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hedgie:
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--- Quote from: cesium133 on 21 Aug 2014, 16:01 ---About your signature:
--- Quote ---"I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or god persuade a thousand cats to do anything at the same time" -- Neil Gaiman
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Have you tried opening a can of cat food?
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Even then, with a thousand cats the chances are good that some of them will not notice, not care, not like that particular brand or simply be asleep.
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Or high on catnip, or chasing invisible insects, or shredding/pissing on something that you rather like (It's much easier to reply once someone else has taken the trouble of writing about half of what I would have written).
Barmymoo:
For small children, the parents/guardians are probably the best ones to set the goals they want the kids to achieve, but it still seems weird to me that this would begin and end with "get more marks than 95% of the other people". Surely a goal like "learn to read" or "be able to count to 50" would be more useful?
I don't think it'll surprise anyone who has been around here more than five minutes to hear that I am opposed to the entire concept of grading children's achievement. There is a place for exams and rankings, but I don't think that place even starts to exist before the age of about 10, and probably not really until 15.
ev4n:
My parents pushed me hard when I was young because they'd been told I would have difficulty keeping up with the other kids. Turns out that may have been a misdiagnosis (???), and I did just fine.
Around here, universities keep track of graduation averages and student successes from high schools across the country. It's always been known that getting good grades at certain schools is easier than at others, turns out those higher marks are quite meaningless.
Welu:
My personal experience with school was being told mostly consistent B's with the odd lower and higher was good and then suddenly GCSEs (age 14/15) and how dare I get anything less than 100%. Most of my teachers expressed if it wasn't perfect then wasn't good enough. It made me totally give up because I was already working my hardest I got yelled at the same amount whether I got a B, C, D or failed so I didn't see the point in trying. It led to arguments at home because my parents, especially my Mammy, were frustrated with me for not doing work but to me their words just sounded like extensions of the teachers' "Nothing less than perfect" attitude at the time.
Yeah, fuck that specific school. I seem to just get more bitter about it as time goes on.
Noxx:
As a classic underachiever (crazy smart, shitty grades), I've always felt standardized schooling was a bit of a farce. I intended to homeschool my own kids, but ended up not having any.
Frankly leaving college and getting on with the world was one of my few wise life choices.
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