Auckland Grammar and NCEA
Happy new year to any one who reads this.
I drove past Auckland Grammar today. Boys were lurking in their uniform, ready for another year. Wait, most schools go back next week! so what was that about?
Any how, I did laugh at this pretentious school last week. They are so wanting to be a private church school without the church stuff (like a few church schools really).
Any how again, I laughed at the rationale given last week as to why they were encouraging their boys year 11 level to not do NCEA and to do Cambridge exams instead. because ti will motivate them! really! My experience of being a boy, of teaching 15 year old boys, and watching our boy is, yeah right! all they will do is slack of all year, and so enough at the end of the year to do well enough. their marks may be higher. But what will they learn? isn't that what schools are really about, learning and not the grades?
My daughter has rightly pointed out that your school marks count for very little once you have left and begun further education. What counts then is how much you have learnt, and the skills you have learnt about how to work effectively through out the year. I wonder if what Grammar are suggesting will in fact serve those boys very well in the long term?
I drove past Auckland Grammar today. Boys were lurking in their uniform, ready for another year. Wait, most schools go back next week! so what was that about?
Any how, I did laugh at this pretentious school last week. They are so wanting to be a private church school without the church stuff (like a few church schools really).
Any how again, I laughed at the rationale given last week as to why they were encouraging their boys year 11 level to not do NCEA and to do Cambridge exams instead. because ti will motivate them! really! My experience of being a boy, of teaching 15 year old boys, and watching our boy is, yeah right! all they will do is slack of all year, and so enough at the end of the year to do well enough. their marks may be higher. But what will they learn? isn't that what schools are really about, learning and not the grades?
My daughter has rightly pointed out that your school marks count for very little once you have left and begun further education. What counts then is how much you have learnt, and the skills you have learnt about how to work effectively through out the year. I wonder if what Grammar are suggesting will in fact serve those boys very well in the long term?
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