November 17th, 2008
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November 17th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
THANK YOU! THIS is the problem. Entitlement.
November 23rd, 2008 at 2:01 pm
Great comic man, thumbs up!
November 26th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
don’t we already have this? I believe it’s called grading on a curve?
(you know, “everyone bombed the test? OK! the top 5 people who failed now get an A!”)
November 28th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
Great Comic. Haha
@Brianna: Grading on a curve is absolutely not a bailout. The vast majority of the time if the low grades were unexpected is because the teacher failed to teach the subject correctly. A good teacher does not have their entire class fail on a subject she taught well. The other thing that happens is that many teachers will fill a test with hard questions and then curve the grades upward to get a better picture of the class. Tests are more accurate when they’re not forced to conform to the ridiculous only >90% is an A. That forces the test to be filled with at least a fair portion of give-away questions to reach anything close to that percentage
December 1st, 2008 at 1:34 am
have you been a student for-freaking-ever or what? why don’t you hurry up and graduate and get a job you useless cad. and by the way. i love that poem. i hate your blog
December 12th, 2008 at 3:35 am
Here at US, the collegeboard encourages ALL high school students to take Advanced Placement, college-level, classes. My AP physics passing rate has dropped from 90 % to 20% since the open enrollment. Yet, blinded by false self-esteem, students become upset, and parents start hovering around using all channels to try to get better grades.
Half of my pre-AP students struggle to solve equations with one variable….. Half of my AP students are failing. Those who are failing cannot even remember which one is Newton’s first law, let along analyze anything.
I do not curve to give them delusion….
What is wrong is the concept of equal ability in US. Equal opportunity is great; equal right is wonderful, equal IQ is just dumb. No Child Left Behind policy is not realistic……
What is wrong is US high schools are full of education major teachers, who cannot get the subjects in depth. I’ve been enough conferences and meeting, and no longer surprised by science teachers’ incompetency.
The emphasized focus on the lower 25% low performance students has cost the education a big toll. Ignoring the high level students and leave them with no challenge is not going to help the US future…..