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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, Funny) by suburbanitemediocrity on Sunday November 18 2018, @06:37AM (3 children)
As a math major, trivial is one of the most important words. You learn multiple ways to trivially fit it into any sentence.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Pslytely Psycho on Sunday November 18 2018, @07:42AM
That's not a trivial task. Sometimes it's quite difficult to find something trivial enough to utilize the word trivial to describe how trivial it is.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 18 2018, @12:06PM
But in some conversations its utility is negligibly small.
(Score: 2) by arslan on Monday November 19 2018, @12:55AM
It is not as simple as you think...
.. see what I did there?