[alicebot-aiethics] Computers vs. human grading school essays...

[Dekker Dreyer]

I've seen a defined shift in the educational system. Where their is now two
"camps" of students in the eyes of educators. With the students who need
more educational help they employ a "lower the standards" mentality, however
for the students who maintain good marks they impose a "tighten the reigns"
mentality. It was always strange to me to see this in action and even
stranger to see educators thinking this alright. The "lowered standards"
students cared less and less because if they couldn't do the work they'd
just get easier work, where the "tightened down" students would become more
and more hateful toward their educators and jealous of the "lowered
standards" students. It's a no win situation. I have a serious hatred of the
educational system in the states. At sixteen years old, being that is the
youngest a citizen can elect to abandon school, I quit high school. This
filled the system with contempt considering I was a 3.9 GPA student with not
one disciplinary action. I didn't care for the way creative students like
myself were treated. Prior to quitting I had shopped around for colleges
with a media program that would accept me and I found one. Excelling the
more open environment of college I graduated with the lowest degree possible
in the shortest amount of time, an A.A. in film two months after my
seventeenth birthday. One month after that I was working on the MGM studios
backlot as commercial producer, and now at twenty I make a great living
owning my own media firm.

I'll never forget what my high school math teacher told me before I left,
She said, " I'll see you right back here in two months. Maybe by that time
you'll be broken and appreciative."

American school treats students like prisoners in jail instead of new minds
trying to learn about their interests by placing too much emphasis on
behavioral rules and too little on meeting educational standards.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Wallace" <rwallace@best.com>
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Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 9:24 PM
Subject: Re: [alicebot-aiethics] Computers vs. human grading school
essays...


>
>
> > I'm starting to wonder how a nation with such a bizzare schoolsystem can
> > produce a quite large amount of good scientists & bussinesmen?
Statistics?
>
> I'm afraid that the excellent education system that once existed in the
U.S.
> has been utterly destroyed and politicized by the present generation of
its
> caretakers.  Whether the U.S. continues to produce such high quality
leaders
> in the future, is a matter of speculation.
>
> Rich
>
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