It's the same every year.
Exam results for UK schoolchildren are out today, and again there is a raging debate.
Once more we hear cries of "Exams are too easy. There are too many getting 'A' results."
Does anyone wonder what effect this has on children who have just done two year's work, and achieved high marks, only to be told that their results are practically worthless?
Is it any surprise that when they go to university, many of them can't seem to be bothered?
Why would they? They already know that when they finish their degree course, the UK press and public will deride those degrees as pointless and irrelevant.
So why bother? Nobody is going to pat you on the back and say 'well done'. Many people are going to point at you and call you a waste of taxpayer's money.
As a long-married friend of mine once pointed out: "Once you've realised you can't possibly do anything that will be considered 'right', there's no further point in doing anything at all."
That's the future. An entire race driven by apathy.
2 comments:
... and the future is now ...
Perhaps the whiners should take the tests and see how they score. Might give them a different view on whether the tests are too easy. Might stop them from undervaluing the work of the students.
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