Thursday - November 18, 2010

moonbat of the year?  I give up. Things just keep getting so pc they all win top prize.

So I guess now I join the pc brigade awarding all of em the top prize for moonbattery , thus leaving no one a loser. Which of course isn’t planned. Just works out that way. I keep reading things in the papers that stagger the imagination, the Brits would say “Barking Mad” and they’d be correct.
Like this story in the morning paper for example.

Do you remember your school days when asked a question and we all threw up our hands if we thought we knew the answer?  Well, apparently it’s been discovered that the kids who don’t raise their hands cos they just don’t know (or maybe are shy?) might feel left out of things.
So how do you address that problem?  Oh. You never knew it was a problem?  Well, it just became one.

School bans children from putting their hands up

A school is to ban pupils from putting up their hands when they know an answer in class – because it “alienates” less intelligent children.

11:14AM GMT 17 Nov 2010

Children at Ormiston Sir Stanley Matthews Academy in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffs, will now have to wait to be asked questions in class, rather than putting themselves forward.

The radical new plans come after teachers at the school worked alongside teaching guru Professor Dylan Wiliam – who claims that asking children to put their hands up alienates other pupils.

Teachers will now be picking pupils at random to answer questions – to stop brighter and more outgoing children from answering too many questions.

Lynne Jones, assistant principal of the school said: “It means there’s no hiding place for children in a lesson, there’s no opt out.”

Teachers at the school will also stop grading pupils’ work as part of the radical new teaching methods.

Professor Wiliam, from London’s Institute of Education, has even advised teachers to write comments about pupils’ work on separate pieces of paper – and make them guess which comment is meant for their work.

Professor Wiliam claims that if work is graded, pupils don’t bother reading the comments left by teachers – and has instructed teachers to stop giving pupils an overall mark on every piece of work – instead grading them for effort every six weeks.

He said: “Teachers could write the comments on strips of paper instead of on the essays. They could then get a group of pupils to match up the comments to their essays.

School head teacher, Mark Stanyer, said: “What we are trying to achieve is to get pupils to think for themselves.”

I suppose the grading thing they speak of here might be okay but the hands thing is silly. If the same kids keep trying to answer questions, doesn’t a teacher always have the option to call on any kid he or she wants to?

The wife has an observation re. liberalism in schools.  I hadn’t given it a lot of thought but she wonders if anyone hasn’t clued into the fact that as schools get more and more liberal, anti social behavior increases.  I think she has a valid point there.

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