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Originally Posted by Rainger99
Where did you go to school? I think every test I took from kindergarten through college was written with the possibility of a few extra points for class participation.
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Not the way it was done in my parent’s time. In European schools most significant tests and examinations were oral. Time to consider that here. Hard to pretend to know something when you actually don’t in front of the examiner. My PhD defense was oral here.
My impression is that we don’t need to use schools as babysitters for high school and college aged students who don’t want to learn anything. Who resort to cheating in order to pass.They could be out working and beginning a life for themselves. It really starts with grade one, when the education policy is to place every child into grade two next year, they have not passed grade one, they have just gotten a year older. And there is no reason for it to be called “grade two” when all it is - is a collection of 7 year olds - just like in the playground.