Based on this logic, I would have just filled in A and put a little star next to the letter.Hunde Des Krieg post=18.73273.798954 said:
making a mockery of the education system
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When I was in first grade they gave out all these crappy spelling/language tests to find our reading level.
Mine was 16. Felt really good about that, then realized anyone half literate could manage at the least an age of 11. Also heard recently that my country has lowered the difficulty of the HSC's (SAT's I think to Americans, no idea for elsewhere) because so many kids were getting low marks or failing.
Mine was 16. Felt really good about that, then realized anyone half literate could manage at the least an age of 11. Also heard recently that my country has lowered the difficulty of the HSC's (SAT's I think to Americans, no idea for elsewhere) because so many kids were getting low marks or failing.
I don't intentionally make a mockery out of the school system, but in second grade, I corrected the teacher on the spelling of "rhinoceros" (she forgot the h), and in high school, without exception, I would be bored for 2-3 weeks of English class, because the teacher would assign the first two chapters, and I'd get carried away and read the entire book in one sitting. Of course, with "Catcher in the Rye" that was because I hated that book and wanted to get it out of the way quickly, but my point still stands.
I can't fault many of the responses on this thread, simply because the standardized tests (and the 10% of book information that is actually relevant to your life) is honestly boring as hell, and probably completely unrelated to what you actually wanted to do in life- one of the reasons I chose to teach music. It isn't a class everyone needs four years of to graduate, and isn't restricted to catering to the lowest common denominator (as most NCLB courses are). Most people need only two credits of Fine Arts to graduate high school and maybe one credit for middle school (just please, if you are stuck in a music class you don't want to be in, do both you and the teacher a favor and change your schedule). I also believe that there are too many people out there teaching that have no knowledge of how to handle a classroom (or today's student). But I digress.
I vaguely remember the argument made to me (on one of my previous posts) that a teacher's personal opinions, beliefs, and rationalizations do not belong in the classroom. If I am forcing a student to adopt MY views on an issue or face academic repercussions, than that is true. But I believe half of the failure of the education system at the very core IS this enforced censorship on the teacher.I never was sure about this until April 13, 2006. Sitting in my band class one day, realizing that Proposition 4437 (the one that makes being in the United States without documentation a criminal act) had been passed by one of the Congressional Houses, and that many of my Mexican-American students were about to walk out of class to join protests at the Bridge of the Americas and the Chamizal Memorial Park, I scrapped a band rehearsal in order to give a question/answer session on this issue. Surprisingly, almost all of my students in that class decided to stay. My students, many of them being either 1st generation Americans or immigrants themselves, were all too willing to share their thoughts, opinions, and questions about this particular issue. With me being "White", my students were immediately inquisitive about MY feelings and opinions on illegal immigration. Once we cut past the typical one-liners for/against illegal immigration, I was able to teach them the counter-arguments and counter beliefs on a particular issue that they would otherwise not be exposed to in their day to day lives.
Stuff that I used to see in school that should be brought back:
-I had a teacher who was Muslim in third grade. She taught us a small section on Islam during Ramadan. We had a small class party the day after Ramadan ended. Not because we were being converted to Islam, but because she wanted to share the best of her culture with us.
-I had a teacher who was Eastern Orthodox- she brought homemade baclava to class during Christmas. It was so awesome- I had never tasted it before (and no student is allowed to be served any food not from the cafeteria during school hours nowadays).
-I had a Hindu math teacher in 6th grade- her first lesson was a question and answer session about herself, India, her travels, her culture, etc. (She had fallen in love with an American soldier and though he had not converted to Hinduism, she had married him under the conception that she would practice and their children would be raised in the Hindu faith).
None of these people were my social studies/religion teachers, but yet they taught through the sharing of their own personal beliefs.
I vaguely remember the argument made to me (on one of my previous posts) that a teacher's personal opinions, beliefs, and rationalizations do not belong in the classroom. If I am forcing a student to adopt MY views on an issue or face academic repercussions, than that is true. But I believe half of the failure of the education system at the very core IS this enforced censorship on the teacher.I never was sure about this until April 13, 2006. Sitting in my band class one day, realizing that Proposition 4437 (the one that makes being in the United States without documentation a criminal act) had been passed by one of the Congressional Houses, and that many of my Mexican-American students were about to walk out of class to join protests at the Bridge of the Americas and the Chamizal Memorial Park, I scrapped a band rehearsal in order to give a question/answer session on this issue. Surprisingly, almost all of my students in that class decided to stay. My students, many of them being either 1st generation Americans or immigrants themselves, were all too willing to share their thoughts, opinions, and questions about this particular issue. With me being "White", my students were immediately inquisitive about MY feelings and opinions on illegal immigration. Once we cut past the typical one-liners for/against illegal immigration, I was able to teach them the counter-arguments and counter beliefs on a particular issue that they would otherwise not be exposed to in their day to day lives.
Stuff that I used to see in school that should be brought back:
-I had a teacher who was Muslim in third grade. She taught us a small section on Islam during Ramadan. We had a small class party the day after Ramadan ended. Not because we were being converted to Islam, but because she wanted to share the best of her culture with us.
-I had a teacher who was Eastern Orthodox- she brought homemade baclava to class during Christmas. It was so awesome- I had never tasted it before (and no student is allowed to be served any food not from the cafeteria during school hours nowadays).
-I had a Hindu math teacher in 6th grade- her first lesson was a question and answer session about herself, India, her travels, her culture, etc. (She had fallen in love with an American soldier and though he had not converted to Hinduism, she had married him under the conception that she would practice and their children would be raised in the Hindu faith).
None of these people were my social studies/religion teachers, but yet they taught through the sharing of their own personal beliefs.