> > I think we should get reports like kids get at school. As it stands at the moment, you don't know how you're doing with life right up until God hands out your final pass/fail grade. I think this is inefficient as well as blatantly unfair.
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> > We should get a written report perhaps twice a year, letting us know what we're doing right, what things we can improve on, and where we stand in relation to everybody else our age in the entire world. We need to get authoritative marks out of 100 for things like our sense of humour, our attractiveness, our driving skills and our ability to make predictions about what politicians will really do if we vote for them. I think this would remove a lot of the uncertainty from life and quite frankly I'm amazed that it hasn't already been put in place.
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> > Brunnen-"Your sarcasm is still well below its potential capacity. Please try harder next year"G
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> Speaking of report cards; did you know that schools get report cards to show them what kind of job they are doing? At least in Tennessee, they do. The report cards are published right there in the paper. You look down the list and see how your school is doing. I suppose it is intended to be a motivator, but I think it's used in other ways.
> School boards use it to minumize teachers' raises.
> Legislators use it to shift state money to their district.
> Administrators use it brow beat those who make less money than they do.
> Children use it to taunt other children.(Hah! You're a dummy, because you go to a dummy school.)
> Parents use it as an excuse to tell teachers how to teach. (They've always done that. But now they have an excuse.)
> Editors use it to fill up space in hopes of selling a few more newspapers.
> Students use it to explain their miserable report cards."No wonder, I can't make good grades! My school has failed to teach me.")
> How"C average"ard
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I just read my own post and it makes me wonder.
I've been out of teaching for about nine years now and I still can't resist taking a dig at school boards. I wonder if I need help?
Howard