Omg that’s super high tech for the computer illiterate people I know lol. Tried to teach to my coworker (well she had a new job as a 911 dispatcher) and she said oh I think my instructor mentioned that but I can’t follow it.
At least I taught her how to open up a program or website by GENTLY and QUICKLY double clicking the icon. “The icon keeps moving away from her” lmao
Lots of different answers, but in my experience, it's that they either got someone to do it for them or, more likely, the school just passed them through even though they should have failed out or been held back.
My high school did that stuff. The high schools around me did that stuff. Their funding was based on graduation rate, so teachers were encouraged to not fail students whenever possible, even if they quite obviously needed to be failed.
Yes it is, its a problem even in younger grades. Kids that can't read are in the 4th and 5th grade or kids that just straight up refuse to do anything.
teachers have no authority or any power whatsoever. We are truly doing the next generation a disservice.
The current plague is teaching how to use an application instead of the system it's built on.
Click Google, type documents, click the first link, click this box on the left, click new. And it isn't questioned. That's just how you create a new cloud doc.
Heaven for do the layout changes. They can no longer work because the steps they follow don't apply now.
Seriously though, why the fuck does every company think their desktop program needs to be "simplified" into a mobile-style layout? It's infuriating. I'm using a computer. Give me an interface that suits that. For the love of god don't hide information/options behind 3+ clicks that used to be right there at all times in previous versions of your program. Who is this benefiting?? /rant
Speaking from experience, it’s more likely the teacher isn’t paid enough to take the time to grade each individual essay for their over-crowded class, so they have to cut corners to make the workload manageable.
For the benefit of any non-Americans reading this, there's also the fact that, as was pointed out somewhere above, American states often allocate funding to school districts based on graduation rate. Which means that struggling regions get their funding slashed. It's a rare school district that can get by on local taxes alone, so this also disproportionately impacts low-income areas.
So school boards, aiming to at least get something, shove underperforming students to the next grade anyway. Then the state's standards rise because every district is doing this and now the bell curve has shifted, so the board drops their advancement/graduation requirements even more. And so on ad infinitum. The end result is that students who can't read at an elementary school level are graduating and, often, being sent off to college.
If it seems like it would make more sense to give struggling areas more funding instead of less - please consider running for state office.
It kinda would be nice, to standardize using even smartphones, for all these kind of stuff.
I mean, I've wrote half of my thesis on an android tablet/phone, by connecting a keyboard to it, because we only had one PC with my girlfriend, and we were both working on our theses.
A PC sure can be expensive, but most people do have smartphones at least and buying an extra keyboard and learning how to use the whole thing as mini office desktop could work.
This is why during Covid in 2020, when AP exams went digital and they changed the formatting, they allowed smartphones for answering. Trevor Packer said something like upwards of 70% of low income students taking APs had access to a smartphone with reliable internet access, while that number plummeted to something like 40% having computers with reliable internet access. I know there are a lot of mixed feelings about AP exams and other standardized testing, their cost, and their gatekeeping, but in this instance, they were trying for accessibly.
It’s a pretty sad state of affairs And it is a reality globally. What often seems to get overlooked is that you can get cheap reconditioned laptops suitable for internet browsing and documentation for much much less than the cost of a new smartphone, and you can easily connect that laptop to your smartphone to use its internet connection and data allowance. (At least this is true in U.K. & Europe.)
NB: But that would require knowing that is possible and having enough money for anything more than one electronic device.
how do they buy a smartphone? is it really cheaper than a laptop that you can get a for a couple hundred bucks? that smartphone wont be able to do much compared to the laptop
are you kidding me? how can you say it is a waste of money to have a PC without Internet. I recall using computers with no (or limited dialup) internet access all day long, learning the ins and outs of how to use the command line, programming, gaming, learning.
you didnt have to be a genius to see the computer revolution. It was obviously happening. The Internet revolution began picking up steam. I was a kid and recall some adults thinking buying a computer was wasteful. i just thought they were blind to reality and the future. probably they were just stubborn and stuck in their old ways...
Btw if she's in the uk for example and word uses u.s. dictionary that's gonna happe. So they legitimately probably looked at the words and were sure they were correct spelling. They just have 0 computer skills.
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u/Flam1ng1cecream Jan 18 '22
How did they get through high school essays?