Son's Maths teacher openly discussed his exam results with the classroom
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When i was younger i remember Asian being Chinese/Japanese etc then 9/11 and suddenly Asian = middle eastern/anyone brown but not from Africa or the Carrissa.
Are we going back to calling the others oriental?
Or to the clever people, both.
which is completely useless when he was discussing ethnicity.
No, I'm essentially asking how he is encouraging victimhood in your opinion?
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Aren't oriental people technically mongoloids in terms of ethnicity? Or have they changed the name due to 'Political Correctness'?
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I don't know if he'd get a 1 on appeal, my school used to suggest that the most you'd be likely to move up was one grade if you had a poor result but there's a fair chance they were talking nonsense. Good luck to him on his appeal anyway and it would definitely be worth counselling him against making the complaint especially if he's likely to be successful - if he ends up in that teachers class after making a complaint it could be very awkward. Perhaps you can persuade him that longer term it's worth just accepting the teacher might have been out of order but actually proving that he's capable and deserving of being in the credit class is better than the short term "result" of getting the teacher in trouble.
eh?
Isn't that like jumping from a C to an A*?
that would be a spectacularly miss-marked exam paper.
Just buy him a hard hat and put him on the yellow bus tomorrow for school.
When I was in school the test results were put on the wall after each test. Never bothered anyone. In fact it made people work harder as no one wanted to be last!
When I was in school the test results were put on the wall after each test. Never bothered anyone. In fact it made people work harder as no one wanted to be last!
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eh?
Isn't that like jumping from a C to an A*?
that would be a spectacularly miss-marked exam paper.
Not quite, the system isn't entirely comparable to GCSEs. It's a jump certainly but because of the way it works it's almost harder to get a good general grade than it is to get a lower credit pass i.e. within each banding you've got to get say 65% (or whatever) of the total marks available to get the top grading within that banding.
Essentially doopydug's son would be relying on the quality of his previous work as evidence that he's just had an off day rather than expecting the exam to get remarked and moved up by a couple of grades.
We use to have weekly science tests when I was at school, and the teacher (who was such an *******), use to make everyone read out their results at the end. The first time I didn't revise, and got a terrible score.
My teacher completely ripped me for a good 5 minutes in front of 30+ kids. Needless to say I aced every test after that for the remainder of the year.
Moral of the story, I really don't think there's anything to cry about, that's life.
My teacher completely ripped me for a good 5 minutes in front of 30+ kids. Needless to say I aced every test after that for the remainder of the year.
Moral of the story, I really don't think there's anything to cry about, that's life.
My little brother tried to do it with one grade and was told by the SQA that the test undertaken by the school was not deemed valid for some reason unknown to myself. He was arguably annoyed at that a little given the emphasis placed on prelims and the importance of high scores, but ultimately it's bad luck.
There has to be clear differences, normally backed up with coursework and with teachers covering reasoning I believe. It is to prevent people who genuinely did have a very bad 'off day', or who have for other personal reasons struggled in the final set of exams from suffering because of it.
I wouldn't call it prevalent, it certainly wasn't in the 90's when I was at school I wasn't aware of anyone successfully appealing a Standard Grade result.
Kids these days get it easy
The school I went to used the cane for particularly bad maths homework results.
I should think so.
He is essentially claiming his teacher is victimising him, being a victim is all about making excuses for bad things (this happened because somebody did this to me).
In this case the outward appearance is that he is embarrassed because his teacher told their class he didn't make the required grade but I suspect he's just embarrassed because he didn't make the grade.
To be honest, We need to move out of this pointless exam culture, it really has no basis in reality, especially when it can be ruined by oh so many things.
Its credibility is tainted simply by the teachers telling you the answers.
It is simply a mess that can arguably be solved quickly if people bothered to care about education.
Nowadays the test is only a part of the overall score, but i think its still relied on too much.
Eventually Technology will come around to nullify it completely, like an optical implant that can search the internet or Intelligence boosting drugs to help memory.
We need to focus more on what is TAUGHT, not be told how finish a bloody test.
Its credibility is tainted simply by the teachers telling you the answers.
It is simply a mess that can arguably be solved quickly if people bothered to care about education.
Nowadays the test is only a part of the overall score, but i think its still relied on too much.
Eventually Technology will come around to nullify it completely, like an optical implant that can search the internet or Intelligence boosting drugs to help memory.
We need to focus more on what is TAUGHT, not be told how finish a bloody test.