A subject came up about a teacher scoring a correct answer negatively (in which the student was correct based on semantics with the wording, that the individual who at the smaller fraction of 4/6 had ate more pizza, over another who ate 5/6, and asking why; larger pizza over smaller.)
The person I responded to was a teacher asking if the image was fake, and that "we shouldn't kick people when they are down!")
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Not to belittle teachers, but the difference between districts can make a big difference, though I do believe that the biggest problem children face is their own parents (or lack thereof.)
How many children would have taken the paper with the wrong answer home and never bothered to tell anyone about it, even if they knew they had the correct answer? Why aren't some children likewise accelerated when they should be, and would rather just "give the correct answer" that they assumed the teacher would believe was the correct answer (but was it really?) It's more of a case of semantics.
Also, not everyone has what it takes to be a teacher and that can be a problem with how schools are expected to run. Schools would rather use specific learning materials they believe is effective, even when regurgitating the badly worded and improper materials to teach, while teachers could be going on autopilot themselves because it doesn't reward their creativity to problem-solving and the students it leaves out might be those who are so crushingly bored that a teacher will grow resentful of them.
And of course, sometimes the students really do challenge the process of learning, simply because of so many other things that determine school success (and the parent that wants someone to blame will use such test results as a reason to burn teachers at the stake when the teacher could just as well be overworked and putting in more time than it's worth for the crappy pay.)
It's sort of the argument, that some people are paid not to notice the problems with a system, and will gladly just put the blame on teachers/subordinates/students as well.
The problem isn't endemic to the educational system but a much larger picture of how society expects people to follow a linear pathway towards occupations and pressures people to be viewed as not deviating from that pathway. In some societies the pressure is tremendous; so basically there are incidences in foreign countries where a test rubric being used was wrong and scored many correct answers incorrectly, which had an outcome of kids who offed themselves; though little too late in realizing where the problem was. Sometimes it really is a state of mind and the problems can be how we view our own efforts, so basically some people do poorly simply because they have been conditioned to think that what they think, is wrong. Whether such issues stem from how they were raised or a school system, or rather from society at large, is probably not something that can be easily pinpointed.
Perhaps a comparison could be, are people so commodified as a source of revenue or as a tool/number used by businesses and governments, that they would rather become the product from a consumer level, instead of assuming that they could provide their own product of their intellect? To what extent might a system only reward those who game the system by playing by it's rules, because they believe the system doesn't care and will accept any answer, as long as it's viewed as "correct." Pick from the tree outside the window or chop down the tree and rely on some outside entity to keep you getting sucked dry by an artificial system that provides alternatives you are expected to acquire, just so the machinery still has electricity to keep it functioning?
The photo is most likely real (many such examples exist, and to me it's akin to a parent attending a PTA meeting about how math is being taught, and being kicked out for daring to question the administration and how the scoring methods will negatively impact their children as well as others.) And if you get into private education you also deal with the same problem where the material is very suspect, depending on their particular leaning (which I might blame on reinforcing group identity such as religious views, or a particular type of gerrymandering that occurs when people want to pretend they are in an exclusive or privileged social class which then gets treated as such.)
The argument could also be, are kids traumatized by teachers who can't teach (because they are at the mercy of a system) or abuse their position of power over them? That question might be based on certain assumptions that a teacher has about the student's ability or lack thereof.
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Lots Of Facebook Users Are Idiots, Says Consumer Reports
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhil ... e94bf3210c
A decade later and nothing has changed. It's surprising how many groups are now satire of the majority of Facebook users (reposting a profile of a woman with a male name, who posts an AI generated image of a Jesus sand sculpture, where the person claims they made it by hand, and the majority of the 6 thousand posts are idiots saying, 'Amen.'
At other times it's an historical image of a black soldier who came back from WW2 where the soldiers were segregated, and who was being harrassed by a bus driver, who reported to the Police that the man was drunk and should be arrested and pulled off from the bus, where he was then proceeded to be struck in the head and eyes from a blackjack, hence why he was wearing dark shaded glasses to conceal the resulting blindness. The idiots seeing this black and white photo circa 1940s than say, "thank you for your service" as if his ghost would magically manifest and nod it's head in their general direction. I doubt the majority of the idiots even bother reading the posts nor question the context of the majority of what they are witnessing.
https://bit.ly/48ER2ix
