No more spelling test!

[ScornedVixen]

A school in Gloucester has scrapped the spelling test as they felt children were finding them "unnecessarily distressing" and it leaves them with a sense of failure!

Totally agree with that statement! while they are at it, why not abolish math, if I remember correctly I came at the bottom of the class time and again because literally I was crap at it, it made me feel ashamed to turn up at school and I felt it was unnecessarily distressing me, science left me with a sense of failure too, as well did Chemistry. While we are at the subject why not just abolish the whole f***ing lessons, ban schools, ban education, ban everything and support dumbing down culture with grace.

is the matter with people who come up with ideas like that?! Back to school loser!

Vix

[cerina]

The whole education system seems to going to hell in a handcart.

Do away with all competition, anything that might make a child feel any degree of disappointment and you are really preparing them well for life in the world. You can now take GCSE Geography without ever opening an atlas.

[Don't Blink]

that is way they mack wood checkers

[~PC~]

A school in Gloucester has scrapped the spelling test as they felt children were finding them "unnecessarily distressing" and it leaves them with a sense of failure!

For thousands of years, kids have been going to schools of some sort and having spelling tests. Why is it that now, all of a sudden, the kids are finding them "unnecessarily distressing."

I remember reading stories of kids earlier this century that had the back of their hands whacked with a wooden ruler every time they spelled a word wrong. They freakin well learned those words pronto! ...and when they did learn them, they had a sense of accomplishment.

Looking back, I would have preferred a more disciplined schooling and early life as I'm not a particularly disciplined person.

[Maxie]

I remember reading stories of kids earlier this century that had the back of their hands whacked with a wooden ruler every time they spelled a word wrong. They freakin well learned those words pronto! ...and when they did learn them, they had a sense of accomplishment.

Looking back, I would have preferred a more disciplined schooling and early life as I'm not a particularly disciplined person.

Great lord i had teachers like that and i am not a century old

[~PC~]

Great lord i had teachers like that and i am not a century old

Oooops! Let me rephrase that...

[cerina]

I remember reading stories of kids earlier this century that had the back of their hands whacked with a wooden ruler every time they spelled a word wrong. They freakin well learned those words pronto! ...and when they did learn them, they had a sense of accomplishment.

Looking back, I would have preferred a more disciplined schooling and early life as I'm not a particularly disciplined person.

Great lord i had teachers like that and i am not a century old

So did I and neither am I.


But I am damned good at spelling.

[ScornedVixen]

Personally I think they are scrapping it as it shows how much time parents have for their children, none. At my sons school they are impressed with the way my son passes each level of reading skills and keeps moving on to the next level, they were equally impressed to find that I had taken the time to go through the book with the boy, and to test him whether he read the whole words or scrim. Testing him on spellings that were in the book. apparently not many parents bother or have the time.

It is all bullshit that the scrappings is for the chldren themselves, as it would cause long term damage actually, it is more of resigning to the fact that parents don't support homeworks and such. It is not going to bode well for the children in the future as I've never met an employer who is happy to molly coddle employees if they get distressed at having to spell check their work, or to tally the books!

Vix

[Spirit of Desire]

Well, I am currently mixed up in the education system.

When I left high school when I was 16 it was difficult to do GCSE's. It just was, coursework was hard and tests were murder, but we dived in and if we didn't do it right then we were yelled at and kept behind untill we did.

That was 3 years ago, now I see people complaining about exams because they are too stressful, they wouldnt be so stressful if teachers actually taught properly. But its not even (with a few exeptions) the teachers fault. They teach what they are told to.

But it has changed so much in just 3 years that I dont hold much hope in education anymore.

[cerina]

Unfortunately, education is one of the areas where governments delight in making changes and teachers don't have time to adjust to one change before another is imposed on them. The curriculum has changed so much in the time you have been out of education, SPoD, that it is surprising anyone gets to pass their exams because of the confusion caused.

[ScornedVixen]

but pass rates for A levels were at an all time high last year, or was it earlier this year?

[cerina]

From The Timesonline, May 30 2008. Read the comments at the end.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/student/student_life/article4034471.ece