Teachers Quit Jobs at Highest Rate on Record

Re:Teachers Quit Jobs at Highest Rate on Record by randomdata on Friday December 28, 2018 @07:45PM (#18780814)

If we accept that the characteristics that grades are meant to represent are dynamic, what is the benefit of recording them at all? They will be perpetually out of date as people continue to learn (and forget).

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Re:Teachers Quit Jobs at Highest Rate on Record by barry-cotter on Friday December 28, 2018 @08:53PM (#18781197)

We don’t accept that. Lots of people think that a grade is meant to represent performance on or by a date, either performance in an exam or performance on some weighted combination of exam and homework.

I’m honestly unsure whether extra credit is even a thing outside the US and it’s near abroad in Canada. I don’t think there’s a single country in Eurasia without a school leaving exam with summative assessment, some of which have a coursework component.

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Re:Teachers Quit Jobs at Highest Rate on Record by mpolichette on Friday December 28, 2018 @08:28PM (#18781063)

I mean, aren’t they pretty much useless within a year of graduation anyway?

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Re:Teachers Quit Jobs at Highest Rate on Record by ineedasername on Friday December 28, 2018 @09:46PM (#18781431)

No, what the grade represents stays the same. It's the grade that's dynamic, changing as the student's knowledge and understanding changes.

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