Kids these days - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Stonent
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 11, 2013, 09:35:15 pm
content: My wife teaches Third Grade which is ages 8 to 9 in the US, and this was just too funny not to share.My wife had an issue in her class recently where 2 students working on a project together got vastly different grades. One got a 63 and the other a 35. Once she inquired about it, it looked like one student was purposely telling the other wrong answers. Or as the student put it "not all of the answers I gave him were wrong"And the usual response that she gets nearly every time she asks "Why did you do that?" The answer is "I dunno..."

author: lnx64
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: November 11, 2013, 11:31:49 pm
content: Survival of the fittest.

author: GreyWoolfe
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: November 12, 2013, 12:23:16 am
content: And these are our future leaders

author: c4757p
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 12, 2013, 12:36:50 am
content: I did that once when I was in sixth grade or so - had a partner who refused to do any work at all, so I let him copy mine... before I added 1 back onto every answer to get the correct value and turned it in.We were both little shits. And that little shit totally deserved it.

author: nanofrog
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 12, 2013, 12:37:06 am
content: Kid with the 63 has a future in marketing, and the kid with the 35 has a future in politics.

author: nanofrog
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 12, 2013, 01:35:24 am
content: Quote from: wilfred on November 12, 2013, 12:58:16 amI do think there are some intelligent ones (lie to people as a means of manipulation of public opionion, but genuinely know the truth).But we have some actual idiots here in US politics. One I thought of immediately after reading the OP, is Sheila Jackson Lee (Representative, Texas). She literally believed that Neil Armstrong planted the US flag on Mars rather than the Moon, and that's just one example from her.

author: c4757p
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 12, 2013, 01:36:29 am
content: They're all either well-meaning idiots or intelligent con artists. I don't really care to differentiate which is which.

author: Stonent
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 12, 2013, 02:19:35 am
content: It does bother me sometimes when I help her grade and see the low scores kids get. Many times it boils down to her saying "read all the instructions carefully" and they just go off and do it the way they want.She teaches social studies and the curriculum for third grade is understanding communities. So she'll have work for them like "Give 3 examples of natural resources in your community" and they'll put something completely random.They have a policy of if a child gets a failing grade on an assignment, the assignment gets sent home for the parent to review with them and then the parent signs the piece of paper signifying that they did so and then the student is allowed to correct their work and it is regraded.She says most parents just seem to sign the paper and there was no evidence that they reviewed it.Or they may send her nasty e-mail saying that their precious snowflake is being treated unfairly.

author: dfmischler
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 12, 2013, 02:20:27 am
content: My wife has taught fourth grade (mostly 9 year olds) for about 25 years.When our first dog was a puppy, she destroyed a child's homework paper before my wife could correct it. She gave the child a note saying that her dog had eaten the child's homework, and that the child received an "A" for the work. (For non-US readers this is quite funny because an over-used excuse that every kid hears about is to claim that "My dog ate my homework"). The event became legend in the school, and for years it seemed that kids were purposely spilling food on their papers to try to get the teacher's dog to eat their homework, too.Foreshadowing? One kid decided to "test" how well she knew the answers to computerized quizzes on books she had been reading by using her younger brother's account. I guess she talked him into giving her his password. This way she could find out the questions she couldn't answer and check them in the book before taking the quiz under her own name. She didn't get caught until the following year when her brother tried to take the same quizzes she had "tested" and the computer system said he couldn't because he had already taken them. Geez, white collar crime in the fourth grade!

author: Unknown
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: November 12, 2013, 05:51:24 am
content: Quote from: wilfred on November 12, 2013, 02:17:37 amTo be fair to her she was only an aspiring politician, and had the good grace to fall on her sword when pushed.Quote

author: madshaman
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 12, 2013, 05:55:25 am
content: Quote from: wilfred on November 12, 2013, 12:58:16 am+one millionIt takes a lot of insight to realise this.

author: madshaman
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 12, 2013, 05:58:06 am
content: I think some of you guys go about this the wrong way. A better approach is to just feed the *right* answers, as much as the other wants.That's a lot meaner because you're sabotaging their learning process.