New Zealand has sunk to a new low in modern education. A number of high school students have started a petition to not be failed on a national history exam as they did not understand the meaning of the word 'trivial'. For those not in the know, trivial means "of little value or importance" which aptly describes this petition given that it is being made by grade 13 high school students who by all rights should know the meaning of this word. More than 2400 people have signed the petition 'expressing their frustration with the exam question'. Student Logan Stadnyk claimed that he was "lucky" to have known what the word meant, as half his class didn't. "New Zealand History Teachers' Association chairman Graeme Ball has sided with the students calling the exam a 'little bit of a snafu'" but not providing an adequate answer as to why students in grade 13 would not understand a common English word.
Have the three Rs lost all meaning in schools? Are we failing our students? Or is this just another case of today's teens being snowflakes?
(Score: 4, Insightful) by archfeld on Saturday November 17 2018, @11:19PM (4 children)
"...Anybody with a TRIVIAL understanding of..."
I think the word you are seeking is rudimentary.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trivial [merriam-webster.com]
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rudimentary [merriam-webster.com]
For the NSA : Explosives, guns, assassination, conspiracy, primers, detonators, initiators, main charge, nuclear charge
(Score: 3, Funny) by BsAtHome on Saturday November 17 2018, @11:31PM (3 children)
Artistic freedom
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 17 2018, @11:46PM (2 children)
Artistic License ;-)
(Score: 3, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Sunday November 18 2018, @12:51AM (1 child)
I didn't know autistics had to get licenses.
(Score: 3, Touché) by linkdude64 on Sunday November 18 2018, @01:43AM
When it's weaponized (or you're in England), of course they do.