Playing to teh tests?
It will all work out. Most people learn most of what they know after leave school.
This is both true, and false.
I had a good friend, that dated a women who was an extremely lazy parent.
Her kid managed to go through --- all the way school, nearly w/o ever learning to read. I shit you not.
Now, the kid did NOT have a learning disability, he was just lazy. REALLY lazy, just as was she was. No father in the home. The definition of poor white trash, and a bit nutty.
The kid loved video games, and by the time that kid went through puberty, and got a smart phone, he wanted to fully enjoy the internet.
So? HE FORCED himself to learn to read. He did this by having those internet bots tell him what words were. . . by speaking into a the device, and noticing what words were, when he spoke them.
By the time he was in his mid-twenties, he finally figured out how to read at about a third or forth grade level.
Now. . . given how bright this individual was, that he was motivated enough to teach himself to read because he wanted to be able to interact with . . . ehm,
"girls," and get better jobs. .
If the school system he went to had actually been better, and not passed on failing students the DID have that ability to test more, and enforce the test results?
SO no, not only do we need tests? And grades? There needs to be consequences. Often times? There are not.
And many of these folks would have much more success in life if there were.
Teachers pass failing students despite evidence showing holding them back might help them: Report
Research has yet to persuade opponents of grade retention, columnist Jay Mathews wrote
A Washington Post columnist wrote that while research shows grade retention is beneficial, the education system is deeply divided over how to address academic struggles.
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