Comment by eudamoniac
Comment by eudamoniac 2 days ago
It's an aversion to giving bad grades to the inevitable bulk of students who just won't read it.
Comment by eudamoniac 2 days ago
It's an aversion to giving bad grades to the inevitable bulk of students who just won't read it.
You have the principal actors reversed. Teachers would generally love to fail more students. It is the administration that prevents or disincentivizes it.
Grades are a yardstick merely for which district gets more prestige and funding. There is absolutely no incentive for anyone with authority to fail bad students. Reprimands or terminations result from a teacher giving consistently below average grades.
There is no real way for teacher to check whether I read the book or not. People who read books regularly fail trivia tests and people who did not read them can quick read "about the book" analysis off web and call it a day.
And crutially, my inclination to finish assigned book and my willingness to read books in general are unrelated. A kid that reads a lot wont neceasary enjoy and finish assigned books - I know I skipped quite a lot of them.
If your premise is that there is no way to test knowledge, then I can see how you might not want to assign books to be read, but I think there are ways to test knowledge and that reading a book should result in knowledge of the book.
something still changed; i've been in classes where the bulk of the students got bad grades and that never stopped the instructor from handing them out.
if we use grades as a yardstick for elementary progress and efficacy then you'd think it would be a bigger deal if a single cog in the system decided to systematically add inaccuracy to the measure simply because a failing student irks them.