Jun 2, 2008

Riddle me this.

Posted by Mark at Monday, June 02, 2008

All semester we've been giving students tests, giving students homework, marking tests, organizing projects, grading speeches, etc. Now we come to find out it was all for nothing.

Why?

No student can get a grade in English below 70%.

How fair it is to have a student that puts everything they can into a class only get 30% higher than a student that comes late, does nothing, and disrupts the class?

And I thought my last school was a joke.

EDIT: Last night (6/2/08) I dreamed that I was in one of Hitler's concentration camps moving loads of dirt from one spot to another. Then back again when we were finished moving it. That about sums up how I feel about all the work I've done up to now. There's nothing like doing loads of work to find out it was for nothing.

That said, I still love all my students, and life is always getting better and better. So no worries.

 

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4 Comments:

  1. Tamiko said...
    6/2/08, 6:31 PM  
    If I was a students, I would be pretty dissapointed. I don't know how you would feel as a teacher wanting them to do their best...
    Kaylin said...
    6/3/08, 5:18 AM  
    And here I thought that level of stupidity didn't really exist!
    The Pallmanns said...
    6/4/08, 11:13 PM  
    It's the same in Japan.

    Think of it this way:
    the impact you have on your students will be far greater than you can measure with a grade.
    Anonymous said...
    6/26/08, 8:28 AM  
    that is weird but it seems like education is wonky everywhere you go. Here in Honduras it is all about paperwork paperwork and more paperwork and you get one thing wrong and you have to redo the entire form with all these little boxes.... oh heheh look at me ranting on your blog... anyway it is the way things are in other countries different.

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