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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: 3, Interesting) by archfeld on Sunday November 18 2018, @01:51AM (2 children)
LOL, I've not thought of that in years. Heinlein is amongst my favorite authors. I grew up reading his stuff. Have Space Suit Will Travel. I grok SCI-FI and Fantasy because of Michael Valentine Smith, and the adventures of Deety and Zeb, and the total irreverence of Job; A comedy of Justice. Long live Rudbek of Rudbek :)
For the NSA : Explosives, guns, assassination, conspiracy, primers, detonators, initiators, main charge, nuclear charge
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 18 2018, @02:56AM (1 child)
I may have to re-read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job:_A_Comedy_of_Justice [wikipedia.org] sometime. I was raised without any organized religion and I read it when I was too young and naive to understand all the satire. Since then my natural curiosity has led me to study religion a bit (but not enough to get me to attend a regular service at a house of worship).
The one scene that stuck in my memory is after the rapture: guys from the 3rd world were given housing with bathrooms with sinks for the first time in their lives...and proceeded to use them as urinals.
(Score: 2) by Demena on Sunday November 18 2018, @10:44PM
He would have seen that when passing through Aus in '54. That sort of stuff still happens.