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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: 2) by http on Sunday November 18 2018, @11:21PM (1 child)
Before the brief 90s phenomenon of the board game "Trivial Pursuit", I had never heard the word used outside of undergraduate math classes. Your experience is not universal, and neither is mine, but your absolute insistence suggests an unwillingness on your part to imagine someone else's experience.
Sadly, the disease is common enough that there's a name for it.
I browse at -1 when I have mod points. It's unsettling.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday November 18 2018, @11:40PM
Hi, welcome to the world with the Internet, http. My experience is hardly isolated given the global forums everyone interacts in nowadays.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.