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Chat & Social => The Bar - General Chat => Topic started by: datalas on July 19, 2005, 22:34:00

Title: Well it had to happen
Post by: datalas on July 19, 2005, 22:34:00

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4697461.stm

I'm lost for words ....

sorry, I mean I'm vocabulaically deffered

Title: Well it had to happen
Post by: Budgie on July 19, 2005, 23:45:01

So, if you can't "fail" an exam then I assume you also can't "pass" one either so what's the point?

Remind me to bring this to the attention of MOT examiner next time I take the car in!!  :(scared):

Title: Well it had to happen
Post by: Andy the Landy on July 19, 2005, 23:50:47

Heard it on radio today - ridiculous - kids are too soft these days, bring back National Service

Title: Well it had to happen
Post by: TULL on July 20, 2005, 00:04:35

Total and utter rubbish, as a teacher and ex accademic ive seen education falling appart for years tests eg O levels getting easier pass rates getting higher, so now educationally challenged people shouldnt fail ?
Where is the value of the exam ? why bother with SATs the list goes on, its about time people got away from treating everybody with kid gloves, call it how it is . Education is in a mess,

Title: Well it had to happen
Post by: Range Rover Blues on July 20, 2005, 00:35:45

What about some praise for the pupils who manage success without deferment?  If we continually lower the standards to that of the lowest common denominator how can we expect to remain one of the world's leading counties?

Bring back technical college, if pupils can't suceed in accedemia let them learn the value of a good, honest vocation.  I think part of the reason we have probelms in schools is this myth that all pupils can be educated the same way and to the same standard.  By the time exams come around the damage is done.

Title: Well it had to happen
Post by: gords on July 20, 2005, 00:37:16

Failing, learning from it and doing better next time is how life is!

Non competitive sports days ... now there's another stupid idea :evil: Somebody does win, somebody does come last!

All it's going to do is generate soft, lazy, sponging lay-abouts :evil:

I, for one, will be doing my utmost to make my children competitive and have the desire to suceed and "do better". I don't want them living at home when they've grown up :wink:

Title: Well it had to happen
Post by: Bob696 on July 20, 2005, 06:55:04

Yes, it is bonkers and it makes no ones life any easier. When a child knows they will get 'something' at the end it removes their incentive to try, they then become a discipline problem and effect all the other children in the class.

Currently the goverment has a policy of spreading the misery around (insisting that each school takes its share of malcontents) rather than dealing with the problem. Diluting the problem in this way makes it appear smaller than it actualy is.

Title: Well it had to happen
Post by: lowey on July 20, 2005, 08:46:00

So we offroaders or mudclubbers do not get hurt feelings or egos shattered I guess when we have (on the rare occasion of course :oops: ) a failed hillclimb.......

From now on it will be designated 'A Deferred Success Hillclimb'   8)

Title: Well it had to happen
Post by: TimM on July 20, 2005, 09:34:48

And in a similar manner getting stuck somewhere will be 'Defered progress'

I can see it now: "Whilst greenlaning this morning I made it through xyz pass without getting stuck once, I had a little deferred progress and the 1/4 mile route took some 8 hours."

Tim. :evil: