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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 driverless on Monday November 19 2018, @03:35AM
As additional info, this whole story is so ridiculous sounding (a student called Daniel Snakez, and most news media seems to be re-reporting a story from Australian media, who aren't going to present the most positive view of NZ) that I took the highly unusual step for a web board of trying to track down a definitive source. There is one, the NZQA [nzqa.govt.nz]. Their comment on this is: