Long-term trend of higher marks plus pandemic spike sees more top students competing for coveted programs

  • Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    High school grades just seem to be fake at this point.

    My kid and his friends, who graduate this year, never had homework, yet they all have 90%+ grades.

    When I was growing up, you might have had one kid in the class with over a 90 in any given subject, and they worked their ass off every waking hour.

    Now? 20 minutes of ‘work’ a day and they’re acing the class. This doesn’t benefit their future at all.

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      1 year ago

      Maybe teaching has gotten better and so has the means of productivity? If you look at the productivity of corporations, it’s gone up a lot over the past couple of decades. I imagine that can have the same effect on students and teachers. I’ve got nothing to back that up but it’s an interesting thought.

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        1 year ago

        That’s a nice thought, but I know that’s not what’s happening. Even during the pandemic the online classes were extremely basic and still no homework was given.