Grades aren't the be-all and end-all of a child's education. If a child in 7th Grade receives a poor report (i.e. mostly fails), then they will get the idea that they are a total failure. This may serve to motivate the child, but I think it's more likely that it will do the opposite, and the child will stop caring.
That being said, I know that in the "real world" people are graded every day. It's just a question of how you introduce the concept of grading to 12-13 year olds.
When I went to school we got grades in 8th grade, now they want to start grading children from second grade
-9 years old). And grading is not constructive without motivation and telling the student how to improve themselves.
-9 years old). And grading is not constructive without motivation and telling the student how to improve themselves.But you know, jo, it has been shown that if there is a grade, the comments and suggestions for improvements are ignored. Basic psychology.
There's also a lot of debate about this in Australia. However, people fail to realise that about 40% of the student body goes to private schools, and private schools get about 25-30% of the Federal Government's allocated funding for schools. A lot of the funding for private schools comes directly from the parents - and not all the parents of kids at private schools are lawyers who drive a BMW, have a Porsche in the garage and a holiday house up the coast where they spend every second weekend.
Here the percentage is much less, and virtually no money comes from the parents.
Well, that would depend. If you want to take public money for your school, you cannot have fees. However, there are a couple which only takes rich man's boys. Those have fees.
What do you mean by legal age here. Is it the age of consent, or the legal drinking age?
Drinking age, driving age, and voting age I was thinking about mostly. Age of consent I can't really say much about. If two consenting people near the same age have sex I'm fine with it, it's hard to say A 16 year old can't have sex with a 15 year old because the law says the age of consent is 16 or equivalent for other ages. The law here has to be flexible which it is here in Sweden already, one reason I didn't mention it. I think age of consent here is 15 but I am not sure.
perhaps you are after the age of majority?
Here you can drive if you have under 0.0002% alcohol(if I've translated promille to percentage correctly, you can look up promille in wikipedia) in your body. But that is no matter how long you've had a license.
You really need to go back to school. Whereas percent is based on per hundred, promille (which I am unsure if it is used anywhere else) is per thousand. So that would be 0.02%. Now, go back and repeat your maths.
"People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world" - Calvin.
Some changes Sweden really need.
- 28/09/2009 01:38:41 PM
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Wow, so much to disagree with, I think my brain over-loaded
- 28/09/2009 01:54:16 PM
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So... brains aren't fully developed until 20, but 16 year olds should be tried as adults?
- 28/09/2009 07:30:49 PM
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No, as juveniles?
- 28/09/2009 08:42:42 PM
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Sweden's driving age is 18?
- 28/09/2009 09:27:16 PM
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Re: Sweden's driving age is 18?
- 29/09/2009 10:30:50 AM
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Interesting
- 29/09/2009 02:08:42 AM
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Re: Interesting
- 29/09/2009 07:04:27 AM
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Re: Interesting
- 29/09/2009 10:49:35 AM
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I doubt it
- 29/09/2009 12:46:45 PM
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Re: Interesting
- 29/09/2009 11:43:49 AM
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