Its funny, when I make friends with somebody now or indeed over the last decade, someboodys maths results has never once come up.
On a serious note, I agree the system is flawed it reminds me of business lowering their prices to win the market. What happens is competiors lowwer their prices to be able to compete. Now everyone in the market is the same as they were before but everyone is making less money. A lose lose senario. Marks in exams are the same, the more everyone works hard, the harder the hardest workers have to work and forgo everyting else in their lives to keep up. Would it not be better to have a pass mark where everybody could pass rather than having 30% that have to fail?
A very interesting concept! Thanks. I plan to explore how foundational passes could help unlock the creativity and passions of students. In my boarding school article, I wrote:
"People will say that without these grades everything falls apart, but here’s a thought, make exams foundational not difficult and make young people differentiate themselves in more inventive ways, like a personality and interests and experience."
Its funny, when I make friends with somebody now or indeed over the last decade, someboodys maths results has never once come up.
On a serious note, I agree the system is flawed it reminds me of business lowering their prices to win the market. What happens is competiors lowwer their prices to be able to compete. Now everyone in the market is the same as they were before but everyone is making less money. A lose lose senario. Marks in exams are the same, the more everyone works hard, the harder the hardest workers have to work and forgo everyting else in their lives to keep up. Would it not be better to have a pass mark where everybody could pass rather than having 30% that have to fail?
A very interesting concept! Thanks. I plan to explore how foundational passes could help unlock the creativity and passions of students. In my boarding school article, I wrote:
"People will say that without these grades everything falls apart, but here’s a thought, make exams foundational not difficult and make young people differentiate themselves in more inventive ways, like a personality and interests and experience."