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I spent some of my highschool years in a differnt country in boarding school and grades and class rank where constantly posted for everyone to see It brought ou

I spent some of my highschool years in a differnt country in boarding school and grades and class rank where constantly posted for everyone to see It brought out a real competitive spirit in me and in the whole class and maybe a little shame for the the people at the bottom of the list . I thought It was a very effective tool in keeping the class as whole engaged but that type of thing would never be allowed in the US for multitude of reasons.

songzme 13y ago
The reason that class ranking is not prevalent in US is because of publicly shaming the students who are not doing as well as the other. This can be mitigated if students are working in groups, and group scores are posted instead of individual scores. This way, a group who is scoring low can help and inspire each other to do well and share the pain (shame)
- rdouble 13y ago
  In American public schools, class ranking leads to public shaming of the students who are doing well...
  - aspensmonster 13y ago
    Depends on the school. At the public high school I attended --several years on various top 100 lists and top 10 in the state-- class ranking was most definitely a shaming of the "weird" minority of kids who were taking "normal" classes. These normal classes were on a completely different scoring tier that ensured the students taking them could not even break the 50th percentile. And coming from Texas, where getting into the top 10 percent of your graduating class is an automatic ticket to any state university, the competition was most definitely fierce.
mpyne 13y ago
That's what we do when training the Navy nukes here in the U.S.
nollidge 13y ago
> that type of thing would never be allowed in the US for multitude of reasons I'm American and we had that in my high school.
- OnyeaboAduba 13y ago
  Maybe Im wrong but I dont think its at the level in to which it was applied at the school I attended Im talking every test, every subjectm, rankings where posted . Maybe you had that at your highschool but I was told by several teachers when I came back to the states this pratice would cause some serious legal troubles for any school who tried it here....they also beat you at these schools if you had poor grades so its not a utopia by any means

songzme 13y ago

The reason that class ranking is not prevalent in US is because of publicly shaming the students who are not doing as well as the other. This can be mitigated if students are working in groups, and group scores are posted instead of individual scores. This way, a group who is scoring low can help and inspire each other to do well and share the pain (shame)

rdouble 13y ago
In American public schools, class ranking leads to public shaming of the students who are doing well...
- aspensmonster 13y ago
  Depends on the school. At the public high school I attended --several years on various top 100 lists and top 10 in the state-- class ranking was most definitely a shaming of the "weird" minority of kids who were taking "normal" classes. These normal classes were on a completely different scoring tier that ensured the students taking them could not even break the 50th percentile. And coming from Texas, where getting into the top 10 percent of your graduating class is an automatic ticket to any state university, the competition was most definitely fierce.

mpyne 13y ago

That's what we do when training the Navy nukes here in the U.S.

nollidge 13y ago

> that type of thing would never be allowed in the US for multitude of reasons I'm American and we had that in my high school.

OnyeaboAduba 13y ago
Maybe Im wrong but I dont think its at the level in to which it was applied at the school I attended Im talking every test, every subjectm, rankings where posted . Maybe you had that at your highschool but I was told by several teachers when I came back to the states this pratice would cause some serious legal troubles for any school who tried it here....they also beat you at these schools if you had poor grades so its not a utopia by any means