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RE: Red Ink Hurts Self Esteem? - 11/4/2009 1:01:27 PM
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SurpassingPeace
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It's not the same thing! This is school! They are there to learn. That is the primary purpose and with that comes failures and mistakes, hopefully teaching them by correction.
That may be your primary purpose but many kids desperately want to fit in and don't want to be excluded.
I think we will just have to agree to disagree. I don't see either side changing their mind and that is okay. You educate your child as you see fit and I will do the same. That is the groovy thing about this country.
Have a peaceful day.
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RE: Red Ink Hurts Self Esteem? - 11/4/2009 10:35:09 PM
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buckifn
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The days of "school is a place where children go primarily to learn" is long gone..and has been for several decades.
Many schools today are not about learning at all...they are about socialization, bullying, indoctrinating, and political agendas.
VERY LITTLE time is actually spent on helping kids learn....our country's national test scores on a secondary grade level could prob. be achieved by a 3rd grader in Japan.
Wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy back in the 70's at least 45% of my Freshman Lit class needed tutoring in remedial reading skills....and I would be willing to say things have gotten much worse since then....a couple of years ago I took an 18 yr. old foster child to obtain his driving permit and even though he was a Senior in HS he could not sign his name in cursive.
I don't think it would have mattered if his grade was in red or blue ink.
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RE: Red Ink Hurts Self Esteem? - 11/5/2009 1:43:43 AM
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ORIGINAL: SurpassingPeace
Okay, for those of you who think this is a great idea, maybe because life is hard, what would you say to your child when they come home in tears because they are teased for being stupid? You know they are trying their best. You would just tell them, "Buck up kid, life's rough. Get over it." I am just curious.
I'm sorry I came off a little sarcastic in my pevious post about the F thingy. I don't recall ever being teased by another student for being stupid when I got an F on my paper. I did get F's and D's, too. My biggest hurt was not what the kids thought, but how my parents reacted to my grades. My own father was the one who said "You are stupid!"  After that my thoughts were, why try to do better. You can't because dad said you are stupid (the enemy had me believing I was doomed). But, thank God the good things that came from this experience, is, I learned to never say such a thing to our children when a failing grade appeared. Plus, I have forgiven my father for his ignorance in telling me such a hurtful thing. It took along time for me to get over that label. Sorry I went off topic a bit.
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RE: Red Ink Hurts Self Esteem? - 11/5/2009 2:08:06 AM
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OneOfHisJewels
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VERY LITTLE time is actually spent on helping kids learn....our country's national test scores on a secondary grade level could prob. be achieved by a 3rd grader in Japan.
That's because Japan weeds out the less intelligent/dilligent kids early on (as do many of the countries that have "higher" test scores. Besides, I remember one time in high school taking one of those national test..I scored pretty high on most of it...but part of the day I was so bored I just started randomly filling in circles. Those areas I scored low in (well, DUH) I got the idea from another girl. If 2 of us did it, I would imagine many more did.
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RE: Red Ink Hurts Self Esteem? - 11/5/2009 9:41:39 AM
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buckifn
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but part of the day I was so bored I just started randomly filling in circles.
LOL I did that on an IQ test once and still scored 160.
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