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Topic	Is our school system effective?
Zeus 12/11/17 7:01:30 PM #10:	Depends on what you're talking about. The current system is better than nothing but, at the same time, it doesn't do much to prepare students for life, the standard of education is relatively low, knowledge retention is abysmal, That said, every English-speaking nation in the world is current graduating students who, among other things, confuse "it's" and "its", "you're" and "your", and other relatively basic things which should have been corrected in elementary/primary. LittleRoyal posted... Recently I saw a girl crying in a hallway (not me I swear) because she was so broken up about her grades. She would be losing a scholarship because she accidentally enrolled in a 400 level course as a junior and wasnt ready, and she stayed in the course idk why. College and some high schools lead people to study drugs and parties to relieve stress. Our school system actually pushes people into these dangerous places since high school where they start really grading you and making it really stressful and scaring you with things like being unable to pursue dreams if youre bad at school, or not getting scholarships or not getting into most colleges. Do you think this way is effective or overall does more harm to students? In addition to being anecdotal, your complaints are silly. The girl was performing at a higher level than most students. If more students had her attitude, the country would be better off for it. More importantly, you're graded in middle school and, iirc, elementary as well. Grades are important and, because there only a certain number of top slots, competition is going to be fierce later on. That can't be helped under any system. BTB posted... http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0318-doyle-finnish-schools-20160318-story.html The problem with anything related to Finland is, iirc, that they teach much closer to the tests used for international standards. Effectively it's teaching to the test on a higher level. And, while standardized tests are often criticized, arbitrary standards meant that students could graduate with honors in some districts yet be fundamentally deficient. --- (\/)(\/)\|-\| In Zeus We Trust: All Others Pay Cash <cite>Zeus posted [p:892032237] in Is our sch... [t:76086927]...</cite> <quote>Depends on what you're talking about. The current system is better than nothing but, at the same time, it doesn't do much to prepare students for life, the standard of education is relatively low, knowledge retention is abysmal, That said, every English-speaking nation in the world is current graduating students who, among other things, confuse "it's" and "its", "you're" and "your", and other relatively basic things which should have been corrected in elementary/primary. <cite>LittleRoyal posted...</cite> <quote>Recently I saw a girl crying in a hallway (not me I swear) because she was so broken up about her grades. She would be losing a scholarship because she accidentally enrolled in a 400 level course as a junior and wasnt ready, and she stayed in the course idk why. College and some high schools lead people to study drugs and parties to relieve stress. Our school system actually pushes people into these dangerous places since high school where they start really grading you and making it really stressful and scaring you with things like being unable to pursue dreams if youre bad at school, or not getting scholarships or not getting into most colleges. Do you think this way is effective or overall does more harm to students?</quote> In addition to being anecdotal, your complaints are silly. The girl was performing at a higher level than most students. If more students had her attitude, the country would be better off for it. More importantly, you're graded in middle school and, iirc, elementary as well. Grades are important and, because there only a certain number of top slots, competition is going to be fierce later on. That can't be helped under any system. <cite>BTB posted...</cite> <quote>http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0318-doyle-finnish-schools-20160318-story.html</quote> The problem with anything related to Finland is, iirc, that they teach much closer to the tests used for international standards. Effectively it's teaching to the test on a higher level. And, while standardized tests are often criticized, arbitrary standards meant that students could graduate with honors in some districts yet be fundamentally deficient. --- (\/)(\/)\|-\| In Zeus We Trust: All Others Pay Cash</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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