Grrr...
I'm kinda pissed off at the moment.
I went home to do a few things and my sister tells me that she went to enrol for her courses for yr 12 and was all but told by the teacher that she was going to fail them. This really irritates me, I mean, I know my sister and what she needs to hear is not that she is going to fail. She doesn't have enough confidence in her brains and therefore doesn't put any effort in for fear of trying and failing. I know she is smart enough to do it if she just put the time and the effort in but if people tell her she isn't going to succeed then what incentive is there to put the effort in. Grrr...
I went home to do a few things and my sister tells me that she went to enrol for her courses for yr 12 and was all but told by the teacher that she was going to fail them. This really irritates me, I mean, I know my sister and what she needs to hear is not that she is going to fail. She doesn't have enough confidence in her brains and therefore doesn't put any effort in for fear of trying and failing. I know she is smart enough to do it if she just put the time and the effort in but if people tell her she isn't going to succeed then what incentive is there to put the effort in. Grrr...
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Yeah, some teachers can be total... down-putters, shall we say. Encouragement always does way better for a student than dissing them (especially to their face!), I mean who knows how well they can improve in (a) subject/s? I know of kids who when they put their minds to it became absolutely brilliant at a subject they'd previously been crap at, especially if they already had the latent ability.
I think you get "aaaaaaawww" points for older-brotherly concern :D Some brothers could take a hint from that... :P
A teacher told me once that the most I would get in her subject was a B - and that's if I really applied myself (it was Maths), but I'd most likely just get a pass! So I figured - if I'm not going to go very well, there's no point trying from the start!! So I didn't try at all and would've actually failed the paper if it weren't for the stupid system that scaled me up 14% to pass!!
BTW Kuddos, don't You love the incentive that kids have to staying in school. BTW NCEA style schooling was tried in the US and Britian, so NZ decided to try it. However, those countries have now reverted back to their old systems as it didn't work.
- What do You do when Your a teacher and kids say that they're going to pass and in all reality, You know that fewer and fewer people pass each year (a truth in agriculture)?
- School cert was weighted so that 50% pass and 50% fail. Most teachers only let people with a pass get through to sixth form where the pool of marks were mostly passes, so most people in 6th form pass.
- Bursary was a new exam, but most people could pull off a bursary as by 7th form many non-academics had left and bursary was calculated from all Your subjects (You tended to choose subjects in which You passed).
- Under NCEA, in 5th form only about 50% pass and then continue the subject, in 6th form only about 50% of them pass and then continue the subject and in 7th form only about 50% pass. Aka 12.5% of 5th formers will get to 7th form and pass.
J
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