Heres this week of school I just had summed up Monday - off Tuesday - huge u.s history project due Friday *anxiety and stress for the next few days* Weds - geometry test Thurs - physics test Friday- intro to buisness test and presentation
@@teamatfort444 For most test though I dont put effort cause I'm not gonna let a teacher just give me work and test me non stop. Theyer job is to teach us not make us work. If they truly cared on theyer student they would instead of saying "you better know this for test" but rather say "this test will not effect you and it will only help let me know what you need help on so you can catch up"
Many times while working on an assignment, English assignments specifically, I've had the thought "Should I write what I want to write, or should I write what the teacher wants to hear?" I usually chose the latter because I knew that way I would get a better grade.
Exactly and that isnt education. your grade then refelects how well you know how to play the game. you werent learning to express your own opinions and you werent growing as a person.
Well if the assignment is to write to a prompt than you have to write to the prompt, and if the assignment is about sentence structure or grammar than there is only one correct way to do that as well. Unless the assignment is creative writing than you cant just write what ever you want. However, if it is a creative writing class and you feel that you have to write "what the teacher wants to hear" than you either have a bad teacher or lack the ability to explain your work to your teacher as to why you made some choices over others. Most of the time the only thing your teacher is really grading is sentence structure, grammar, spelling, and if you are able to follow a narrative structure.
Here's to everyone who's GPA did not reflect either their passion for or capacity for learning. Here's to everyone who got pushed under the bus by a one-size-fits-all system that does not focus on individual learning styles. *Here's to educational media on TH-cam* which rekindled a passion for learning math and science, subjects that I was consistently graded poorly in. _**hits subscribe button with conviction*
Elliot Grey I feel that the GPA thing,I mean; I worked so hard for my gpa to the point that I started getting sick due to the stress and I just barely made it to where I wanted it to be at
A+: Amazing. A: Great A-: Still Good B+: Okay B: Maybe a little practice B-: A little more practice C+: Being in the Cs or lower is a bad sign C: You are struggling C-: Almost a D. That ain’t good D+: You need practice! D: This is bad. D-: Have fun telling your parents you got a D- F: F***
My system varies per teacher, but I follow a 1 - 5 system with decimals inbetween. My reactions: 5 (100%) Excellent! 4.75 (95%) Great, I'm happy! 4.5 (90%) Not bad, not bad. 4.25 (85%) I could've done better. 4 (80%) I ain't happy. 3.75 (75%) Augh, no.... 3.5 (70%) Well, I am dead. 3.25 (65%) That's terrible! My mark is going down! 3 (60%) My parents, they'll hate this. 2.75 (55%) Extra Credit, now! 2.5 (50%) What? WHAT?! 0 -> 2.25 (0 -> 45%) *Cries*
In my opinion, grades are a very dangerous thing. Especially as a person my an anxiety order from a very young age if I didn't get at least an 80 I would have a mental breakdown and with how much society relies on grade to advance to the next level (elementary grades determine which high schools you can get into and high school grade determine which universities you could get into) I always had a pressure to be perfect. One wrong move could ruin my entire life. THAT is what it felt like and that not only sucks all the joy out of learning but puts unnecessary pressure on parents, students, and teachers.
Andrew Li I truly believe that the entire education system needs to change. I am not going to sit here and act like I have all the answers but I do work in daycares with very young children and they have this innate desire to learn. So what happens between age 2-4 and high school where you have kids hating their classes and being overly stressed out. I also respect and understand the need for everyone to have a base level of knowledge before moving on to the next level. Maybe the solution is instead of having a separate grade for each year kids are split up into larger age ranges and given more freedom to explore the things that interest them without grades with maybe a test to see where they are at every couple of years. Or maybe schools could just not have as much emphasis or grades. Send home progress reports that just outline the child’s strengths are areas of improvement and they have to meet certain learning goals to move forward.
Andrew Li the way the education system is set up it is not even accurately calculating how much or well you understand information it is just testing how well you can store information in your short term memory and then regurgitate it on a test. So if it is not accurately doing its job in the first place then we really don’t need them. And you can show value by your experience, having a portfolio, or answering questions designed to measure your fit for a position
Andrew Li from my experience I have never had a job where I have been asked for a gpa or what my grades were. From my experience the only purpose for grades is to get into a good high school and then get into a good post secondary. After you graduated no one cares about the actual marks they just care if you have a degree. Kids and parents stress over grades because they want their kids to get into a good college. I do think grades should be eliminated in elementary school. I think that may really easy up on social pressure. And even if you to continue to mid term and final grades that could be a possibility too. I think the main problem is that when you get a letter grade on each and every assignment you being to solely focus of that letter grade you miss the bigger picture and like I said school grades aren’t accurate in the slightest. I am actually a great example of the inaccuracies of grades. I have a learning disability and part of my learning disability makes it very hard for me to spell. It took my teachers a very long time to figure this out because I aced every spelling test. They were very confused by the fact that I could spell a word in a spelling test but if I had to write that word a week later I couldn’t. The difference was that I was able to cram for the spelling tests the night before and regurgitate it on a test the next day but my learning disabilities were preventing me properly understanding the concepts. So I totally see your point about needing a standard or way to know if someone is qualified but if the current system we have isn’t accurate and is causing mental health problem specifically in kids then is it really a system we should keep?
In grade 12 I got the highest mark in the class on several exams, and 30s in more than one of the same courses because I didn't do the coursework. Then in university I got basically every grade imaginable, more Bs than anything but everything else. If you just took my averages you'd get a completely incorrect impression of my overall performance. I've always considered grades to be problematic and not something I wanted to focus on getting but they still end up having an impact. People with low grades end up hating themselves, people with high grades end up expecting too much from themselves and then being disappointed and disillusioned later. The system needs to change.
In some careers you also present your transcripts when in the application process. At least the ones that wait for in person interview let you explain the ups and downs of your grades vs the computer filtering out your application in ones that don't. =S
i completely agree! ever since i started being in aps, if i get lower grades than everyone else or not what i want, it can ruin my entire day. ill have an entire mental fucking breakdown and cry or just belittle myself. ugh i just wanna be done. maybe itll get better when i go to college next year :(
I’ve always been to grateful to my parents for recognizing that I would have a better learning and life experience if they didn’t pressure me on grades. They encouraged me to do my best while also pursuing my extracurricular interests, which ended up paying off, literally, in scholarships, but also in getting into my “reach” school. My experience ended up being a lot like what the girls realized in Booksmart. I even had to overhear a kid viciously, bitterly complaining that he got better grades than me and was soooo much smarter than me in physics and math but got rejected from the university I chose. It wasn’t all based on the numbers, bud. Thanks to my mom and dad, school was positive experience for me, and I really blossomed and thrived even moreso in college. Such an incredible gift they gave me, and I’m so privileged to have had it. Had I been able to have kids, I hope I could maintain their approach and give the same kind of support. Grades are NEVER the *full picture* of a child’s current or future achievements.
Colleges put way too much emphasis on the difference between A, A-, and B+. That's thousands of dollars of scholarships, and even admission, based on whether a teacher believes you should get an A for getting a 95%, 90%, or anywhere in between. As a high school teacher, I can tel you that most of that is arbitrary and only loosely represents real learning.
I agree! I know professors that won't give their students an A on assignments because they fear that it'd cause students to think they don't need improvement.
Wesley Morgan I agree. I was denied a Math Tutoring job in college when I first started because I earned a B in College Algebra and they wanted a B+. I applied a few years later and got the job after getting an A- in Pre-Calc.
Very true. Most of my professors are genuinely concerned about students not doing well. They're willing to get to the heart of the problem and actually work with the student to improve, not just say "you're failing. Fix that."
Albert Einstein wrote, “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
Something needs to be done and this grading or percentage system needs to be changed with descriptive results. Because this grading system has caused many students committ suicide in history, and even depression, etc.
that is really the saddest part becuase no one at any job actually cares what grades you got. they care if you can get the job done and do it well. yes they may care what school you went to but 1 person with a harvard degree who may have gotten ds in every class looks on paper better than a person who got straight As in a school no one has herd of. but you need to get good grade in elementary to get into a good high school and you need good grade in hs to get into college and all these place basically tie a humans self worth to a number or a letter that doesnt even acuatly show their skills that you drive kids to think they are worthless because their strengths dont play to the system
I'm glad you care about your student's well being. All I ever got from my teachers was them complaining about how I was getting low grades, spacing out day-dreaming, and wasting my obvious potential. I got so stressed out by my teachers I eventually just started getting my work done in a fit of terror so everyone would leave me alone. I was having panic attacks every single day by my senior year of high school and I had higher than a 4.0. Fulfilling my sposed potential was costing my mental well-being. The funniest part, my parents never cared one way or another, they only cared that my teachers were complaining. I was bored in school. There was a lot of memorization that was a waste of my time and my teachers never answered my questions. I dogged my 2nd grade teacher for weeks to get her to answer my question once. The question: why do we used both upper case and lower case letters? why not one or the other? what is the purpose? Her answer: that's just how it's done me: But why? Her angrily: just do what your told. Every assignment I turned in over the next several weeks was one sentence all caps next sentence all lower case. She eventually answered my question when it became clear this wasn't going to stop
I believe she wrote the subtitles in first, and then later on when she was recording the video, she decided not to say that part of the script but simply forgot to remove the subtitles.
