There are school systems where teachers are not allowed to give anything less than a D equivalent grade, even if the student didn't engage with the assignment at all. I would panic if I found out my kid went to such a school!
Then there are the systems which only teach "theoretical" work. I had a student who said he could program, passed a bunch of classes called "programming in C++" and such, only to learn he hadn't written a program ever -- he had just been taught the theory of writing a program. It's like taking calculus but never doing an integral.
The spread of things like ChatGPT is going to make things worse. And there's a whole lot of parents who are certain their precious offspring are (well) above average. Wasn't that a feature of Lake Wobegone? EDIT: and how common is the attitude "I paid a lot for your product, give me the grades..."?
tonetheman•1h ago
Which would mean if we were willing to shut things down like we did we should be willing to take the secondary effects and solve those problems too.
rogerrogerr•1h ago
piva00•52m ago
Your take is stupid, that's how discourse goes now though, stupid hot takes from people who don't want to think, ponied up as some grand opinion while padded with derision and cynicism.
It's just stupid... And quite tiresome, be better.
getnormality•1h ago
On the other hand, negative performance trends started in the early 2010s, and this may be more associated with the phone-based childhood.