politics in this country is getting more and more tangled up in their own web political correctness, to the point that (I believe) they are going to just self-destruct.
To wit:
Howard Dean as the chairman of the democratic party? He “hates” republicans.I pray that by the time my boy is old enough for school, that I can afford to send him to private elementary school.
Let me tell you, it doesn’t matter the color, as long as it is different from the color of what is being graded. Had teachers who would just pull a felt-tip from a mug and grade with that pen (saves wear of pen, and thus cost - teachers had to pay for their own). Red, blue, green - doesn’t matter; a mark is a mark. Just red just slightly stood out more.
If kids don’t like the marks, changing the colors won’t make a difference. Bad marks are never friendly. What would really make the difference would be for the kids to DO BETTER so the teacher wouldn’t have to make the marks in the first place!
04/06/2005 at 06:29 AM