It’s not always accurate. It tries to sound out what they are saying and puts it on. Like if it was French and the video said “bonjour tu a une bon semaine?” In English captions it might have said “bon jo ur too a own bon sem aine?” I know those aren’t real words but who cares? Obviously u can just edit it
As a teacher, I really prefer the idea of standards based evaluation. That is, you create a list of things a student should be able to accomplish to "pass" the course, and what percentage of these standards must be met to pass. Then you design multiple ways for students to demonstrate they have mastered these standards; tests, assignments, demonstrations, etc. If my student can use at least one of these methods to demonstrate they have mastered each needed skills, then they have finished the class. If not, they have not finished the class and may either keep trying or leave. Part of the issue is to give students multiple ways to demonstrate their mastery of a skill. I have seen students who will consistently fail a written exam but excel on an oral exam, or show great skill on an assignment, but totally bomb a timed essay. Notice that I am not advocating for grades, just simply a certification that a student has mastered enough of the core concepts to be finished with or pass a class. Also, I do think idea of writing narratives sounds great on the surface, but is horrible in practice. I say this as a teacher who had to write narratives on each of my students. Even with only about 30 students a year, I found myself writing out cliches and thinking about how the parents and students would react to what I was writing. Sometimes I would phrase things very delicately to encourage or avoid discouraging a student. And a very combative, unrealistic parent (or administrator worrying about tuition) can influence what you write about their child. One of my principals even went so far as to come up with a cheat sheet, a list of 50 or so positive comments that you could check off, and a smaller amount of things that need to be improved that you also could check off. Then the principal would count your checks marks. If you didn't have enough positive marks or too many negatives you got your cheat sheet back to redo. TLDR: We need standards that can be shown to mastered in multiple ways and to remove some of the subjective judgements.
So, there's the question of what might be best for students, but also the question of what can practically be achieved by the teacher. In any case, I agree.
Yes, that is an important question and I think it has shaped many of our past practices. One of the nice side effects of computer technology is that it can free treachers from some of the paperwork issues and can make it easier to provide multiple methods of presenting and assessing lessons.
As a fellow educator (of university students) you hit the nail on the head. Narratives might work in small seminars with 12 or less students, but it’s unwieldy in anything larger. Standards based is the way to go and it’s more flexible to student needs.
As a middle school teacher, I idealize showing my students that gardes do not equate total value in society. However, with over 100 students and class sizes of 36, efficiency and practicality in measuring achievement needs to be addressed. Otherwise, grade school teachers would never sleep.
A friend of mine had a class this semester that still used grades, but also used a point system where, as long as you did enough work to get 200 points by the end of the semester, you got an A. This rewarded people for doing work earlier on in the semester and made it less stressful for students that messed up an assignment. My friend ended up hitting the 200 point level in the last few weeks of class and was able to opt out of the final and focus on his other exams instead
I had a teacher in 11th grade who said on the first day that she was going to grade us on standards rather than numbers. This was a groundbreaking proposition in the ridiculous college prep high school I went to where all the students, parents, and teachers were obsessed with grades. Originally I was confused and skeptical about this and I also really loved getting grades because throughout my life I based my entire self-worth on my good grades because school was the only thing I ever succeeded in. Anyway her class was one of the most stress free and enjoyable classes that I ever took. She ended up being my favorite teacher in high school and I loved every second of not having to worry about grades for once.
A letter determines how good your memory is. It doesn't determine your intelligence. I'm a resourceful, creative person who likes building and decorating. I'm physically strong, especially for a girl, and don't mind getting my hands dirty. But since I have the memory of a goldfish and actually think about my health, I don't get assigned the letter A.
After 30 years as an engineer, I've just decided to start a new career as a STEM teacher. While I have no worries about teaching STEM, I do have a couple other worries. First is managing a classroom of hormonal students, some of whom will have difficulties outside the classroom that affect learning. Second is providing fair and useful assessments that are more than simple letters or numbers. This video really speaks to me, and has given me much food for thought. Thanks!
Please im a junior in highschool and I found some tips, be more visual when teaching cause many teachers only speak when teaching and rarely show there explanations in a visual way making it hard for visual learners. Also I would speak motive and in a positive voice cause it help make them focus more. Lastley another way for focusing and learning more is to make sure to teach them actively not where they're sitting cause studies show kids with say a spin chair or something they can fidget with or move actively while still focusing can help then feel less trapped in one spot and feel more motivated to focus cause they feel that they have more control of themselves. I myself have even noticed it and I actually have adhd.
@@NickWheeler9559 I also have ADHD and in high school I took up origami and doodling during class so that my hands would have something to do and I could focus a lot more; however, a few teachers would not let me doodle or do origami and in turn, I learned a lot less from their classes as I wouldn't be able to focus and would end up zoning out
Education is the slowest at everything I legit think you could go through an act of Congress faster than the school system and that's an achievement mind you the government isn't known for urgency either.
Math was never my best subject, but I had an amazing professor in college who prioritized learning and self improvement over letter grades. She taught us how to work through the uncomfortable feeling of not understanding the content at first. This is applicable not only to math, but life in general. Moreover, she cared about her students and encouraged us to visit her office hours. She could remember faces and recognize students even in a lecture hall with hundreds of students. I am super grateful to have been in her class.
School is just one big game of trying to get an A. Students that get below that kick themselves because they can't "pass their classes" by getting all A's. Everyone is trying to race to the top,and while doing that,learn pretty much nothing starting from freshman year. Algebra,Trigonometry,Classifyfing,Calculus,its all just a competition between fellow classmates. Later on,in those 12 years of what you learned,you don't know how to pay taxes,bills,invest, buy a house,loan things,and all that you need for a basic lifestyle. Not saying you have to live this way. Colleges accept students with the highest grades/GPA,little do they know,there are smart students that get D's and C's,and even F's,grades only display how much work you do,not how WELL you do.
Grades don't show how much work you do. They show your intellect, especially in higher level classes where homework is below 5%. Most of the time, exams are above 50% and even get to 90%. Clearly, if you knew the subject you would get an A so not being able to is your fault. Everyone is saying that grades measure how well you suck up to your teacher and how it doesn't show how much you know a subject but my existence denies both of these as: 1. I've gotten in A in all the classes my teachers hated me, 2. I know every subject and I've gotten all A's... Srsly why is everyone making excuses to not study and saying grades don't matter
@@asadyamin4867 they literally show how hard you work. Intellect makes it easier, but overall, grades show work ethic. High school is undoubtedly easier than college, yet I have a higher GPA in college than I did in high school. I was just a lazy shit in high school and didn't do anything. Ur statement that it measures intellect is so you can feel good about your grades and validate yourself.
As someone who typically gets good grades, I can tell you the negative effects to self esteem still happen even to the "smart kids" if not more so. In middle school and elementary school, I'd get 4s (out of 4) almost all the time, but then I switched to a private high school with a A-F grade scale, and was not prepared in the slightest. Even though an A- was really good, I cried about it because my parents expected perfection. Even when I would drop everything to do my best on an assignment, I would either do one thing that could vaugely be interpreted as not A+ just because the teacher thought I didn't put the analysis that they wanted or something, or I would get an A+ and my parents would be like "cool". I have stopped caring as much about grades though, as the time I spend just trying to get an A instead of an A- could instead be spent on my passion, video game design
Adelle Oh wow, the same thing kind of happened to me but in reverse. I went to a school from grades 1-4 and I got all As on an A-F - E system. After 4th grade, I moved schools. In fifth grade, they switched to a 1-4 system. 1 - F 2- - D- 2 - D 2+ - D+ 3- - C-, C, C+ 3 - B-, B, B+ 3+ - A-, A 4, Above A I began getting Bs, Cs, and even some Ds, but I didn’t really get that since it was a new system. (The final report card only had 1, 2, and 3)Then, in 6th, which is when I became a middle schooler, they switched back to the letter system. When I got 3 Bs on my report card, I suddenly realized what was wrong.
You know you could still get good grades while enjoying it. The answer is simple: Don't follow the grades, follow the vision of the course. The grades will end up following you.
Fourth grade was the first year we got letter grades. On the first day of school, the teacher explained to us what A, B, C, D, and F meant. I then raised my hand and asked "How come there ain't no 'E'?"
Grades have me so stressed that once I got a C and had a mental breakdown because I thought I would be a failure and be begging on the streets for spare money if I didn't get at least a B on all report cards. Probably would still have one today if that were to happen, and that was almost a year and a half ago.
A "C" in high school algebra and "C"s in college classes on government and music history (yes, music history) were the hardest-earned grades in all my years in school.
It is good to hear that institutes are finally trying something different, the current grading system is a bit like telling a patient "well, you sick." instead of suggesting what is actually the wrong and/or what to do about it.
Hey can I ask, in American schools are the kids born in January the oldest in their grade level and December the youngest, or is it those born in September that is the oldest and August that is the youngest. For example lets say someone is born in 31st December 2004 and someone born in 1st Janaury 2005, the kid born in Janaury will be the oldest in their grade level because they are born in the first month while December is the youngest because they are born in the last month. Or is it those born in September that is the oldest like lets say someone born on 31st August 2006 and someone born on 1st September 2006, will those 2 kids be in the same grade level or will they be in different grade levels. Because I kinda heard that kids born in August will be the youngest and September will be the oldest but some people say kids born in Janaury will be the oldest and those born in December will be the youngest in their grades, so which one is correct?
As a mexican US grades always confused me. All those letters and plus and minus signs... Here we score 0-10 (or 100. Just move the decimal point at teacher's will). 5.9 or below and you falied. THAT SIMPLE
I feel like American system is way easier than that. A=Best Passing (90-100) B=Good Passing (80-89) C=Average Passing (70-79) D=Barely Passed (60-69) F=FAILED(0-59) Idk maybe since I’m used to the American system it’s easier but I feel like it is compared to the whole decimal thing. Like you said 5. Something is failed what about the rest? Obviously it’s Passing but how much did you pass? Did you barely make it or did you work really hard and did very well?
Darn, My school just randomly states what they think, not grades... E- excellent S-satisfactory N-Needs improvement U- I don’t know, but you KNOW you did bad...
my dad didnt even try to help me when i had bad grades, he just grounded me for weeks - dad how am i gonna do homework? he didnt let me. i basically had to keep an A, B or C or else i lost my computer, aka the thing i do HOMEWORK on most of the time.
If this happens again, have a conference with a teacher, school counselor, principal, or staff member who you know well and trust will help you with your issue.
