Sun Jun 12, 2005 11:50 pm
Dawn2 wrote:o_0 wrote:Slight clarification.
It will not be affecting the whole state of Florida, only Pinellas County.
It will be each's county's decision to institute this.
HOWEVER...
I found out they are doing this all over the United States, not just in Florida.
._. Infecting counties one by one.
If this turns out to be a joke, I will come to Florida and strangle you. Because that last thought... that it's coming all over... made me cry.
Unless my mum and several Internet sources are all playing a practical joke on me, I'm telling the truth. ._.
Mon Jun 13, 2005 12:39 am
Kyra wrote:I really don't think that the education board people would do anything that utterly stupid. That's just... completely lame. "Let's make under-achievers feel better about themselves!" Y'know, there's a way to do that already. It's called giving them the help they need instead of taking money away from education.
*waves Canada flag*
Hmm...my last band trip in canada was quite fun, so maybe moving there once I'm out of college (going in for music education) isn't a bad idea. I wouldn't want to use that method as a teacher, for reasons already stated in the topic.
Mon Jun 13, 2005 12:45 am
Ahh, the joys of living in Canada. 
I like our systems, with the exclusion of BC, they're pretty simple to understand.
I like our systems, with the exclusion of BC, they're pretty simple to understand.
Mon Jun 13, 2005 12:46 am
That's completely idiotic. I'm hoping our district will be intelligent enough not to do this.
Mon Jun 13, 2005 1:28 am
Xil wrote:Ahh, the joys of living in Canada. :D
I like our systems, with the exclusion of BC, they're pretty simple to understand.
Ah yes, the BC education system. >_> I hate the system we have now... Our minister of education made a complicated new system up with vague and unspecific instructions and very demanding requirements for students, then she "resigned" promptly after that. Gah.
I envy the rest of Canada.
Mon Jun 13, 2005 1:38 am
I LOOOOOOVE living in Canada.
That. Idea. Is. Horrible.
Mon Jun 13, 2005 1:39 am
Yes, go Alberta with the wonderful Grade 3,6,9, and 12 provincal exams while the rest of Canada doesn't have provincal exams.-.-
Mon Jun 13, 2005 1:42 am
What, you mean EQAO?
Mon Jun 13, 2005 1:46 am
Blk Mage wrote:Yes, go Alberta with the wonderful Grade 3,6,9, and 12 provincal exams while the rest of Canada doesn't have provincal exams.-.-
Ah... good old Diploma exams. *amused*
Albertas systems mucked too.
If you graduate (as in get a HS diploma) and then retake a HS course or take a new one after you get it that involves writing a Diploma exam. Well if you go into the diploma with say a mark of 56, and on the Diploma exam you get a 84 final mark, your whole entire course mark will be changed into that 84.
It's kinda weird.
Mon Jun 13, 2005 1:47 am
If that ever happened during the Regents in New York, wow. "Not Yet"......
Mon Jun 13, 2005 1:54 am
Wow- how sad.
I'm glad our society is promoting failure. *sigh*
I'm glad our society is promoting failure. *sigh*
Mon Jun 13, 2005 1:58 am
Not Yet...It doesn't even sound like a grade. It sounds like...it sounds like...
It sounds like something Big Bird would say if a child got an answer wrong on Sesame Street. *scoffs*
It sounds like something Big Bird would say if a child got an answer wrong on Sesame Street. *scoffs*
Mon Jun 13, 2005 2:04 am
AFI_Sorrow wrote:Not Yet...It doesn't even sound like a grade. It sounds like...it sounds like...
It sounds like something Big Bird would say if a child got an answer wrong on Sesame Street. *scoffs*
XDDDDDDD
...
-insert word here so it's not *as* spammish as it seems-
Mon Jun 13, 2005 3:00 am
Thats the stupidest idea I have EVER heard for education. If you fail a test here you get to re-take it but the highest grade you can get is a 75. So if you fail and get an 80 on it, the grade is set at a 75. If you get a 60 on it your grade is a 60. It seems to work pretty well. Also, the "average" person needs maybe 8 or so perfect repitions of something to have it memorized, so I don't know where they got the 28 from, maybe from a special ed class (no I'm not making fun of them, I'm just saying thats probably what happened)
Mon Jun 13, 2005 4:35 am
How funny, my 4th grade writing teacher said that the average person needs to see a word 72 or 73 times to memorize how to spell it. =|
That system... is um... just... yeah. Yeah. I don't understand it. What's wrong with getting A's, B's, C's, and F's? (That's all we have at my school, no D's) If I do bad on a test, I want to know at least how bad I did.
That system... is um... just... yeah. Yeah. I don't understand it. What's wrong with getting A's, B's, C's, and F's? (That's all we have at my school, no D's) If I do bad on a test, I want to know at least how bad I did.