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o_0 · **Posted:** Sun Jun 12, 2005 11:50 pm

Dawn2 wrote:

o_0 wrote:

Slight clarification.

It will not be affecting the whole state of Florida, only Pinellas County.

It will be each's county's decision to institute this.

HOWEVER...

I found out they are doing this all over the United States, not just in Florida.

._. Infecting counties one by one.

If this turns out to be a joke, I will come to Florida and strangle you. Because that last thought... that it's coming all over... made me cry.

Unless my mum and several Internet sources are all playing a practical joke on me, I'm telling the truth. ._.

DiscordantNote · **Posted:** Mon Jun 13, 2005 12:39 am

Kyra wrote:

I really don't think that the education board people would do anything that utterly stupid. That's just... completely lame. "Let's make under-achievers feel better about themselves!" Y'know, there's a way to do that already. It's called giving them the help they need instead of taking money away from education.

*waves Canada flag*

Hmm...my last band trip in canada was quite fun, so maybe moving there once I'm out of college (going in for music education) isn't a bad idea. I wouldn't want to use that method as a teacher, for reasons already stated in the topic.

Xil · **Posted:** Mon Jun 13, 2005 12:45 am

Ahh, the joys of living in Canada.

I like our systems, with the exclusion of BC, they're pretty simple to understand.

Sock · **Posted:** Mon Jun 13, 2005 12:46 am

That's completely idiotic. I'm hoping our district will be intelligent enough not to do this.

Yoshi · **Posted:** Mon Jun 13, 2005 1:28 am

Xil wrote:

Ahh, the joys of living in Canada. :D

I like our systems, with the exclusion of BC, they're pretty simple to understand.

Ah yes, the BC education system. >_> I hate the system we have now... Our minister of education made a complicated new system up with vague and unspecific instructions and very demanding requirements for students, then she "resigned" promptly after that. Gah.

I envy the rest of Canada.

Pokemon Kid · **Posted:** Mon Jun 13, 2005 1:38 am

I LOOOOOOVE living in Canada.

That. Idea. Is. Horrible.

Blk Mage · **Posts:** 1832 **Joined:** Mon May 31, 2004 7:00 am

Yes, go Alberta with the wonderful Grade 3,6,9, and 12 provincal exams while the rest of Canada doesn't have provincal exams.-.-

Pokemon Kid · **Posted:** Mon Jun 13, 2005 1:42 am

What, you mean EQAO?

ahoteinrun · **Posted:** Mon Jun 13, 2005 1:46 am

Blk Mage wrote:

Yes, go Alberta with the wonderful Grade 3,6,9, and 12 provincal exams while the rest of Canada doesn't have provincal exams.-.-

Ah... good old Diploma exams. *amused*

Albertas systems mucked too.
If you graduate (as in get a HS diploma) and then retake a HS course or take a new one after you get it that involves writing a Diploma exam. Well if you go into the diploma with say a mark of 56, and on the Diploma exam you get a 84 final mark, your whole entire course mark will be changed into that 84.
It's kinda weird.

(*Dranzer*) · **Posted:** Mon Jun 13, 2005 1:47 am

If that ever happened during the Regents in New York, wow. "Not Yet"......

Matterbug · **Posted:** Mon Jun 13, 2005 1:54 am

Wow- how sad.

I'm glad our society is promoting failure. *sigh*

AFI_Sorrow · **Posted:** Mon Jun 13, 2005 1:58 am

Not Yet...It doesn't even sound like a grade. It sounds like...it sounds like...

It sounds like something Big Bird would say if a child got an answer wrong on Sesame Street. *scoffs*

o_0 · **Posted:** Mon Jun 13, 2005 2:04 am

AFI_Sorrow wrote:

Not Yet...It doesn't even sound like a grade. It sounds like...it sounds like...

It sounds like something Big Bird would say if a child got an answer wrong on Sesame Street. *scoffs*

XDDDDDDD

...

-insert word here so it's not *as* spammish as it seems-

Shadow · **Posted:** Mon Jun 13, 2005 3:00 am

Thats the stupidest idea I have EVER heard for education. If you fail a test here you get to re-take it but the highest grade you can get is a 75. So if you fail and get an 80 on it, the grade is set at a 75. If you get a 60 on it your grade is a 60. It seems to work pretty well. Also, the "average" person needs maybe 8 or so perfect repitions of something to have it memorized, so I don't know where they got the 28 from, maybe from a special ed class (no I'm not making fun of them, I'm just saying thats probably what happened)

LaceyJade · **Posts:** 571 **Joined:** Fri Nov 05, 2004 5:40 pm

How funny, my 4th grade writing teacher said that the average person needs to see a word 72 or 73 times to memorize how to spell it. =|

That system... is um... just... yeah. Yeah. I don't understand it. What's wrong with getting A's, B's, C's, and F's? (That's all we have at my school, no D's) If I do bad on a test, I want to know at least how bad I did.

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