@@hoenn4ever829 well the problem is the entertaining. You don't get that if you don't do well in school. Todays kids feel entitled feel as though you don't have to work for those electronics you love so much. Your only job at this moment is to focus on school do your best. If ylu can focus on your xbox games you can focus on that school work. Entertainment things is a luxury its not something parents have to give you. Own your mistakes and makes things right do what is expected of you so you can be the best YOU!
lady o homework helps the kid do fucking better fam. They need a pc/laptop to do the homework, take it back after if you don’t want them to have a source of entertainment. *God the stupidity of some people* .
Grades dictate so much although it mainly tests your memorizing ability and testing skills. A students appear to hate learning yet B/C students love it: they explore other areas and don’t focus solely on what is taught in class. The real world is not perfect so why do grades have to be?
You did skip over the reason that "E" is not in there, I was a little disappointed at that. One factor of culture that I've always found fascinating is Japan's emphasis on grades, which is even greater than ours.
TWIOCH : And that supports her statement that grades promote conformity. In Japan, good grades and passing entrance exams to get into prestigious universities help you to enter a good company. It doesn't matter much what your major is as you could be given any sort of job (exception being highly specialized jobs such as research scientist). You become a good cog in the wheel. But, as she said, the ones that really make a difference are the super creative or gifted ones that somehow break past the hammers of conformity.
Just theorizing here, but if you get an F it's easy to forge into an E. And an F takes less strokes to make than an E. Perhaps that caution and 'laziness' can explain some of it?
As a teacher grades have always been a tricky thing. On one hand you don't want students to be grade crazy and equate their self-worth with their GPA. On the other hand, you also want them to excel. Without grades learning becomes optional and students will just procrastinate.
Ken Gonzales That’s interesting...I feel like a lot of students are curious, and want/like to learn, however once you attach grades to it, we lose the motivation to do so...and with more international competition and expectations from others (read: parents/family), we unintentionally end up associating our worth with our grades....I personally don’t care about grades, I love learning, but I only care out of anxiety....and, I think that having grades won’t change whether or not students will procrastinate...
Raegan Mira A Agreed. I procrastinate all the time and somehow still have all As thanks to 5 easy classes, and my internal and external pressure to do well in math.
Raegan Mira A I feel like competition discourages learning and makes people less likely to take risks out of fear of offending their parents or getting a bad grade.
A= bragging rights and honor rule B=Acceptable but do better C=Improve or we are pulling out of this school( my parents actually did and I miss my friends) D= You are moving to you aunts house. ( quote from my dad follows) "If you don't value the education we are paying for you then someone else can take care of it. I work 7 days a week to pay for your education and you obviously don't care!" F= I am moving schools and living at my aunts house. ( He is serious that's why I don't show him my F's)
What I hate about the grading system, is that it doesn’t take into account your rainy days. When you go into this state of stress you struggle more and more, it feels impossible to get a second chance in school, you let one thing slip through your fingers and it ruins you. I’ve been dealing with a lot of stress and almost depression recently and I’m getting Cs. My parents are disappointed, schools make it look like I’m an idiot all because I can’t balance 7 classes at once. I get it, I messed up. But how are students supposed to learn that pursuit will get you where you need to be if you don’t give them a chance? Are you just going to let us fail? Now I have three Cs before 1st semester finals week. And I can’t do anything about it.
My high school changed our grading system my senior year, each subject had four competencies that we were “graded” on from a rubric, which was on a scale of 1-4. Our grade evolved as the class went on. So, you might start getting a 1-2 on assignments but as the course went on if you were improving the competency number would go up. Instead of averaging those grades each “assessment “ changed our grade. So, our final would be our final grade. The only class that year I had a test for a final was my math course the others were all projects that went along with our competencies for that class.
while on the subject of school, even though its kind of new, you should cover where the idea for common core came from. for most of us whove been out of school, the idea of it just seems confusing. ive only seen a few examples from my nieces homework, it doesnt make sense that they should force these kids to go about their answers through the longest means possible. i still remember back in school, math was one of the few classes i did really well in. but what kept me from moving to more advanced classes was that i never showed my work. i refused to use a calculator and always did the stuff in my head. i always got in trouble for that... now as an adult ive been trained to use calculators, and i can barely do basic multiplication and division in head anymore. school trained me well...
Shawn Hollern this would be a good topic for a follow up episode since I've seen a few other comments on the common core. I'll keep this one in mind for future episode topics, especially since the second piece of this would definitely be focused on how students learn and retain information. Thanks for watching!
Ack I always hated when they made us practice *exclusively* one way of doing something just because. Like you know that decision with the tens on the side? I have no idea how to do that now, and neither does anyone else so what a waste of time in 3rd grade.
New Zealand switched to NCEA years ago, a system where students would get descriptions such as achieved, rather than a percentage grade. It meant their overall performance wasn't so dependant on exams, but some students found they weren't as well prepared to the exam culture in university as a result.
I feel like one thing that would make grades for efficient is if semesters weren't the end all be all you know? Like give kids the time and help they need, a semester should be for reporting and setting a trajectory not just "get in all your work and do your finals or fail"
My math teacher does standards based grading and it’s amazing. I have 100% in the class, and I actually focus on understanding the material. I stress more about a regents health class than my CALCULUS 3 class. I also took AP Calc BC with this teacher and 50% of her students get fives on the exam. Standards over percentages!!!
I liked this video a lot, but it was quite USA focussed. There are so many different grading systems! In the Netherlands a scale of 1 to 10 is generally used. Could you do a video on the origin of primary education?
I watched my school slowly fall from teaching to standardized testing within 4 years. At first, it felts freer. We did more projects rather than tests and it felt like teachers had more control over what they wanted to teach. Year two, it got more restrained. Things weren't as free and tests increased. There was a noticeable shift with the teachers' happiness. The third year, everything went sour. All of my teachers were complaining daily about activities they loved doing with their students that they were forced to replace with tests. This is the year we almost got a standardized test for every single class in the high school. It was very bad and we barely skirted out of it. Year four just felt empty. You could tell that the teachers didn't like to teach anymore. Even the good teachers were overstressed trying to figure out how to best teach with this unceasing testing curriculum. There was a drop in the drive for the students' work ethic. I was one of those students. While I still graduated honors, I lost my passion for learning in school. I would go to school, chug down information, regurgitate it a few days later during the quiz/test, then promptly forget it. It's time for a change. For our future's sakes.
SAME! My parents don’t care about my mind or problems or who I hang out with, but if I have a B in anything but elective or PE, I’m a criminal. Especially math, my parents don’t care much for language or history. Science is a free grade since my teacher gives free points for no reason.
Dealing with LDs, I've never been able to make good grades. I was tested by specialists and it's not that I wasnt knowledgeable. I always just didn't do well in the standard classroom. I would study anytime I wasn't eating or sleeping, and still made bad grades. If I made a C, my parents where happy for me. When we moved to another school the councilor told me I would have a better time if I was held back a year, which was a terrible idea, and let me to drop out because even the teachers would hate having me in their class. I wanted to learn, but the system isn't made for all learning types. People too often fall through the cracks.
This was very informative ! but it is The Origin of Everything, I was expecting something a bit less American-Centric :P In France, grading history is different, and we have notes on a 0-10 scale at primary school since 1866, and there was systems before. Also, Japanse is on 0-100, Germany on 0-6... Every country has a different history on the subject. www.slate.fr/story/89081/notes-sur-20-ecole It's nice anyway that you take the time to report the relationship between grades and student interest/learning. :)
What about A+ student like mark who created Facebook while he was studying in Harvard . straight A student can also have creative thinker by the way. you are kinda motivating kids not to work hard and study and get more information from their books when you talk about these uneducated or self taught people you have to clarify that they are an exception.
I'm currently a 7th grader, and my elementary and middle schools both used numbers for our grading system. It's from a scale of 1-4, 1 being the lowest and 4 being the highest. 1 - Below Grade Level 2 - Near Grade Level 3 - Proficient 4 - Advanced To get a 3, you just need to do the bare minimum/what's required. To get a 4, you have to do what's required and then think harder to answer a more challenging question, come up with ideas that connect to the world on a larger scale, or put in extra effort.
I’m going to highschool soon but my elementary school did a proficiency scale instead of letters Emerging: little to no effort. Developing: some effort Proficient: the expected amount of effort Extending: basically if you did extra work.
I like the comment about grades identifying "generalists vs. specialists". I think there is a lot to be said for that. Although if you watch my channel you can probably guess my outlook on school.
As a teacher I often see student putting way too much emphasis on their grades. I work in Sweden where they have a much more open, rubric style grading system that I like more than the US system but I still have kids who would rather get a 0 than try and not get an A.
In school I ALWAYS over stressed with tests. In high school an office worker with enough power hated me (Long story) and she would fail me no matter how good I did (A-B with a C here and there average). When I was 16 I got tired of failing so I dropped out. I went back and the principal and teachers let me sit in class and do the work. I no longer had to worry about test or failing. Learning became FUN. I have a GED with the highest high school education a person can have. And since teachers had college they taught me as much as they remembered, so I have some undocumented college,too. With my children I started educating them by the time they could talk. When they started 1st grade, they were ready for 5th grade. And they started 1st grade at 5, a year early. By 2nd grade, they were used as substitute teachers for all elementary grades. Needless to say, my kids only got A's.
I do think that grades help students to improve their skills, as long as they don't see them as burden and if people can stop judging others by their grades
Kyungsoo Im that’s all fine and good but the thing is. Both points you mentioned apply to students. I stopped caring about my grades in math because i was doing bad in it. Self esteem killer
@@teamatfort444 well i guess, it's different for every person, for me personally, grades help me to improve. Math was also the black hole in my report back in junior high school and because of it i tried harder in learning math, now it gets one of the best score in my report, so idk based on your grades it's up to you to see it as a burden or as a challenge
Yes grades are important, but they cause a lot of stress. One thing I used to have a big problem with was, for example, in math I may understand the concept and get good grades on assignments, but sometimes testing I would get really stresses out and not do so well. I'm only in 7th grade and I'm afraid of the future tests and whole lot of stuff I will have to endure. Also, a good thing colleges some colleges have been doing is that they don't always count all the tests or SAT'S because not everyone are good testers
The grading system is meant to tell you where you are in the class. Everyone is graded not just you and everyone has to go through it. I’ve seen so many comments saying “schools are just tests and memorization” well I’m sorry you are wasting your time. How about you take the time to understand it on your own time. Put in the work, most of histories geniuses didn’t have a teacher to stand over their shoulders and wait for them to understand. The teacher provides materials and it’s up to you if you want to put in the work. I hear people say they want to be a “doctor” or a “lawyer”, yet they struggle with school. That should tell you to either find a different career or suck it up and finish. And to be honest, if it weren’t for grades most of you would be watching Netflix instead of attempting to learn.
