F's Education System
Why our education system does not need more F’s
There are many fundamental things wrong with our educational system. Children seem to not understand that getting good grades are integral to success. Carl Singleton, in his essay “What our Education System Needs is More F’s”, believes that the answer to this dilemma comes in teachers giving more failing grades to all the children who do not learn the material. I feel that this is not the best answer to this issue. Due to bell curve dynamics are staring to be considered essential for educators and curriculum developers. Not only that but kids get discouraged by failing grades, I believe that our education system would be made worse, not better, by creating a system where children are set …show more content…
up to fail, instead of being nurtured, encouraged, and helped by teachers to succeed in their classes.
Many children go to school because they have to, not because they want to.
This is due to the fact that they really do not want to learn. They do not understand the importance of education in our society. Singleton attempts to support his view by claiming that failing grades will make parents support their children in forcing them at home to forward their studies. “Sending students home with final grades of F would force most parents to deal with the realities of their children 's failure while it is happening and when it is yet possible to do something about it (less time on TV, and more time on homework, perhaps!).” (Singleton, 2010) Many of these children have uneducated parents. Many of these children’s parents really do not care about education, since they haven’t been with such education. Failing grades would not have the initial effect on many of those children. Instead of forcing the child to get better grades, a failing grade would convince many of these children to just drop out. This will lead to many more drop-outs. The only way to truly save these kids from this fate is to keep them in school. A more reasonable way to do this is to have teachers support these kids more, as well as having the parents interact more with the teachers. If teachers talk more to the parents then the teachers might be able to get through to those parents the importance of an education to their son or daughters …show more content…
future. Bell curve are a very tricky subject to understand.
A bell curve is an educational evaluation system that helps to both “grade” teachers, as well as allows curriculum developers to see how the “average” student is faring with the curriculum. Many teachers are actually evaluated based on the bell curve of their classrooms. If teachers gave out F 's to all the students who did not learn the material, the normal bell curve would lopsided toward the failing side. With it looking like they were not doing their job of teaching all the students correctly, they would end up losing their jobs. Singleton attempts to convey that this would be solved by teachers merely working harder to get kids to pass. “Insisting on respecting the line between passing and failing would also require us to demand as much of ourselves as of our students.” Singleton writes. “As every teacher knows, A failed student can be the product of a failed teacher.” (Singleton, 2010) teachers already give their best effort to teach these kids. Many teachers spend as many, or more, of their own hours preparing their lessons than they require of the students they teach. Yet it would be impossible to see this effort conveyed on the evaluating scale if the children who really do not want to learn get all F’s. How can you evaluate teachers if the grades are all F 's if students don 't learn and other grades if they do? How can you tell that the teacher actually tried to teach these children? The whole
predication of our public education system is that the teachers teach everyone the basic skills that they need to both excel in life and get into college.
There are many fundamental things wrong with our educational system. Both the curriculum and teachers have compromised their knowledge down to compensate for their students lack of effort. Carl Singleton believes that merely giving out more failing grades will fix this problem. However, there are more problems caused by his ideas than solutions.
Works Cited
Singleton, Carl. "What Our Education System Needs Is More F 's." Writing from Sources. By Brenda Spatt. Bedford/st Martins, 2010. 192-94. Print.
There are many fundamental things wrong with our educational system. Children seem to not understand that getting good grades are integral to success. Carl Singleton, in his essay “What our Education System Needs is More F’s”, believes that the answer to this dilemma comes in teachers giving more failing grades to all the children who do not learn the material. I feel that this is not the best answer to this issue. Due to bell curve dynamics are staring to be considered essential for educators and curriculum developers. Not only that but kids get discouraged by failing grades, I believe that our education system would be made worse, not better, by creating a system where children are set …show more content…
up to fail, instead of being nurtured, encouraged, and helped by teachers to succeed in their classes.
Many children go to school because they have to, not because they want to.
This is due to the fact that they really do not want to learn. They do not understand the importance of education in our society. Singleton attempts to support his view by claiming that failing grades will make parents support their children in forcing them at home to forward their studies. “Sending students home with final grades of F would force most parents to deal with the realities of their children 's failure while it is happening and when it is yet possible to do something about it (less time on TV, and more time on homework, perhaps!).” (Singleton, 2010) Many of these children have uneducated parents. Many of these children’s parents really do not care about education, since they haven’t been with such education. Failing grades would not have the initial effect on many of those children. Instead of forcing the child to get better grades, a failing grade would convince many of these children to just drop out. This will lead to many more drop-outs. The only way to truly save these kids from this fate is to keep them in school. A more reasonable way to do this is to have teachers support these kids more, as well as having the parents interact more with the teachers. If teachers talk more to the parents then the teachers might be able to get through to those parents the importance of an education to their son or daughters …show more content…
future. Bell curve are a very tricky subject to understand.
A bell curve is an educational evaluation system that helps to both “grade” teachers, as well as allows curriculum developers to see how the “average” student is faring with the curriculum. Many teachers are actually evaluated based on the bell curve of their classrooms. If teachers gave out F 's to all the students who did not learn the material, the normal bell curve would lopsided toward the failing side. With it looking like they were not doing their job of teaching all the students correctly, they would end up losing their jobs. Singleton attempts to convey that this would be solved by teachers merely working harder to get kids to pass. “Insisting on respecting the line between passing and failing would also require us to demand as much of ourselves as of our students.” Singleton writes. “As every teacher knows, A failed student can be the product of a failed teacher.” (Singleton, 2010) teachers already give their best effort to teach these kids. Many teachers spend as many, or more, of their own hours preparing their lessons than they require of the students they teach. Yet it would be impossible to see this effort conveyed on the evaluating scale if the children who really do not want to learn get all F’s. How can you evaluate teachers if the grades are all F 's if students don 't learn and other grades if they do? How can you tell that the teacher actually tried to teach these children? The whole
predication of our public education system is that the teachers teach everyone the basic skills that they need to both excel in life and get into college.
There are many fundamental things wrong with our educational system. Both the curriculum and teachers have compromised their knowledge down to compensate for their students lack of effort. Carl Singleton believes that merely giving out more failing grades will fix this problem. However, there are more problems caused by his ideas than solutions.
Works Cited
Singleton, Carl. "What Our Education System Needs Is More F 's." Writing from Sources. By Brenda Spatt. Bedford/st Martins, 2010. 192-94. Print.