Sunday, September 15, 2013

Why Abolish Grading ?

Why should we abolish grading? So people can have more to talk about us then they had before? I'm speaking in being a black African American because people are already calling us senseless and that we are dumb. To abolish grading will effect us extremely different. I say that because how would we know where we stand in a class? How would we know if we are passing or failing? All we would know is what we make on a test and what if that's not good enough? Like Paul Goodman said in the proposal " There are several good reasons for testing, and kinds of test. But if the aim is to discover weakness, by faking and bulling, if not cheating!" From my point of view I think he was saying test can only discover someone's weakness because they had no time to improve by not getting graded. Also, he's saying testing will abuse peoples knowledge and make them feel dumb because they thought they knew it, but they actually didn't . I think that we cause more students to drop and not even attendant school anymore. I wonder would I be as smart as I am with by just taking test? Test to me is like do or die either you pass it or you fail. Like EOC it's 25% of your grade that's a lot for just one little test to determine if you pass or not. So with all that being said I don't think that grading should be abolished because like he stated in the piece " The work does not suit me, not this subject, or not at this time, or not in this school, or not in school altogether. School isn't for everybody just as well as taking test isn't for everybody. What would education be like if we only took test?

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