It's really hard to want to watch these videos with how insanely biased they are and their intention of pushing an agenda out in front, rather than actually giving the information they claim to give by the title of the video. What it says is, "Why do we get grades in school?" But the real title should be, "Why grading in school is outdated and wrong." I agree with it, but it's just kind of annoying to not be given the actual information I came here for and instead, am given 90% personal views and 10% actual historical information.
Can I make a request? Please pull all the videos into one playlist so I can binge them with ease ;) found this through “its ok to be smart” and am totally loving it. Awesome information and awesome topics. One more small request: I love your enthusiasm but sometimes you talk very quickly and I find myself not being able to retain everything I’d like to. So many awesome information nuggets! Maybe you could slow down the delivery just a teeny bit? Love you girl, can’t wait for more episodes.
It is a fact that A student usually work for B students, and B students work for C students. Have a college degree is no garentee of a career. As time passes, era change our reality. We don't live in the era of yesterday. Grades means that little if at all any more.
I think "it is a fact" is a little strongly worded there. I get what you're saying, but that is just not always true. I work in structural engineering, and I can tell you that every boss I've had either has a PHD or talks shop with those that do. You can't excel in your field if you aren't willing to put in the effort, both physical and mental, and I don't know many failures in high school that went on the suddenly get super motivated.
In college I found a lot of specialization even in within a department. A number of times in my research there were revelations that made me go _WOW!_ Yet when I tried to tell anybody, student or professor, all I got was "eh." "mhm" or at most, "that's nice." Like Neil DeGrasse Tyson, I wanted to shake people CD say, "Don't you understand how awesome that is?" I wanted to join a think tank with other people who also saw awesome things in science and share ideas. And create awesome creations and understand things in a new way. Even on social media I get less than a reaction of "hm."
I always appreciated seeing the overall average percentage score in high school in Alberta and knowing what the weighting of each test and project towards that average was. I always had a very accurate picture of how I was doing and knowing which areas that needed improvement when studying for finals. I also appreciated these marks determined what universities would accept me and not a second arbitrary and useless test like an SAT.
*grade is temporarily A-* Indian parents: “No more netflix, no more phone, no more youtube, no more eating, no more sleeping, no more living in this home if you don’t get your act together”
Our school system is antiquated. It's an embarrassment. We ruin the children's self worth and then wonder why they act out. Too much stress put on them at too young an age!
In Italy we don't have letters for grades, we have numbers (1-10 for elementary school, usually 0-8 for high school, 6 is "sufficient") and judgements for the middle school (excellent, very good, good, sufficient, bad). The high school final exam grades go up to 100 (but when I had mine in 1986 the grades went up to 60). University exams go up to 30 (18 is just enough to pass the exam), and the final university dissertation gets a grade up to 110, Are you confused enough? :)
I'm a former 4.0 and successful entrepreneur who was a large employer. Grades really don't matter in life. Way more important in determining success is ambition (for an entrepreneur) and the ability to get along (for a corporate employee). Pity as I passed on many college subject for fear of not doing well and one really should fail at times in college for you've plenty of time for corrections that are harder to do later in life.
"E is for 'Effort'", my favorite strict terror IT teacher once said. She taught us that effort does nothing until it pays off and make results. It's not F for "Failure" but at least you tried but that doesn't mean you have a finished product...and nobody wants half-assed, half-baked products. She challenged us to become better and more persistent. Can't thank her enough.
Even though I get good grades, I still don’t know what I am doing sometimes in my courses. I go to an American high school, and I see trends like cramming, which loses long-term memorization, for tests all the time. If you know what you’re doing, it’s easy in some high schools to get all As/maybe a few Bs while not trying (I try to stray from doing this). Some students tend to not be great test takers because of test anxiety, and this can limit your chance of getting a good grade. This is because tests generally make up 40-50% of your overall semester grade. There are many other ways to evaluate student performance because grades generally don’t tell the whole story.
All I know is school makes me feel like I'm in a box, and can't seem to break free. However my favourite subject is Language because when it comes down to writing and things along those lines. I like to figure out ways to bend and stretch the limit of the piece. To express my creativity, and my passions. Of anything I cant stand in similarities, and being told how to do something, because I'm built of the idea of originality and finding other ways to solve a common problem.
I'd love to hear more on the origin of the standardized age-based grade system. Society didn't always have kindergarden through 12th grade and a standard 4 years of college to attain a degree. Does it relate to the labor laws you mention in a previous video since the required level of schooling ends around age 18 or "adulthood"?
A = Average
B = Bad
C = Can't eat dinner
D = Don't come home
F = Find a new family
Accurate
Asians probably relate most
F is for friends who do stuff together
IKR
A-? B-? C-? D-? F-?
Lmfao schools care more about grades (memorizing and tests) than teaching
Ria Reneé my school is the same and ARMY Jimin stan
Heres this week of school I just had summed up
Monday - off
Tuesday - huge u.s history project due Friday
*anxiety and stress for the next few days*
Weds - geometry test
Thurs - physics test
Friday- intro to buisness test and presentation
Veøsity Music how did that go?
@@teamatfort444 good, but grades havnt come in yet and my partner didnt present with me
@@teamatfort444
For most test though I dont put effort cause I'm not gonna let a teacher just give me work and test me non stop. Theyer job is to teach us not make us work. If they truly cared on theyer student they would instead of saying "you better know this for test" but rather say "this test will not effect you and it will only help let me know what you need help on so you can catch up"
Many times while working on an assignment, English assignments specifically, I've had the thought "Should I write what I want to write, or should I write what the teacher wants to hear?" I usually chose the latter because I knew that way I would get a better grade.
124Nightwing I was just about to say this
Exactly and that isnt education. your grade then refelects how well you know how to play the game. you werent learning to express your own opinions and you werent growing as a person.
Well if the assignment is to write to a prompt than you have to write to the prompt, and if the assignment is about sentence structure or grammar than there is only one correct way to do that as well. Unless the assignment is creative writing than you cant just write what ever you want. However, if it is a creative writing class and you feel that you have to write "what the teacher wants to hear" than you either have a bad teacher or lack the ability to explain your work to your teacher as to why you made some choices over others. Most of the time the only thing your teacher is really grading is sentence structure, grammar, spelling, and if you are able to follow a narrative structure.
I usually write something about how good I think my teacher is at the end of the assignment, I think that my scores got higher because of that.
Philosophy class in a fucking nutshell. For me anyway.
Here's to everyone who's GPA did not reflect either their passion for or capacity for learning. Here's to everyone who got pushed under the bus by a one-size-fits-all system that does not focus on individual learning styles. *Here's to educational media on TH-cam* which rekindled a passion for learning math and science, subjects that I was consistently graded poorly in.
_**hits subscribe button with conviction*
Elliot Grey thanks for watching and subscribing! Happy to provide educational content for everyone interested in learning more!
*whose ( I'm in grade 9)
Retain retain retain....never imagine, passion, or create
@@kctasty9188 that's the sad truth.
Elliot Grey I feel that the GPA thing,I mean; I worked so hard for my gpa to the point that I started getting sick due to the stress and I just barely made it to where I wanted it to be at
A+: Amazing.
A: Great
A-: Still Good
B+: Okay
B: Maybe a little practice
B-: A little more practice
C+: Being in the Cs or lower is a bad sign
C: You are struggling
C-: Almost a D. That ain’t good
D+: You need practice!
D: This is bad.
D-: Have fun telling your parents you got a D-
F: F***
Amazingly accurate.
A+: yaaay!
A: that’s great too!
A-: still good
B+ meh
B: ugh noo
B-: well that really sucks... 😡
Anything lower than a b- is just no. Lol
Lmao I get bad grades every time I give up with my life don't care about it
So hyped until my death day comes
My system varies per teacher, but I follow a 1 - 5 system with decimals inbetween.
My reactions:
5 (100%) Excellent!
4.75 (95%) Great, I'm happy!
4.5 (90%) Not bad, not bad.
4.25 (85%) I could've done better.
4 (80%) I ain't happy.
3.75 (75%) Augh, no....
3.5 (70%) Well, I am dead.
3.25 (65%) That's terrible! My mark is going down!
3 (60%) My parents, they'll hate this.
2.75 (55%) Extra Credit, now!
2.5 (50%) What? WHAT?!
0 -> 2.25 (0 -> 45%) *Cries*
AndyMakesVideos I already want to cry over a 55%.
In my opinion, grades are a very dangerous thing. Especially as a person my an anxiety order from a very young age if I didn't get at least an 80 I would have a mental breakdown and with how much society relies on grade to advance to the next level (elementary grades determine which high schools you can get into and high school grade determine which universities you could get into) I always had a pressure to be perfect. One wrong move could ruin my entire life. THAT is what it felt like and that not only sucks all the joy out of learning but puts unnecessary pressure on parents, students, and teachers.
"Grades are bad because muh feelings"
Constantine V no grades are a bad thing because society puts too much value on them and attaches your value or worth to a grade
Andrew Li I truly believe that the entire education system needs to change. I am not going to sit here and act like I have all the answers but I do work in daycares with very young children and they have this innate desire to learn. So what happens between age 2-4 and high school where you have kids hating their classes and being overly stressed out. I also respect and understand the need for everyone to have a base level of knowledge before moving on to the next level. Maybe the solution is instead of having a separate grade for each year kids are split up into larger age ranges and given more freedom to explore the things that interest them without grades with maybe a test to see where they are at every couple of years. Or maybe schools could just not have as much emphasis or grades. Send home progress reports that just outline the child’s strengths are areas of improvement and they have to meet certain learning goals to move forward.
