Lowering Standards?

Question

There is an educational movement to lower educational standards so the self-esteam of some students wont be hurt when they cant keep up, fail, etc. Personaly I think lowering standards will ultimatly hurt sociaty as a whole, children will become misinformed about their true mental or physical strenths and this could hurt them in the real world and hurt sociaty itself as more mistakes are made. You can pretty much see where my opinion is heading on this. But whats your opinion on lowering standards? Why and why not do they need to be lowered?

Answer 1

I do not like that idea one bit.
Why should society be penalized for a few people that are slower than the rest?
If they need extra help learning then by all means give it to them.
Do not alter the teaching mechanism to a lower standard for all people just for some touchy feely BS notion.
Oh I guess this is that no child left behind crap I have been hearing about.

Answer 2

I don't think any educator will look at it as "lowering standards"
even though that may be the net effect. Instead, they'll look at
it as being more inclusive.

What standards SHOULD the public school system apply
to educating the mentally retarded?

Please don't tell me that we should just not deal with them.
Please don't tell me that we should take them away from
other kids (which generally retards their growth even further).

Personally, I believe you push everyone as hard as they can
be pushed and standards are only there to make sure that
you are doing that.

Unfortunately, people come out of the school system and
the rest of the world expects people to know particular
things and have particular skills.

The standards need to be applied to the school system, not
the students going through it. That is, each student is
entitled to a top notch education - that doesn't mean they
are all going to come out the same - we all have different
capabilities.

Unfortunately, right now the only way we have of measuring
a school's performance is to measure the students coming out
of it - and I have no answer for that.

Answer 3

Let me say this you cant put the blame on this on those young arrogant supposely kind and peace people of the late 60s who are in charge of everthing our schools and news media that have pretty much I feel destroy many kids with the bull crap they keep telling them .The idea they feel in there small brains is that ever kid should be treated the same even the kids that have been in trouble and have so many bad grades .They will give a kid that is bad and is something you cant do about it but dont tell that to these idiot political correctness that are teachers are as well as the people that run the school districts because they think ever kid has been in trouble should be given a pass and we are society should understand it but yet if you turn around and ask if those teachers and people who run the districts "if you care so much about these kids then you take care of those kids everday"I will say they would run away so fast .They think kids who get a f in any thing should be able to pass even though the kid has show that he has not show at all like he wants to get better it happens a lot it does.

Answer 4

The standards are low. I teach my children to exceed the standards. As a result they score very high. However, I've noticed a handful of other parents with the same goals. Two of our three are very bright by all accounts and still not the brightest in their respective schools. They score in the top 1%, but there is fierce competition.

Lowering standards will only hurt those who seek to achieve minimum standards. Those willing to work hard(er) will go farther. In that respect it will be the same as always. Our educational system has never been very good, so motivation is the key.

Answer 5

Ultimately? It already has hurt society. In the United States we've been lowering standards for decades, and as such we are hopelessly behind the rest of the world in any educational measure you want to use. This attitude that we would rather have our kids feel good about accomplishing nothing than to prepare them for the world will not only hurt our society but will ultimately be our downfall.

Answer 6

(Groan) I think it's already happened. The whole self-esteem movement is over. I don't know what schools you're talking about, but the ones I know of are not lowering standards. I find it completely ironic that someone whose communications skills are so poor would complain about the effects of lowered academic standards.

Answer 7

i think most kids are under stimulated starting from birth.
kids can learn a lot more than we give them credit for.they should go to school all year long with 2 week brakes three times a year and that's all.we are far behind in education compare to some other countries.our kids are being allowed to be lazy and they learn that's all they need to do.

Answer 8

i don't know what to say b/c i graduated with alot of hard work and sweat...on the other hand i can see the problems the poor white and black students might have if they don't have a high school diploma...i always thought the standards were low anyhow.

Answer 9

I completely agree with you. Children need to learn discipline and appropriate learning skills to succeed in life. Excessively worrying about their self-esteem will only cause them more harm than good in a long run.

Answer 10

This is outrageous... they are already low enough.. Please... I was fortunate enough to go to a private school where am was 95-100%. 85-90% was B average, so don't tell me that these kids can't pass under the current standards.