[etni] Fw: re: school grade, and so on
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- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 09:26:07 +0200
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From: Linda Kuras Mizrahi - lindakm09@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: school grade, and so on
Without going into any details, I had brought up the idea of doing away with
this ridiculous yearly grade, commonly known as a magen.. ETNI even started
a poll because of my emails on this topic, which showed the great majority
of English teachers in favor of doing away with this.
What are we going to do about it??????
Linda Kuras Mizrahi
Jennifer wrote:
> I would like to say something about the school grade, protecting
hard-working weak students, helping people with learning disabilities and so
on.
With all due respect to Dr. Sela, life is hard, and when she had to take her
driving test, nobody gave her any accomodations, and she did it in the end.
My dyslexic daughter got all the accomodations she needed and deserved, but
in real life she must still struggle with her reading problems.
Life is not necessarily fair in its distribution of brains and talent.
Students learn in order to acquire knowledge.(Or no, as the case may be).
If we have created an education system where pupils don't come to class, let
them stay away, and succeed or fail without any other grade than that they
get in their final examinations. Most countries do not give marks that are
included in the grade of a final external exam.
Doing away with this grade can only benefit teachers; no more pressure from
principals and parents. And create an exam that really tests the knowlege
of the language. And allow teachers to teach the language; give the pupils,
particularly those whose knowlege isn't up to the standard of most
literature, the tools that will eventually allow them to get there.
And while I am ranting, please let me rant at the universities and colleges,
which are making money, hand over fist, from these same students with a weak
knowlege of English. I seem them, amongst other places, where I coach
voluntarily, at a centre for Ethiopian immigrants. It's not that they
aren't extremely intelligent and hard working, but it is difficult to start
building a house from the third floor. They are missing foundations. They
don't get that from the university courses! Wealthier students just give
their tasks to private teachers to do, and somehow, (one wonders how) get
through the exam and go on to the next level, at I believe, 3000 sh. a pop.
Our pupils need to learn English; some are more tallented than others at
languages. Most can acquire a good working knowlege in the end, if the
teachers are allowed to teach.
By all means help learning disabled students, but we should be very careful
who gets accomodations. We have all seen the chaos that has come about with
the present situation.
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