Andrew Li the way the education system is set up it is not even accurately calculating how much or well you understand information it is just testing how well you can store information in your short term memory and then regurgitate it on a test. So if it is not accurately doing its job in the first place then we really don’t need them. And you can show value by your experience, having a portfolio, or answering questions designed to measure your fit for a position
Andrew Li from my experience I have never had a job where I have been asked for a gpa or what my grades were. From my experience the only purpose for grades is to get into a good high school and then get into a good post secondary. After you graduated no one cares about the actual marks they just care if you have a degree. Kids and parents stress over grades because they want their kids to get into a good college. I do think grades should be eliminated in elementary school. I think that may really easy up on social pressure. And even if you to continue to mid term and final grades that could be a possibility too. I think the main problem is that when you get a letter grade on each and every assignment you being to solely focus of that letter grade you miss the bigger picture and like I said school grades aren’t accurate in the slightest. I am actually a great example of the inaccuracies of grades. I have a learning disability and part of my learning disability makes it very hard for me to spell. It took my teachers a very long time to figure this out because I aced every spelling test. They were very confused by the fact that I could spell a word in a spelling test but if I had to write that word a week later I couldn’t. The difference was that I was able to cram for the spelling tests the night before and regurgitate it on a test the next day but my learning disabilities were preventing me properly understanding the concepts. So I totally see your point about needing a standard or way to know if someone is qualified but if the current system we have isn’t accurate and is causing mental health problem specifically in kids then is it really a system we should keep?
A=acceptable B=beating C=crisis D=death E=execution F=funeral
FencerDoesStuff there is
康 康 no there isn’t. Wtf is wrong with you?
Noble_Dragon THERE IS IN MY SCHOOL SO SHUT UP
@@康康-f6v yeah right, thats probably what your parents are most concerned about
It depends on what school you go to. We have Es at my school
In grade 12 I got the highest mark in the class on several exams, and 30s in more than one of the same courses because I didn't do the coursework. Then in university I got basically every grade imaginable, more Bs than anything but everything else. If you just took my averages you'd get a completely incorrect impression of my overall performance. I've always considered grades to be problematic and not something I wanted to focus on getting but they still end up having an impact. People with low grades end up hating themselves, people with high grades end up expecting too much from themselves and then being disappointed and disillusioned later. The system needs to change.
Heartily agree and second that!
In some careers you also present your transcripts when in the application process. At least the ones that wait for in person interview let you explain the ups and downs of your grades vs the computer filtering out your application in ones that don't. =S
i completely agree! ever since i started being in aps, if i get lower grades than everyone else or not what i want, it can ruin my entire day. ill have an entire mental fucking breakdown and cry or just belittle myself. ugh i just wanna be done. maybe itll get better when i go to college next year :(
Amen
agreed my grades were very inconsistent but overall has a high average. My friends look at me when i fail a test and says I thought u were smart lol
I’ve always been to grateful to my parents for recognizing that I would have a better learning and life experience if they didn’t pressure me on grades. They encouraged me to do my best while also pursuing my extracurricular interests, which ended up paying off, literally, in scholarships, but also in getting into my “reach” school.
My experience ended up being a lot like what the girls realized in Booksmart. I even had to overhear a kid viciously, bitterly complaining that he got better grades than me and was soooo much smarter than me in physics and math but got rejected from the university I chose. It wasn’t all based on the numbers, bud.
Thanks to my mom and dad, school was positive experience for me, and I really blossomed and thrived even moreso in college. Such an incredible gift they gave me, and I’m so privileged to have had it. Had I been able to have kids, I hope I could maintain their approach and give the same kind of support. Grades are NEVER the *full picture* of a child’s current or future achievements.
Colleges put way too much emphasis on the difference between A, A-, and B+. That's thousands of dollars of scholarships, and even admission, based on whether a teacher believes you should get an A for getting a 95%, 90%, or anywhere in between. As a high school teacher, I can tel you that most of that is arbitrary and only loosely represents real learning.
I agree! I know professors that won't give their students an A on assignments because they fear that it'd cause students to think they don't need improvement.
Wesley Morgan I agree. I was denied a Math Tutoring job in college when I first started because I earned a B in College Algebra and they wanted a B+. I applied a few years later and got the job after getting an A- in Pre-Calc.
Very true. Most of my professors are genuinely concerned about students not doing well. They're willing to get to the heart of the problem and actually work with the student to improve, not just say "you're failing. Fix that."
I agree
@@short_bar You literally said it. To get perfect grades would be to try to impress your professor. Just do your best, and don't worry about the rest.
Albert Einstein wrote, “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
The Mexican walking fish can climb trees. That's how we know it's smarter than other fish.
'Why do we get grades in school' - Me after 10 mins of revision
Or else you wont even bother to revise..
Number 1 source of stress...
And stress on grade school children, their self esteem begins to fluctuate up and down..
*AND* it’s the source of stress for parents. I don’t want my Mom or my Dad to be stressed about my grades. It makes me feel guilty...
Something needs to be done and this grading or percentage system needs to be changed with descriptive results. Because this grading system has caused many students committ suicide in history, and even depression, etc.
that is really the saddest part becuase no one at any job actually cares what grades you got. they care if you can get the job done and do it well. yes they may care what school you went to but 1 person with a harvard degree who may have gotten ds in every class looks on paper better than a person who got straight As in a school no one has herd of. but you need to get good grade in elementary to get into a good high school and you need good grade in hs to get into college and all these place basically tie a humans self worth to a number or a letter that doesnt even acuatly show their skills that you drive kids to think they are worthless because their strengths dont play to the system
I'm glad you care about your student's well being. All I ever got from my teachers was them complaining about how I was getting low grades, spacing out day-dreaming, and wasting my obvious potential. I got so stressed out by my teachers I eventually just started getting my work done in a fit of terror so everyone would leave me alone. I was having panic attacks every single day by my senior year of high school and I had higher than a 4.0. Fulfilling my sposed potential was costing my mental well-being. The funniest part, my parents never cared one way or another, they only cared that my teachers were complaining. I was bored in school. There was a lot of memorization that was a waste of my time and my teachers never answered my questions. I dogged my 2nd grade teacher for weeks to get her to answer my question once. The question: why do we used both upper case and lower case letters? why not one or the other? what is the purpose? Her answer: that's just how it's done me: But why? Her angrily: just do what your told. Every assignment I turned in over the next several weeks was one sentence all caps next sentence all lower case. She eventually answered my question when it became clear this wasn't going to stop
Leeon yea ik
I was suicidal in 8th grade because grades but now I don’t care too much
I'm one of them don't care about my life I'm a failure
2:45 with English captions on, it says "Those guys are dead." She doesn't say it though. That's some creepy stuff going on there.
FencerDoesStuff what?
FencerDoesStuff no
Ya Boi Jumper yes
I believe she wrote the subtitles in first, and then later on when she was recording the video, she decided not to say that part of the script but simply forgot to remove the subtitles.
It’s not always accurate. It tries to sound out what they are saying and puts it on. Like if it was French and the video said “bonjour tu a une bon semaine?” In English captions it might have said “bon jo ur too a own bon sem aine?” I know those aren’t real words but who cares? Obviously u can just edit it
As a teacher, I really prefer the idea of standards based evaluation. That is, you create a list of things a student should be able to accomplish to "pass" the course, and what percentage of these standards must be met to pass. Then you design multiple ways for students to demonstrate they have mastered these standards; tests, assignments, demonstrations, etc. If my student can use at least one of these methods to demonstrate they have mastered each needed skills, then they have finished the class. If not, they have not finished the class and may either keep trying or leave. Part of the issue is to give students multiple ways to demonstrate their mastery of a skill. I have seen students who will consistently fail a written exam but excel on an oral exam, or show great skill on an assignment, but totally bomb a timed essay. Notice that I am not advocating for grades, just simply a certification that a student has mastered enough of the core concepts to be finished with or pass a class.
Also, I do think idea of writing narratives sounds great on the surface, but is horrible in practice. I say this as a teacher who had to write narratives on each of my students. Even with only about 30 students a year, I found myself writing out cliches and thinking about how the parents and students would react to what I was writing. Sometimes I would phrase things very delicately to encourage or avoid discouraging a student. And a very combative, unrealistic parent (or administrator worrying about tuition) can influence what you write about their child. One of my principals even went so far as to come up with a cheat sheet, a list of 50 or so positive comments that you could check off, and a smaller amount of things that need to be improved that you also could check off. Then the principal would count your checks marks. If you didn't have enough positive marks or too many negatives you got your cheat sheet back to redo.
TLDR: We need standards that can be shown to mastered in multiple ways and to remove some of the subjective judgements.
So, there's the question of what might be best for students, but also the question of what can practically be achieved by the teacher. In any case, I agree.
Yes, that is an important question and I think it has shaped many of our past practices. One of the nice side effects of computer technology is that it can free treachers from some of the paperwork issues and can make it easier to provide multiple methods of presenting and assessing lessons.
As a fellow educator (of university students) you hit the nail on the head. Narratives might work in small seminars with 12 or less students, but it’s unwieldy in anything larger. Standards based is the way to go and it’s more flexible to student needs.
As a middle school teacher, I idealize showing my students that gardes do not equate total value in society. However, with over 100 students and class sizes of 36, efficiency and practicality in measuring achievement needs to be addressed. Otherwise, grade school teachers would never sleep.
