Parents appeal required use of report cards

Post #42,170 by bluke 6/13/02 7:30:51 AM Reply	Parents appeal required use of report cards [link\|http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/74242_parents12.shtml\|Parents appeal required use of report cards] "Parents who say they don't want their children being graded, labeled and compared are challenging Seattle Public Schools' mandatory use of report cards."
Post #42,177 by SpiceWare 6/13/02 9:29:22 AM Reply	Interesting wonder what these parents think of their annual review/pay raise... Darrell Spice, Jr. [link\|http://home.houston.rr.com/spiceware/\|SpiceWare] - We don't do Windows, it's too much of a chore
Post #42,208 by jb4 6/13/02 12:29:45 PM Reply	Exactly the same... ...Just as they want automatic annual pay increases without showing any value to their company, they want automatic promotions without showing any increase in capability. Around here (Chicago area), we call that "social promotion". Works in business too. (Hey, maybe we really are training them for the "real world"...) jb4 "I remember Harry S. Truman's sign on his desk. 'The buck stops here.' Strange how those words, while still true, mean something completely different today." -- Brandioch
Post #42,194 by bepatient 6/13/02 11:25:24 AM Reply	First Dodgeball...now this? The wimpification of America continues. You were born...and so you're free...so Happy Birthday! _{Laurie Anderson} [link\|mailto:bepatient@aol.com\|BePatient]
Post #42,197 by admin 6/13/02 11:40:31 AM Reply	Hey, dodgeball is great... ... if you aren't the skinny kid with the glasses getting beaned in the head so much you ended up with a bloody nose every time it got played. Dodgeball fucking scarred my childhood. That game, and the instructors who thought it was fun to watch, can fucking rot in hell. Regards, -scott anderson "Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
Post #42,207 by inthane-chan 6/13/02 12:29:31 PM Reply	Hadn't thought about it that way. I couldn't catch worth a damn, but I was pretty much always the last guy being tagged on our team - had an almost gymnastic dodge ability. I'd go dance on the dividing line, which would set up easy catches for my team - was one of my most favorite games. But yeah, being the punching bag ain't fun, game or no game. InThane - Now running Ashton rev 2.0
Post #42,292 by ben_tilly 6/13/02 8:13:18 PM Reply	Glad I didn't have glasses Cause I was the skinny kid that was everyone's favorite target. But after they tagged me out, I got to leave the game, and they didn't bother aiming for my head. Now snowball fights, well lemme just be glad that where I lived we did not get it very often. :-( Cheers, Ben "... I couldn't see how anyone could be educated by this self-propagating system in which people pass exams, teach others to pass exams, but nobody knows anything." --Richard Feynman
Post #42,320 by static 6/14/02 2:25:36 AM Reply	We used to call that branding. And the PE teachers therefore didn't condone it. :-) Closest we got to that was something we called Mat-ball. Two high-jump mats on each end, two teams, the idea was to get the ball on the mat to score and other rules netball-ish. Defense seemed to consist of physically blocking the other players... Quite a great "contact" sport for mixed teams. (-: Wade. "Ah. One of the difficult questions."
Post #42,322 by static 6/14/02 2:32:18 AM Reply	Dumbth indeed. I am involved in a way to computerise school student reporting and monitoring. I'm not sure how much I can say, but the idea we are going to implement is called (I think) "Criterion Reference" where each subject has a tiered system of Outcomes that map a student's abilities and progress through the subject. These are assessed throughout the term by assigning particular outcomes to work, so that at the end of a reporting period, we have a performance graph of each student against the subject (not against each other, though that can be done). Some of our clients are already using a precursor to this system that even allows then to completely dispense with marks (though they aren't yet). Wade. "Ah. One of the difficult questions."
Post #42,326 by Ashton 6/14/02 3:48:05 AM Reply	A heartwarming trend in the making.. (not against each other, though that can be done) Heh, in a New York MINUTE it WILL BE << Perhaps too, those who don't quite measure-up to the Norm, shall have certain flags raised in their embedded microchip which processes them forward towards ---> a Wonderful and homogeneous existence in which they -- I forget -- what was it they were Supposed to do- become- be- ?? Ah yes: productive members of the database. (Easy to forget, for my having come from primitive surroundings with different Valuez, most of which never followed me around digitally.) Well, I can see that the first thing your data-points can Kiss Off forever is: any chance of moving somewhere and er 'staring over'. Oh well.. Keep an eye on the tykes for a couple decades, please and tell us how they -do- (\ufffd 1 or 2 SDs that is -- anyone who doesn't meet their projected AQ (Accomplishment Quota) won't be of much continuing Interest, natch.) You must be very proud to be assisting in this process(ing). Alas, it conjures up for me, give a man a hammer and... I mean - I Knew these machines Would be trouble; I didn't think it'd happen so fast, and with so little questioning of the consequences. Ashton (Of course I may have gotten the wrong impression re these 'projected expectations'; perhaps the records of achievers/non-achievers Won't! follow then forever, along with their genetic defects [cc: to Insurance Ministry]) Maybe just a local teacher will use the info to help gauge if his teaching is at all working, and then: destroy all the files.. after every term. Izzat it? {Whew} for a minute there..
Post #42,325 by Ashton 6/14/02 3:21:21 AM Reply	The Prisoner applauds.. Him/her who would not be stamped, stapled, graded, spindled, mutilated, registered, numbered, measured, rated, categorized, sorted or ... uniformed. [And we know he was Not a Good Organization man...] Of course such obvious deviants are in opposition to the orderly processing of the material from womb to cradle to confinement in desk-chair and onwards to ---> full-time-cubicle. Likely such a plan would render this material unacceptable to the normal incoming HR-inspection lasers and cause these materials to be stamped immediately, USDA - Rejected Clearly there is No Place in Our Culture for: The Unrated Case closed. Soylent Green is too good a fate for Uninspected Raw Corporate material. For green is the color of money. (Who knows what Other subversive dogma is instilled in these {shudder}, secret unVideotaped! "home schools" !?!) I believe this is a clear case for The Home Security Police. ^%$&#& Commie-Pinko Conservatives* !! They're gettin Uppity again...
Post #42,765 by wharris2 6/18/02 1:08:01 PM Reply	Twits Famous last RPG quotes: "I'll just shoot this fireball down the dungeon passageway..."

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