Time To Permanently Close Down Uk Schools?

[Arthur Ritus]

1 hour ago, ab6262 said:

oh give over!

Perhaps the government could do an online survey!

 

What's "HS exams", tried google didn't help with that.

Edited August 13, 2021 by Arthur Ritus

[Bargepole23]

47 minutes ago, trastrick said:

As someone who marked HS exam papers during summer break (unless I am imagining again, Lol) 2001 to 2004.

 

We were given a weeks "training" in how to mark papers for the current year, then given a test batch of papers to mark and submit, to see if we understood this years standards of scoring.

 

If they were happy with the test batch, they would send as many as my partner and I could manage in a month. Good money too.

 

I can only assume that the teachers themselves could not be bothered during their summer break, Lol

 

And the standards they set were to a large degree dependent on political considerations, to manipulate the published outcomes to their benefit.

 

Of course the bright students suffered, in the name of "equality".

Wouldn't be much of a break if they spent it marking papers. So not "not bothered", just "on holiday"?

Edited August 13, 2021 by Bargepole23

[Mister M]

2 hours ago, ab6262 said:

so you think students perform better at home and thats why the results are better.....HMMMMM! more like a complete dumbing down of the whole system, allowances for this that and the other! not real results and in years to come when these students go for job positions any savvy employer will think twice about exam results sat in 20-21, an exam is a test to see how you perform under conditions not sat in your bedroom using google every 5 mins

Yes I bet the exams system was so much tougher in your day. 

 

[Waldo]

31 minutes ago, Mister M said:

Yes I bet the exams system was so much tougher in your day. 

 

If you don’t think standards have been lowered, then logically you have to conclude that the education delivered during lock down has been an amazing success, as students have out performed students from previous years.

 

Clearly, the bar has been lowered; but I doubt the minister for education will admit this; and if so, he must assume the position that the education regime in place during lock-down has been more successful than in previous years; and that it would make no sense to revert back to a less successful regime.

Edited August 13, 2021 by Waldo

[ab6262]

1 hour ago, tinfoilhat said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-52399589

 

Have a read. 

Ah the BBc report?? it must be true then. we all know every household nowadays no matter how poor has access to the internet and google wether by phone or pc and if there are a minute percentage that havent then theatpercentage is even smaller for HS kids and exams, you know it and i know it!

47 minutes ago, Arthur Ritus said:

Perhaps the government could do an online survey!

 

What's "HS exams", tried google didn't help with that.

plenty could be helped by google, coursework Plagiarised for many subjects, history, maths, geography and sciences its all out there folks?

[Mister M]

1 minute ago, Waldo said:

If you don’t think standards have been lowered, then logically you have to conclude that the education delivered during lock down has been an amazing success, as students have out performed students from previous years.

 

Clearly, the bar has been lowered; but I doubt the minister for education will admit this; and if so must assume position that the education regime in place during lock-down has been more successful than in previous years; and that it would make no sense to revert back to a less successful regime.

I think many students and teachers have struggled during the pandemic; but it would be churlish to use that as a stick to beat them with.

[ab6262]

34 minutes ago, Mister M said:

Yes I bet the exams system was so much tougher in your day. 

 

oh yes much tougher and rightly so , they actually mean something unlike todays all inclusive milk sop exams.

[Waldo]

1 minute ago, Mister M said:

I think many students and teachers have struggled during the pandemic; but it would be churlish to use that as a stick to beat them with.

How is pointing out a truth equal to beating with a stick!?

[Carbuncle]

7 minutes ago, Waldo said:

If you don’t think standards have been lowered, then logically you have to conclude that the education delivered during lock down has been an amazing success, as students have out performed students from previous years.

 

Clearly, the bar has been lowered; but I doubt the minister for education will admit this; and if so, he must assume the position that the education regime in place during lock-down has been more successful than in previous years; and that it would make no sense to revert back to a less successful regime.

The whole thing is a con. Young people have and will pay a great deal as a result of the covid restrictions while deriving the least benefit from those restrictions. We as a society are attempting to pay off one group of these young people in the greatly devalued currency of grade-inflated exam certificates.

Edited August 13, 2021 by Carbuncle

[Mister M]

23 minutes ago, ab6262 said:

oh yes much tougher and rightly so , they actually mean something unlike todays all inclusive milk sop exams.

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Edited August 13, 2021 by Mister M