Certainly, every student and school ought to have standards and evaluation, but who sets those standards, and who writes the test? Whoever controls the test controls the school.
It's unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there's this need to have things quantified and graded.
I don't understand why we learn what we do for most of it is of no use to us in our careers. To get a grade, students learn just about everything and later none of this is relevant. Grades become more important than learning.
I never look at scores or anything.
The reserve strength is very important in assessing a team's ability.
Everybody that has a measurement, whether it's in teaching or whether it's in your job, you're always worried how you will be measured.
Unfortunately, the real achievements of children on the ground became debased and devalued because Labor education secretaries sounded like Soviet commissars praising the tractor production figures when we know that those exams were not the rock-solid measures of achievement that children deserve.
You should just evaluate the work and make your judgments accordingly. That's the way you do it in life and every other subject.
I just write... if it's really good, it's going on the record. If it's average, it's going in the trash.
I abhor grades - if a child does his best, that's all that should be asked.
