Thursday, June 7, 2012

Grade 9 Continues, There is a Vacation, and Grade 9 Continues

What was the purpose?  Ten months.  If we didn't train ourselves to pay attention, to let it sink in, what was the purpose?  A 100% on a test will not be important ten years later.  What is the purpose for a test?  It is an attempt to help students learn various pieces of information to prepare them for a job and to get them said job.  A 100% on a test which was crammed and forgotten will not be important.  A 75% is more beneficial if there was a piece of information taken out of it, no matter how small.  If students don't take something out of a test, an assignment, etc. then this attempt made by teachers, the government, and other people of the sort isn't a productive attempt. 

Grade 9 "discontinues", grade 10 "begins".  Putting these grades in categories doesn't change what they are.  Two months of vacation gives students more trust that there is a difference.  It isn't different.  I "passed" part 9/12 of the same thing.  The correct thing to say is "grade 9 continues, there is a vacation, and grade 9 continues."

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