Frankly, I would have given him a D for the spelling errors alone.
Aside from that, the grammar is all but nonexistant.
Even if I was being extremely kind, I would feel that was being remiss in my duty as a teacher if i scored it higher than a B-.
I'm not shocked that they locked him up. I'm cynical enough that I've come to expect that sort of thing. There are two things that shock me.
The first thing, obviously, is how easy it is to get an A these days. I would have flunked out of english writing drivel like that 10 years ago.
The second thing is the discrepency between the school's description of the student to the press and their description they put on his report card.
His report card says that he is an "Outstanding" student, while the school told the press that he is a "consistent discipline problem"
I used to work for a software company that sold their wares exclusively to the primary education industry. I dealt with public school educators day in and day out. Dozens of them every day, hundreds of them in a month. In my unqualified opinion, our education system should be burnt to the ground and rebuilt from scratch.
Disclaimers: I am not a teacher, but both of my parents are.
Re:What a '100%' counts for (Score:2)
Frankly, I would have given him a D for the spelling errors alone.
Aside from that, the grammar is all but nonexistant.
Even if I was being extremely kind, I would feel that was being remiss in my duty as a teacher if i scored it higher than a B-.
I'm not shocked that they locked him up. I'm cynical enough that I've come to expect that sort of thing. There are two things that shock me.
The first thing, obviously, is how easy it is to get an A these days. I would have flunked out of english writing drivel like that 10 years ago.
The second thing is the discrepency between the school's description of the student to the press and their description they put on his report card.
His report card says that he is an "Outstanding" student, while the school told the press that he is a "consistent discipline problem"
I used to work for a software company that sold their wares exclusively to the primary education industry. I dealt with public school educators day in and day out. Dozens of them every day, hundreds of them in a month. In my unqualified opinion, our education system should be burnt to the ground and rebuilt from scratch.
Disclaimers: I am not a teacher, but both of my parents are.