Re: grades, pass/fail etc.

[Bernard Cleyet <anngeorg@PACBELL.NET>]

"Right.

Teaching the ones who want to be there is a jillion times
easier than teaching the ones who are only there because
it's required."


My radical solution is for HS students to take only the courses they desire.

My idea is an extension of the California Community College mission. i.e. a method
for previously unmotivated students to get the education they thought unnecessary,
whether for four year institution preparation or, more narrowly, for a specific job
qualification.  In other words change the mission of HS from teen warehousing and
socialization (read indoctrination) to education whether in Art, Hip Hop and break
dancing, or Physics.  Thereby, teachers will have motivated gentil(wo)men whose
average age will be ~20 instead of sixteen.

bc  whose HS teaching is quite limited, but taught three identical chem. courses, two
were required the third not, and found the difference astounding.


"John S. Denker" wrote:

> Thomas O'Neill wrote in part:
> > ... While I was certainly interested in my Chemistry
> > classes, my desire to take History (especially in my senior year when I had
> > more intellectually stimulating things to do) was minimal, if not actually

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This posting is the position of the writer, not that of SUNY-BSC, NAU or the AAPT.