A friend of mine had a class this semester that still used grades, but also used a point system where, as long as you did enough work to get 200 points by the end of the semester, you got an A. This rewarded people for doing work earlier on in the semester and made it less stressful for students that messed up an assignment. My friend ended up hitting the 200 point level in the last few weeks of class and was able to opt out of the final and focus on his other exams instead
I had a teacher in 11th grade who said on the first day that she was going to grade us on standards rather than numbers. This was a groundbreaking proposition in the ridiculous college prep high school I went to where all the students, parents, and teachers were obsessed with grades. Originally I was confused and skeptical about this and I also really loved getting grades because throughout my life I based my entire self-worth on my good grades because school was the only thing I ever succeeded in. Anyway her class was one of the most stress free and enjoyable classes that I ever took. She ended up being my favorite teacher in high school and I loved every second of not having to worry about grades for once.
a letter doesn't determine your knowledge
It does in that given moment of a test, BUT it does not determine your intelligence, creativity, etc.
Tell that to my mental problems
A letter determines how good your memory is. It doesn't determine your intelligence. I'm a resourceful, creative person who likes building and decorating. I'm physically strong, especially for a girl, and don't mind getting my hands dirty.
But since I have the memory of a goldfish and actually think about my health, I don't get assigned the letter A.
The Angry Little Alchemist does any other part of your body get dirty too?
Depends on the job
After 30 years as an engineer, I've just decided to start a new career as a STEM teacher. While I have no worries about teaching STEM, I do have a couple other worries. First is managing a classroom of hormonal students, some of whom will have difficulties outside the classroom that affect learning. Second is providing fair and useful assessments that are more than simple letters or numbers.
This video really speaks to me, and has given me much food for thought. Thanks!
I can tell you'll be a great and sympathetic teacher. Best of luck to u sir
Please im a junior in highschool and I found some tips, be more visual when teaching cause many teachers only speak when teaching and rarely show there explanations in a visual way making it hard for visual learners. Also I would speak motive and in a positive voice cause it help make them focus more. Lastley another way for focusing and learning more is to make sure to teach them actively not where they're sitting cause studies show kids with say a spin chair or something they can fidget with or move actively while still focusing can help then feel less trapped in one spot and feel more motivated to focus cause they feel that they have more control of themselves. I myself have even noticed it and I actually have adhd.
I’m in STEM
I want to be a core french teacher, either highschool pr college level
@@NickWheeler9559 I also have ADHD and in high school I took up origami and doodling during class so that my hands would have something to do and I could focus a lot more; however, a few teachers would not let me doodle or do origami and in turn, I learned a lot less from their classes as I wouldn't be able to focus and would end up zoning out
This vid won't change anything- nothing ever changes the school system, because it's more about grades and memorizing and stuff than actual teaching.
You also need understanding in what you learn, It's pretty much useless if you don't understand anything.
Yuriko Why would kids want to learn when they’re too busy being kids?
@@_____._..--_ time management
Ikr. I spend hours sitting in class, pretending to pay attention, and wasting my life in that cold brick building.
Education is the slowest at everything I legit think you could go through an act of Congress faster than the school system and that's an achievement mind you the government isn't known for urgency either.
Math was a self esteem killer xD
If you can find a good math teacher it's one of the best confidence builders. *If* you can find one.
Faactss and the STAAR test
For me it's English
Math was never my best subject, but I had an amazing professor in college who prioritized learning and self improvement over letter grades. She taught us how to work through the uncomfortable feeling of not understanding the content at first. This is applicable not only to math, but life in general. Moreover, she cared about her students and encouraged us to visit her office hours. She could remember faces and recognize students even in a lecture hall with hundreds of students. I am super grateful to have been in her class.
Math is actually cool and fun they just ruin it
A= Amazing
B= Beautiful
C= Creative
D= Doomed, just kidding
E= Excellent
F= Fantastic
School is just one big game of trying to get an A.
Students that get below that kick themselves because they can't "pass their classes" by getting all A's.
Everyone is trying to race to the top,and while doing that,learn pretty much nothing starting from freshman year.
Algebra,Trigonometry,Classifyfing,Calculus,its all just a competition between fellow classmates.
Later on,in those 12 years of what you learned,you don't know how to pay taxes,bills,invest, buy a house,loan things,and all that you need for a basic lifestyle. Not saying you have to live this way.
Colleges accept students with the highest grades/GPA,little do they know,there are smart students that get D's and C's,and even F's,grades only display how much work you do,not how WELL you do.
SpazMoid
Amen (pun intended)
Sometimes if I do a writing assignment i write what I think the teacher wants to hear. Not from my own expressions
Grades don't show how much work you do. They show your intellect, especially in higher level classes where homework is below 5%. Most of the time, exams are above 50% and even get to 90%. Clearly, if you knew the subject you would get an A so not being able to is your fault. Everyone is saying that grades measure how well you suck up to your teacher and how it doesn't show how much you know a subject but my existence denies both of these as: 1. I've gotten in A in all the classes my teachers hated me, 2. I know every subject and I've gotten all A's... Srsly why is everyone making excuses to not study and saying grades don't matter
@@asadyamin4867 they literally show how hard you work. Intellect makes it easier, but overall, grades show work ethic. High school is undoubtedly easier than college, yet I have a higher GPA in college than I did in high school. I was just a lazy shit in high school and didn't do anything. Ur statement that it measures intellect is so you can feel good about your grades and validate yourself.
no offense i think school is fine but you can take classes on college about real life stuff
@@asadyamin4867 Studying to do well on exams still takes effort, so even in those courses it is largely about work ethic.
A - awful
B - better
C - congrats
D - dominance
E - entrepreneur
F - free man
As someone who typically gets good grades, I can tell you the negative effects to self esteem still happen even to the "smart kids" if not more so. In middle school and elementary school, I'd get 4s (out of 4) almost all the time, but then I switched to a private high school with a A-F grade scale, and was not prepared in the slightest. Even though an A- was really good, I cried about it because my parents expected perfection. Even when I would drop everything to do my best on an assignment, I would either do one thing that could vaugely be interpreted as not A+ just because the teacher thought I didn't put the analysis that they wanted or something, or I would get an A+ and my parents would be like "cool". I have stopped caring as much about grades though, as the time I spend just trying to get an A instead of an A- could instead be spent on my passion, video game design
Adelle Oh wow, the same thing kind of happened to me but in reverse. I went to a school from grades 1-4 and I got all As on an A-F - E system. After 4th grade, I moved schools. In fifth grade, they switched to a 1-4 system.
1 - F
2- - D-
2 - D
2+ - D+
3- - C-, C, C+
3 - B-, B, B+
3+ - A-, A
4, Above A
I began getting Bs, Cs, and even some Ds, but I didn’t really get that since it was a new system. (The final report card only had 1, 2, and 3)Then, in 6th, which is when I became a middle schooler, they switched back to the letter system. When I got 3 Bs on my report card, I suddenly realized what was wrong.
You know you could still get good grades while enjoying it. The answer is simple: Don't follow the grades, follow the vision of the course. The grades will end up following you.
Fourth grade was the first year we got letter grades. On the first day of school, the teacher explained to us what A, B, C, D, and F meant. I then raised my hand and asked "How come there ain't no 'E'?"
What did your teacher say?
Love the mention of Kentucky! I remember going home and seeing my brothers report card and being super confused at all the new numbers and labels.
monsterthing2 thanks for watching!
Grades have me so stressed that once I got a C and had a mental breakdown because I thought I would be a failure and be begging on the streets for spare money if I didn't get at least a B on all report cards. Probably would still have one today if that were to happen, and that was almost a year and a half ago.
I tell students grades do not measure your intelligence, it measures effort
thaintriguing1 and also if you can get in the good side of a teacher
Ye I bust my ass and stay up till 2 every day and still end up with a 2.4 gps
@@jmman7508 then, you should be proud of that 2.4 gpa.
@@BellaB_2004 your right
A "C" in high school algebra and "C"s in college classes on government and music history (yes, music history) were the hardest-earned grades in all my years in school.
It is good to hear that institutes are finally trying something different, the current grading system is a bit like telling a patient "well, you sick." instead of suggesting what is actually the wrong and/or what to do about it.
Hey can I ask, in American schools are the kids born in January the oldest in their grade level and December the youngest, or is it those born in September that is the oldest and August that is the youngest. For example lets say someone is born in 31st December 2004 and someone born in 1st Janaury 2005, the kid born in Janaury will be the oldest in their grade level because they are born in the first month while December is the youngest because they are born in the last month. Or is it those born in September that is the oldest like lets say someone born on 31st August 2006 and someone born on 1st September 2006, will those 2 kids be in the same grade level or will they be in different grade levels. Because I kinda heard that kids born in August will be the youngest and September will be the oldest but some people say kids born in Janaury will be the oldest and those born in December will be the youngest in their grades, so which one is correct?
As a mexican US grades always confused me. All those letters and plus and minus signs... Here we score 0-10 (or 100. Just move the decimal point at teacher's will). 5.9 or below and you falied. THAT SIMPLE
that's even worse and more stressful , points would be even more important
I feel like American system is way easier than that.
A=Best Passing (90-100)
B=Good Passing (80-89)
C=Average Passing (70-79)
D=Barely Passed (60-69)
F=FAILED(0-59)
Idk maybe since I’m used to the American system it’s easier but I feel like it is compared to the whole decimal thing. Like you said 5. Something is failed what about the rest? Obviously it’s Passing but how much did you pass? Did you barely make it or did you work really hard and did very well?
Basically the same thing. Letters denote those numbers tho.
Rebecca Francois in our systems, D is a failing grade. Being in a majority Asian school, the average is a B (officially it is still a C).
Darn, My school just randomly states what they think, not grades...
E- excellent
S-satisfactory
N-Needs improvement
U- I don’t know, but you KNOW you did bad...
my dad didnt even try to help me when i had bad grades, he just grounded me for weeks - dad how am i gonna do homework? he didnt let me.
i basically had to keep an A, B or C or else i lost my computer, aka the thing i do HOMEWORK on most of the time.
If this happens again, have a conference with a teacher, school counselor, principal, or staff member who you know well and trust will help you with your issue.
