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This is great for students who want to learn but as something that is offered to the general public it will fail because too many students want to do the minimu
by FollowSteph3 10y ago
This is great for students who want to learn but as something that is offered to the general public it will fail because too many students want to do the minimum possible to graduate. That being said I think it's a great idea to try in schools with highly motivated students.
- true_religion 10y agoIt would seem odd to actually have 'children' do this, as it appears in the article. Trained adults can't pick the difference between a good teacher and a bad, I can hardly expect kids to find who isn't a good liar.
- ludamad 10y agoSome teachers just had a toxic attitude, that was pretty clear as a kid. Also children can certainly be discerning in a subject they enjoy. Not completely related, but I once cried in class because a teacher was teaching BEDMAS wrong, 1 + 2 - 1 + 2 = 0 type of deal.
- cperciva 10y agoAre trained adults unable to tell the difference between good teachers and bad, or are they merely unable to do anything about it? When I was in high school, everybody -- the students, the parents, the administrators, and other teachers -- knew who the good teachers were and who the bad teachers were. But they had seniority and were protected by the union, so the school couldn't get rid of them; and since the school couldn't get rid of the bad teachers, they had to assign students blindly (since if students could pick which English 11 class they took, nobody would take the one with the lousy teacher).
- FollowSteph3 10y agoYou're absolutely right, this is the problem that should really be solved. The other is a workaround because it's a lot easier to implement. Kind of like applying a quick hack to code rather than refactoring or re-architecturing.