Kids Graduations???
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- mg33
WTF is up lately with kids "graduating from like every single grade that exists to move onto the next grade? Any of you parents understand all this?
I've seen friends on Facebook posting their kids "graduating" from kindergarten, from second grade, from sixth grade, from 8th grade...
Maybe I'm old fashioned, but you graduate from high school and college. Not all the in-betweens. Even if I were a parent I'd think it were a little cheesy. Maybe I just don't get it, but it reeks of kids needing reinforcement at all stages of growing up, not unlike getting a trophy for finishing dead last in a sports league.
- severian0
Someone has childhood issues.
- monospaced0
Seriously. I agree, mg33. It's not like anything you do in school even matters (is counted toward the future) until high school anway.
- "Huffin' gas and kickin' ass" was what mattered to most of my classmates.mg33
- albums0
fulfilling the minimum requirements then being treated as if you excelled is good for retarding free thought.
Education used to be; "This is how you learn, these are your tools, this is how to use them". It has now gone to "Here are the tests, here are the answers, make sure we pass our minimum skills requirement tests."
This is by no means the fault of the educator but the system they are in, each year funding cuts and program cuts destroy America from the inside, not so much unlike it's military presence destroys other cultures.
- d_rek0
My kid will get a fucking smack when they graduate, just to remind them that all graduation means is that you have to start over from scratch again.
- hellrod0
Seriously though, kids need reinforcement when it comes to education. A lot of them aren't getting it from home.
- interesting pointmonospaced
- but, instead of reinforcement, they need to be reminded of how goddamn mediocre they actually aremonospaced
- Yeah, pretty good point. I just don't know when this all started to be so popular.mg33
- It was around June of 2003. It was summer... and it was hot.CanHasQBN
- CALLES0
school makes money right? you gotta buy all this shit from them correct?
- tasty0
What did the thermometer say to the graduated cylinder?
You may have graduated but I've got many degrees!
- mg330
It would be funny to be a kid that eventually graduates from high school, and has like 4 or 5 diplomas from across your education, and then put all of them up in an office in huge frames. Earned that shit.
- severian0
Kids get excited about it. It gets them engaged with their future and education.
I take it you don't have children so you obviously won't understand.
It's not like they have fireworks and cap and gown events. They have a little f-in party with cupcakes and lemonade then congratulate the children.
Now get back on your own lawn you jaded m-fer.
- Free lemonade?! Those kids charged me 25¢ for that last week!tasty
- I don't have kids. Hopefully someday!mg33
- +1locustsloth
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level up!
- monospaced0
They'll let anyone graduate. Reinforcement for reinforcement's sake. I think that graduation requirements should be much more strict so that no student can graduate 2nd grade without being able to read proficiently at a 2nd grade level (and so on). If you're going to throw a freakin' party for these guys, it should be for a damn good reason.
- dumb people have a place in this world too!tasty
- sure, but there's no need to lump them in with the smart onesmonospaced
- it makes the degree worthless for the ones who worked their asses offmonospaced
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severian,
it's not really fair to say i don't understand children because i don't have them, i was one, as was mg33, so i do i understand, as well as interacting with them and their parents in my everyday life.
the good thing about "graduating" from the 3rd grade was that i wasn't being held back like the stupid kids.
you know how much it sucks to know your kid is bored in class because a teacher is having to devote too much personal time to a single student? the system is stuck picking up the slow ones instead of elevating the smart ones. then to treat them as equals at the end of the year in this meaningless ceremony which i equate to participation trophies, you're doing nothing for the advanced students but dulling their brains by surrounding them with stupid and patting them both on the back.
- +1,000,000,000monospaced
- your last paragraph sums up my opinions exactlymonospaced
- equating being a child to having a child shows that you may have needed to take 3rd grade over againlocustsloth
- LOL at locust, my thoughts exactly.severian
- and mono, you are borderline retarded to begin with.severian
- oh, so now you're a doctor? don't be such a smug asshole, the fact is that primary education here is a jokemonospaced
- yep.. yep and yepPonyBoy
- discoduro0
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
― Albert Einstein
- randomname0
Give parents Kindergarten graduation. Why not, they're still adorable at that age. Everything else is stupid until HS graduation.
- albums0
my resume for my pretentious attitude comes from...
My own boredom in school
I sleep with a teacher, it's pillow talk
I live with a principal/librarian & her 10 year old daughter whom I assist in tutoring
This is a daily complaint by her/discussion by us
I develop tutoring & study sheets for her to use in the education system, including her personal tutoring she does after hours
My friends are affluent & care for their children's future.
I have in my life any given week 8 children from 4-15 that want to learn more & their parents appreciate my input, not so much my sarcasm admittedly.
I donate backpacks and supplies to my old elementary school because it's the poorest in town.
I give a shit.just saying, this american education thing is more than a thread in my life.
- severian0
^ dude, you can barely put a coherent sentence together.
- You didn't use capitalization either. So let's not get finicky. I've been asked to join enough education programs to not care about your input.albums
- about your input.albums
- seriously tho, its hard to readautoflavour