@@animeprofilepicture8302 yeah but how tf is he gonna study if he isn't allowed to do homework on his computer
Lucky you, just a confiscation of technology. I get spanking and beating
@@hoenn4ever829 well the problem is the entertaining. You don't get that if you don't do well in school. Todays kids feel entitled feel as though you don't have to work for those electronics you love so much. Your only job at this moment is to focus on school do your best. If ylu can focus on your xbox games you can focus on that school work. Entertainment things is a luxury its not something parents have to give you. Own your mistakes and makes things right do what is expected of you so you can be the best YOU!
lady o homework helps the kid do fucking better fam. They need a pc/laptop to do the homework, take it back after if you don’t want them to have a source of entertainment. *God the stupidity of some people* .
Maybe we should stop paying to attention to grades and study happily and let life brings what ever to the table that’s not stressful
Yeah, if only life is meant to be that way then we can live it to its fullest.
Very interesting video but the background music in the last part (starting at 5:40) made me cringe: way too loud and distracting !
Yes, why would it start out with no music then all of a sudden start half way through?
I had to stop watching the video
Lmfao that just made me laugh at how unnecessary and and annoying the music was I couldn't finish the video
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@@askiavance3281 Why is the saltiness needed? If it isn't your problem don't bother with it
in elementary school, we used ABCD grading. from 7th to 10th grade, i was in a program with 0-8 grading, and now it’s just percentage.
Grades dictate so much although it mainly tests your memorizing ability and testing skills. A students appear to hate learning yet B/C students love it: they explore other areas and don’t focus solely on what is taught in class. The real world is not perfect so why do grades have to be?
Honestly. I used to get stressed out over poor grades. But now I don't care about my grades even if they are bad which they are.
Raging boy Same man i used to get stressed out if i score lower than a B but now i dont care about my grades.
OMG!! me too. I don't even mind having a low score or even ZERO
Mr Hopper same with me in math class. My grades suck in it so I just stopped caring about the class. That’s why grades are dangerous
I'm failing but ya now what I am happy
Im the opposite
You did skip over the reason that "E" is not in there, I was a little disappointed at that. One factor of culture that I've always found fascinating is Japan's emphasis on grades, which is even greater than ours.
TWIOCH : And that supports her statement that grades promote conformity. In Japan, good grades and passing entrance exams to get into prestigious universities help you to enter a good company. It doesn't matter much what your major is as you could be given any sort of job (exception being highly specialized jobs such as research scientist). You become a good cog in the wheel. But, as she said, the ones that really make a difference are the super creative or gifted ones that somehow break past the hammers of conformity.
Just theorizing here, but if you get an F it's easy to forge into an E. And an F takes less strokes to make than an E.
Perhaps that caution and 'laziness' can explain some of it?
The two school districts near where I live both have A through E and they don’t give F’s
Lol i have asian parents and they say that i should get all As no matter what
As a teacher grades have always been a tricky thing. On one hand you don't want students to be grade crazy and equate their self-worth with their GPA. On the other hand, you also want them to excel. Without grades learning becomes optional and students will just procrastinate.
Ken Gonzales That’s interesting...I feel like a lot of students are curious, and want/like to learn, however once you attach grades to it, we lose the motivation to do so...and with more international competition and expectations from others (read: parents/family), we unintentionally end up associating our worth with our grades....I personally don’t care about grades, I love learning, but I only care out of anxiety....and, I think that having grades won’t change whether or not students will procrastinate...
Raegan Mira A Agreed. I procrastinate all the time and somehow still have all As thanks to 5 easy classes, and my internal and external pressure to do well in math.
Raegan Mira A I feel like competition discourages learning and makes people less likely to take risks out of fear of offending their parents or getting a bad grade.
A= bragging rights and honor rule
B=Acceptable but do better
C=Improve or we are pulling out of this school( my parents actually did and I miss my friends)
D= You are moving to you aunts house. ( quote from my dad follows) "If you don't value the education we are paying for you then someone else can take care of it. I work 7 days a week to pay for your education and you obviously don't care!"
F= I am moving schools and living at my aunts house. ( He is serious that's why I don't show him my F's)
What I hate about the grading system, is that it doesn’t take into account your rainy days. When you go into this state of stress you struggle more and more, it feels impossible to get a second chance in school, you let one thing slip through your fingers and it ruins you. I’ve been dealing with a lot of stress and almost depression recently and I’m getting Cs. My parents are disappointed, schools make it look like I’m an idiot all because I can’t balance 7 classes at once. I get it, I messed up. But how are students supposed to learn that pursuit will get you where you need to be if you don’t give them a chance? Are you just going to let us fail? Now I have three Cs before 1st semester finals week. And I can’t do anything about it.
I know grading system is just arful.Why does it exist
My high school changed our grading system my senior year, each subject had four competencies that we were “graded” on from a rubric, which was on a scale of 1-4. Our grade evolved as the class went on. So, you might start getting a 1-2 on assignments but as the course went on if you were improving the competency number would go up. Instead of averaging those grades each “assessment “ changed our grade. So, our final would be our final grade. The only class that year I had a test for a final was my math course the others were all projects that went along with our competencies for that class.
Parents: A D! Why'd you get such a bad grade?
Me: Don't blame me, blame Ezra Stiles.
We used to say “C’s get degrees” 🤣. I also like this one “What do you call the medical student at the bottom of the class? ...Doctor” 🤭
while on the subject of school, even though its kind of new, you should cover where the idea for common core came from. for most of us whove been out of school, the idea of it just seems confusing.
ive only seen a few examples from my nieces homework, it doesnt make sense that they should force these kids to go about their answers through the longest means possible. i still remember back in school, math was one of the few classes i did really well in. but what kept me from moving to more advanced classes was that i never showed my work. i refused to use a calculator and always did the stuff in my head. i always got in trouble for that... now as an adult ive been trained to use calculators, and i can barely do basic multiplication and division in head anymore. school trained me well...
Shawn Hollern this would be a good topic for a follow up episode since I've seen a few other comments on the common core. I'll keep this one in mind for future episode topics, especially since the second piece of this would definitely be focused on how students learn and retain information. Thanks for watching!
Ack I always hated when they made us practice *exclusively* one way of doing something just because. Like you know that decision with the tens on the side? I have no idea how to do that now, and neither does anyone else so what a waste of time in 3rd grade.
@@elenagibbons4719 never heard of the decision with the tens on the side
SSJR Dude Sorry, that was a typo. I meant division and not decision. I swear we did learn that though.
common core is stupid it prevents me from being smart(it’s just a joke i have other ways of learning)
New Zealand switched to NCEA years ago, a system where students would get descriptions such as achieved, rather than a percentage grade. It meant their overall performance wasn't so dependant on exams, but some students found they weren't as well prepared to the exam culture in university as a result.
I feel like one thing that would make grades for efficient is if semesters weren't the end all be all you know? Like give kids the time and help they need, a semester should be for reporting and setting a trajectory not just "get in all your work and do your finals or fail"
A = Good
B = Ok I guess
C = They'll never find the body
D = That's it, I'm dead
*Schools arent about learning but passing*
My math teacher does standards based grading and it’s amazing. I have 100% in the class, and I actually focus on understanding the material. I stress more about a regents health
class than my CALCULUS 3 class. I also took AP Calc BC with this teacher and 50% of her students get fives on the exam. Standards over percentages!!!
I liked this video a lot, but it was quite USA focussed. There are so many different grading systems! In the Netherlands a scale of 1 to 10 is generally used.
Could you do a video on the origin of primary education?
in the UK we now use the new 9-1 for GCSE
Living in the Neverlands where I live in Canada we use percentages
HS Math Teacher Here : Very well done Origin Of Everything!
In the UK we have numbers 9-1
A- good job maybe some money
B- nice job keep doing good
C- Ok
D- no comment
F- huh well no video games
If you have PTSD from bad grades you have bigger problems than bad grades so stop worrying about bad grades
I watched my school slowly fall from teaching to standardized testing within 4 years. At first, it felts freer. We did more projects rather than tests and it felt like teachers had more control over what they wanted to teach. Year two, it got more restrained. Things weren't as free and tests increased. There was a noticeable shift with the teachers' happiness. The third year, everything went sour. All of my teachers were complaining daily about activities they loved doing with their students that they were forced to replace with tests. This is the year we almost got a standardized test for every single class in the high school. It was very bad and we barely skirted out of it. Year four just felt empty.
You could tell that the teachers didn't like to teach anymore. Even the good teachers were overstressed trying to figure out how to best teach with this unceasing testing curriculum. There was a drop in the drive for the students' work ethic. I was one of those students. While I still graduated honors, I lost my passion for learning in school. I would go to school, chug down information, regurgitate it a few days later during the quiz/test, then promptly forget it.
It's time for a change. For our future's sakes.
Meh my parents don't care about my life, friends, mind, problems... but apparently if there are ONE "B" I have done EVERYTHING wrong.😦
SAME! My parents don’t care about my mind or problems or who I hang out with, but if I have a B in anything but elective or PE, I’m a criminal. Especially math, my parents don’t care much for language or history. Science is a free grade since my teacher gives free points for no reason.
@@doomxtreme Yea my parents ( I'm Hispanic )actually hit us FIVE times for every bad grade and missing assignment
Cutie Pie Ouch! My parents don’t do that, although tbh that is child abuse
@@doomxtreme i get that a LOT my friends also tell me that getting hit by a belt isn't normal
DoomXtreme I just get grounded for like a weekend cause I can only play on weekends
Dealing with LDs, I've never been able to make good grades. I was tested by specialists and it's not that I wasnt knowledgeable. I always just didn't do well in the standard classroom. I would study anytime I wasn't eating or sleeping, and still made bad grades. If I made a C, my parents where happy for me. When we moved to another school the councilor told me I would have a better time if I was held back a year, which was a terrible idea, and let me to drop out because even the teachers would hate having me in their class. I wanted to learn, but the system isn't made for all learning types. People too often fall through the cracks.
