Grades should be considered degrading and unacceptable in measuring a child’s learning development progress
What if I told you that every single day that kids go to school, they are not prepared for life, but for standardized tests? Would you believe me? How could that be possible? When kids go to school they learn things, right? They accumulate knowledge for their future. So if anything, they should be getting smarter, however grades de-emphasize the importance of learning. You should be asking yourself: what is she talking about? Well, I hope I make you realize how grades affect learning.
When kids get back from school, most of the parents ask them “What grade did you get?" instead of "What did you learn today?” Grades are so heavily emphasized, …show more content…
It seems like an innocent question, but if you unravel it, a worrying trend surfaces.
Grades, ideally intended as an effective means to learn, have transformed into a goal in itself. Grades force students to memorize those details necessary to pass a test, often disregarding true comprehension of the subject matter. In this process, the student’s personal development is becoming a footnote, overshadowed by the imperative significance of grades. What are the implications for educational institutions? How effective are they in fulfilling their duty, which is to educate the next generation?
Interestingly, the importance we place on grades within the perimeter of educational facilities does not coincide with the importance companies place on grades. Google’s former Senior Vice President of People Operations, Laszlo Bock, says, “GPA scores are worthless as a criteria for hiring, they do not predict anything.”
Perhaps society’s structural dependence on grades has led to an inflated level of importance that may lead us to develop suboptimal skills that do not translate directly to the
What if I told you that every single day that kids go to school, they are not prepared for life, but for standardized tests? Would you believe me? How could that be possible? When kids go to school they learn things, right? They accumulate knowledge for their future. So if anything, they should be getting smarter, however grades de-emphasize the importance of learning. You should be asking yourself: what is she talking about? Well, I hope I make you realize how grades affect learning.
When kids get back from school, most of the parents ask them “What grade did you get?" instead of "What did you learn today?” Grades are so heavily emphasized, …show more content…
It seems like an innocent question, but if you unravel it, a worrying trend surfaces.
Grades, ideally intended as an effective means to learn, have transformed into a goal in itself. Grades force students to memorize those details necessary to pass a test, often disregarding true comprehension of the subject matter. In this process, the student’s personal development is becoming a footnote, overshadowed by the imperative significance of grades. What are the implications for educational institutions? How effective are they in fulfilling their duty, which is to educate the next generation?
Interestingly, the importance we place on grades within the perimeter of educational facilities does not coincide with the importance companies place on grades. Google’s former Senior Vice President of People Operations, Laszlo Bock, says, “GPA scores are worthless as a criteria for hiring, they do not predict anything.”
Perhaps society’s structural dependence on grades has led to an inflated level of importance that may lead us to develop suboptimal skills that do not translate directly to the