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"Not reaching my potential" Fuck that line (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by Stamets@lemmy.world to c/adhd@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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[-] anotherandrew@lemmy.mixdown.ca 18 points 7 months ago

Holy shit that makes my blood boil! If I earned a B you fucking give me a B, marks are not arbitrary and based on your feelings.

We had a teacher like this for my youngest son. Her marking of his work was consistently two letter grades below every other mark he got in all of his subjects. Got the school board involved after having a few other teachers independently grade the same paper she gave him a C on. She is no longer involved in any of his studies.

[-] xenoclast@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

It'll make your head explode to find out that giving someone a B+ in that situation is more likely to lead to an A the next.. positive encouragement leads to positive feeling about the task. It's bullshit to think some kid is gonna think "oh I did bad I'm gonna do more of this to get better.". it's really easy to see how "oh I got this, I'm going to do more of it"

(This works for subjective learning only. Things that require mastery like mathematics needs a different system)

[-] ChexMax@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

I guess I am the outlier here. In college I half assed a paper, figured I'd take the B so I could just be done. Prof gave me a C and told me he knew I was smarter than that and knew I could do better. I appreciated that he knew I was better than that, and didn't write my next paper buzzed. With that professors encouragement I ended up changing to a harder major overall