This was very informative ! but it is The Origin of Everything, I was expecting something a bit less American-Centric :P In France, grading history is different, and we have notes on a 0-10 scale at primary school since 1866, and there was systems before. Also, Japanse is on 0-100, Germany on 0-6... Every country has a different history on the subject. www.slate.fr/story/89081/notes-sur-20-ecole
It's nice anyway that you take the time to report the relationship between grades and student interest/learning. :)
If you haven't done an episode on homework yet, you should. Loving the channel, keep up the great work.
What about A+ student like mark who created Facebook while he was studying in Harvard . straight A student can also have creative thinker by the way. you are kinda motivating kids not to work hard and study and get more information from their books when you talk about these uneducated or self taught people you have to clarify that they are an exception.
The channel isn’t trying to discourage studying, but is saying that grading systems are taking a toll on most students due to stress.
This is really interesting. Plus, I think letter grades can be a catalyst to a fixed mindset.
This channel is great. Let me know if there's any way i can help
Step Back History thanks for watching! Ill be sure to check out your videos.
Maybe a collaboration?
I'm currently a 7th grader, and my elementary and middle schools both used numbers for our grading system.
It's from a scale of 1-4, 1 being the lowest and 4 being the highest.
1 - Below Grade Level
2 - Near Grade Level
3 - Proficient
4 - Advanced
To get a 3, you just need to do the bare minimum/what's required. To get a 4, you have to do what's required and then think harder to answer a more challenging question, come up with ideas that connect to the world on a larger scale, or put in extra effort.
now people will use this as an excuse to not do well in school 😂
No
Right
I’m going to highschool soon but my elementary school did a proficiency scale instead of letters
Emerging: little to no effort.
Developing: some effort
Proficient: the expected amount of effort
Extending: basically if you did extra work.
School causes more stress than sending a risky text... prove me wrong
I like the comment about grades identifying "generalists vs. specialists". I think there is a lot to be said for that. Although if you watch my channel you can probably guess my outlook on school.
Still better than PragerU!
oh hi James Baldwin! ...oh hi again James Baldwin!
As a teacher I often see student putting way too much emphasis on their grades. I work in Sweden where they have a much more open, rubric style grading system that I like more than the US system but I still have kids who would rather get a 0 than try and not get an A.
This is why school sucks for the most part
In school I ALWAYS over stressed with tests.
In high school an office worker with enough power hated me (Long story) and she would fail me no matter how good I did (A-B with a C here and there average). When I was 16 I got tired of failing so I dropped out.
I went back and the principal and teachers let me sit in class and do the work. I no longer had to worry about test or failing. Learning became FUN.
I have a GED with the highest high school education a person can have. And since teachers had college they taught me as much as they remembered, so I have some undocumented college,too.
With my children I started educating them by the time they could talk.
When they started 1st grade, they were ready for 5th grade. And they started 1st grade at 5, a year early. By 2nd grade, they were used as substitute teachers for all elementary grades.
Needless to say, my kids only got A's.
I do think that grades help students to improve their skills, as long as they don't see them as burden and if people can stop judging others by their grades
Kyungsoo Im that’s all fine and good but the thing is. Both points you mentioned apply to students. I stopped caring about my grades in math because i was doing bad in it.
Self esteem killer
@@teamatfort444 well i guess, it's different for every person, for me personally, grades help me to improve. Math was also the black hole in my report back in junior high school and because of it i tried harder in learning math, now it gets one of the best score in my report, so idk based on your grades it's up to you to see it as a burden or as a challenge
Yes grades are important, but they cause a lot of stress. One thing I used to have a big problem with was, for example, in math I may understand the concept and get good grades on assignments, but sometimes testing I would get really stresses out and not do so well. I'm only in 7th grade and I'm afraid of the future tests and whole lot of stuff I will have to endure. Also, a good thing colleges some colleges have been doing is that they don't always count all the tests or SAT'S because not everyone are good testers
The grading system is meant to tell you where you are in the class. Everyone is graded not just you and everyone has to go through it. I’ve seen so many comments saying “schools are just tests and memorization” well I’m sorry you are wasting your time. How about you take the time to understand it on your own time. Put in the work, most of histories geniuses didn’t have a teacher to stand over their shoulders and wait for them to understand. The teacher provides materials and it’s up to you if you want to put in the work. I hear people say they want to be a “doctor” or a “lawyer”, yet they struggle with school. That should tell you to either find a different career or suck it up and finish. And to be honest, if it weren’t for grades most of you would be watching Netflix instead of attempting to learn.
The avoiding challenges is an interesting side effect of a focus on a perfect GPA. I'm always impressed by the array of facts and cited examples
I don’t hate report card day....I fear it like the black plague... *shivers*
Knowledge is more important than grades.
It's really hard to want to watch these videos with how insanely biased they are and their intention of pushing an agenda out in front, rather than actually giving the information they claim to give by the title of the video. What it says is, "Why do we get grades in school?" But the real title should be, "Why grading in school is outdated and wrong." I agree with it, but it's just kind of annoying to not be given the actual information I came here for and instead, am given 90% personal views and 10% actual historical information.
Can I make a request? Please pull all the videos into one playlist so I can binge them with ease ;) found this through “its ok to be smart” and am totally loving it. Awesome information and awesome topics. One more small request: I love your enthusiasm but sometimes you talk very quickly and I find myself not being able to retain everything I’d like to. So many awesome information nuggets! Maybe you could slow down the delivery just a teeny bit? Love you girl, can’t wait for more episodes.
I hate loud music overlays while people talk >.< There's so much of that now Agh!
Very imformative. I'm sure someone noted this already, some school districts, like the one I graduated from, still use an "E" grade instead of an "F"
It is a fact that A student usually work for B students, and B students work for C students. Have a college degree is no garentee of a career. As time passes, era change our reality. We don't live in the era of yesterday. Grades means that little if at all any more.
I think "it is a fact" is a little strongly worded there. I get what you're saying, but that is just not always true. I work in structural engineering, and I can tell you that every boss I've had either has a PHD or talks shop with those that do. You can't excel in your field if you aren't willing to put in the effort, both physical and mental, and I don't know many failures in high school that went on the suddenly get super motivated.
ZZZ i dont see all dropout becoming a CEO?
Jeffrey Xu how about my main boys
Bill gates, Steve jobs and Mark Zuckerberg
TeamAtFort are they all? And they drop out of university not highschool
TeamAtFort not everyone can be a bill gate or Steve job.
4:23-4:39, I actually had a conversation with a college professor about that exact part.
The music makes it very hard to follow what's being said
In college I found a lot of specialization even in within a department. A number of times in my research there were revelations that made me go _WOW!_ Yet when I tried to tell anybody, student or professor, all I got was "eh." "mhm" or at most, "that's nice."
Like Neil DeGrasse Tyson, I wanted to shake people CD say, "Don't you understand how awesome that is?"
I wanted to join a think tank with other people who also saw awesome things in science and share ideas. And create awesome creations and understand things in a new way.
Even on social media I get less than a reaction of "hm."
Too much US history, please tell whole story in Europa and Asia too. Việt Nam use 10 point system.
Then find a Vietnamese TH-camr
I always appreciated seeing the overall average percentage score in high school in Alberta and knowing what the weighting of each test and project towards that average was. I always had a very accurate picture of how I was doing and knowing which areas that needed improvement when studying for finals. I also appreciated these marks determined what universities would accept me and not a second arbitrary and useless test like an SAT.
Or be someone who gets good grades and creative :)
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So in effect what you're saying is the typical grading system is begging the question. Brilliant insight. Thank you.
*grade is temporarily A-*
Indian parents: “No more netflix, no more phone, no more youtube, no more eating, no more sleeping, no more living in this home if you don’t get your act together”
In Canada(montreal) we mostly use percentages as grades but we also use the letters system from A+ to e.
Our school system is antiquated. It's an embarrassment. We ruin the children's self worth and then wonder why they act out. Too much stress put on them at too young an age!
In Italy we don't have letters for grades, we have numbers (1-10 for elementary school, usually 0-8 for high school, 6 is "sufficient") and judgements for the middle school (excellent, very good, good, sufficient, bad). The high school final exam grades go up to 100 (but when I had mine in 1986 the grades went up to 60). University exams go up to 30 (18 is just enough to pass the exam), and the final university dissertation gets a grade up to 110, Are you confused enough? :)
I'm a former 4.0 and successful entrepreneur who was a large employer. Grades really don't matter in life. Way more important in determining success is ambition (for an entrepreneur) and the ability to get along (for a corporate employee). Pity as I passed on many college subject for fear of not doing well and one really should fail at times in college for you've plenty of time for corrections that are harder to do later in life.
"E is for 'Effort'", my favorite strict terror IT teacher once said. She taught us that effort does nothing until it pays off and make results. It's not F for "Failure" but at least you tried but that doesn't mean you have a finished product...and nobody wants half-assed, half-baked products. She challenged us to become better and more persistent. Can't thank her enough.
Even though I get good grades, I still don’t know what I am doing sometimes in my courses. I go to an American high school, and I see trends like cramming, which loses long-term memorization, for tests all the time. If you know what you’re doing, it’s easy in some high schools to get all As/maybe a few Bs while not trying (I try to stray from doing this). Some students tend to not be great test takers because of test anxiety, and this can limit your chance of getting a good grade. This is because tests generally make up 40-50% of your overall semester grade. There are many other ways to evaluate student performance because grades generally don’t tell the whole story.
Well this young talented lady just got this youtube channel a new subscriber even though this video is over a year old.
All I know is school makes me feel like I'm in a box, and can't seem to break free. However my favourite subject is Language because when it comes down to writing and things along those lines. I like to figure out ways to bend and stretch the limit of the piece. To express my creativity, and my passions. Of anything I cant stand in similarities, and being told how to do something, because I'm built of the idea of originality and finding other ways to solve a common problem.
I'd love to hear more on the origin of the standardized age-based grade system. Society didn't always have kindergarden through 12th grade and a standard 4 years of college to attain a degree. Does it relate to the labor laws you mention in a previous video since the required level of schooling ends around age 18 or "adulthood"?