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OK even the Mail couldn't make this up! I'm sorry have we gone completely stark raving bonkers?
OK even the Mail couldn't make this up! I'm sorry have we gone completely stark raving bonkers?
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When my daughter finished her first year at secondary school I asked for an interview with her English teacher on open night to discuss her work.
I explained that whilst it was pleasing to see the high marks she was getting I found that her spelling, lack of punctuation, and grammar were atrocious.
It was exlained to me that it was more important to encourage her 'self-expression' than any of the points I had mentioned. Also the teacher didn't have the time to read and correct everything.
After a 'forceful discussion' her future work was corrected in red ink, and she consequently actually learned something about the structure of English language.
I explained that whilst it was pleasing to see the high marks she was getting I found that her spelling, lack of punctuation, and grammar were atrocious.
It was exlained to me that it was more important to encourage her 'self-expression' than any of the points I had mentioned. Also the teacher didn't have the time to read and correct everything.
After a 'forceful discussion' her future work was corrected in red ink, and she consequently actually learned something about the structure of English language.
And for years education has had those giving up hasn't it?
It's deliberately mischieveous - it's not just red ink, that's just a small part of an effort to focusmo on helping improvement rather than seeming judgemental.
It doesn't take much writing FAIL in red ink over a kids book before they start to see themselves as a failure.
Not everyone has your self confidence
Some have other valuable abilities that you lack - like for a wild example the ability to see things from other people's perspectives
It's deliberately mischieveous - it's not just red ink, that's just a small part of an effort to focusmo on helping improvement rather than seeming judgemental.
It doesn't take much writing FAIL in red ink over a kids book before they start to see themselves as a failure.
Not everyone has your self confidence
Some have other valuable abilities that you lack - like for a wild example the ability to see things from other people's perspectives
Been there, done that craft. I had the self same arguments with my daughter's primary school teacher. I also got a 'telling off' from her primary 1 teacher for having had the audacity to teach her to read before she went to school.
Apparently it's much better to keep your own children ignorant so that the others who cannot read aren't left feeling inadequate!
She was told in no uncertain terms exactly what I thought of that piece of hogswash.
Apparently it's much better to keep your own children ignorant so that the others who cannot read aren't left feeling inadequate!
She was told in no uncertain terms exactly what I thought of that piece of hogswash.
When I was teaching we were only supposed to correct the words that were subject specific, used to drive me bonkers. No negative comments were allowed, it all had to be positive stuff. Some members of staff marked with green or purple ink but I think they did that to look cool or unusual, not to before sensitive to the pupils feelings.
@Jake - Just an example of the crap education kids get these days.
@D9 - only eat there once in a while, keep daughter type happy!!
I don't blame teachers per se, more the garbage they are set in terms of cirriculum and government guidelines. Kids are left to learn to spell on their mobiles as for arithmetic....if my daughter wasn't such a fiscal mercenary she'd never have learnt to count. The situation is dire because so many or the lilly-livered lefties in society have forced us to get soft, I find it a joke!!
@D9 - only eat there once in a while, keep daughter type happy!!
I don't blame teachers per se, more the garbage they are set in terms of cirriculum and government guidelines. Kids are left to learn to spell on their mobiles as for arithmetic....if my daughter wasn't such a fiscal mercenary she'd never have learnt to count. The situation is dire because so many or the lilly-livered lefties in society have forced us to get soft, I find it a joke!!
No child must be allowed to fail. All must win, and everybody must have prizes - to misquote Lewis Carrol.
We don't single out bright or dull children for appropriate education - those words are judgemental.
We mustn't impose any discipline in case it causes anxiety.
So we end up with generations of badly taught, underachieving kids who have been taught to pass selected subjects, with little understanding, and with no respect for the rules of civilised behaviour.
I feel better now, must go lie down in a darkened room...
We don't single out bright or dull children for appropriate education - those words are judgemental.
We mustn't impose any discipline in case it causes anxiety.
So we end up with generations of badly taught, underachieving kids who have been taught to pass selected subjects, with little understanding, and with no respect for the rules of civilised behaviour.
I feel better now, must go lie down in a darkened room...
