TheOneWhoWasLeft
1912
63
1
...and you and your fellow students low-key suck. Do better, folks!
Jan 22, 2025 10:42 AM
TheOneWhoWasLeft
1912
63
1
...and you and your fellow students low-key suck. Do better, folks!
Sebastopol140
Haha, excellent!
BlackTrashTiger
Nahnahyeah
This looks bell curved.
mrollings53
A 54% is a C?
DutchBoeremeisie
No, the letters are a bit off. It should be 90% - A+, 80% - A, 70% - B, 60% C. Perhaps they work with a A-F scale only? Or something. Or maybe things have changed a lot since I've lived in Germany.
SimplyWalkedIntoMordorAndBroughtPizza
i had a teacher who did that with stamps. once per month he would get a new stamp and only people who did their homework well would get it on the paper. so we were encouraged to work well in order to make our collection grow
Garf34
200 IQ teacher
Nautas
In VA it was a 7 percent grading scale and when I got to middle school it switch to 10 percent.
Thesaya
If most of your students fail to get a passing grade, it might be you who suck, not them. I don't know how German grades work, but more than half getting under 50% correct sounds quite low.
TheOneWhoWasLeft
These aren't my stickers, nor my students, and the test itself doesn't look like it's taken in a German school.
And more than likely it's a mixture of overloaded, outdated, irrelevant curricula meeting disinterested, overworked students who have long since clocked in to the fact that education means less and less, taught by a teacher who has to pay for the books out of their own pocket and who gets to waste their already limited free time reconceptualizing active shooter drills.
Thesaya
I can't tell what the language is, from how little is seen, but it isn't English, so I doubt it is in an American school either. You spell Academy with a c and y, not k and i.
Unfortunate500
The US has two basic grading schemes with percentages for A, B, C, D, and F for Excellent, Good, Fair, Poor, and Failure.
92%, 84%, 76%, 68%, 60%
90%, 80%, 70%, 60%, 50%
The difference is usually private vs public, but the underlying big logic is that if you know less than half the information it is irrational to receive a passing grade.
Grades like "20% E" are baffling to us without explanation.
DutchBoeremeisie
20% literally just means that you got only 20% of the total available points. In the Netherlands, anything below 60% would be a failing grade (although many institutions round 55%+ up to 60%).
The point is simply knowing exactly how much you got wrong. If you get 32% or 45% in the next test, that would be something to be proud of. Progress is progress.
Unfortunate500
Why is a 20 an E and a 40 an F? I am not questioning the value of the percentage numbers. I am confused by how it translates to letter grades.
The existence of two letter grades in the 40% and below category implies that the 40% is a passing grade? Or is that a regular F for Failure and E is "Egregious Failure" or "Epsilon-Minus Semi-Moron"?
DutchBoeremeisie
The grades are mind-boggling, not sure how they got that. Unless they're using their own grading system. Usually it's 90%+ = A+, 80%+ = A, 70%+ = B, 60%+ = C, etc.
The letter is supposed to be an equivalent of the %. But they're using a grading scale that I'm not familiar with (it's been more than 20 years since I've lived there, so it could be that a new system was introduced, or that just this one school uses their own). Or perhaps the letters are made up and the points don't matter?
Unfortunate500
Thank you. At least I know it's not just me now. I don't get a ton of piece of mind these days so thank you for that.
Once you graduate, the letters are indeed made up and the points don't matter. In 40+ years of work, No one ever asked my GPA. I saw it on a job application once, but as an optional field.
Employers want to know you can complete a 4 year project. It's their job to have policies to deal with your quality shortcomings. They need you to show up.
Hemelsblauw
1= very good; 2= good; 6= not sufficient.
I definitely prefer the Dutch system.
Hemelsblauw
1= very good; 2= good; 6= not sufficient.
I definitely prefer the Dutch system.
Unfortunate500
Any idea what the E and F mean?
backrideup9
80% is an A? That's some real America level of manipulation to show this person isn't a terrible teacher. But this person is a terrible teacher. Those kids didn't learn shit.
TheOneWhoWasLeft
95% of terrible teachers are made that way by the system that makes good teaching impossible.
Good teaching requires time, and money, and reasonable expectations in terms of the curriculum, and for all the non-teaching extra work to be taken off the teachers' hands, and reasonable safety (both physical and financial), and humane class sizes, and useful materials, and political freedom, and a societal appreciation for education. All of your teaching ability is helpless against those odds.
BarryTheCyborg
If this is primary school, I agree, but if this is college/University, they are a shitty professor and there's no excuse for that. Most of the shitty professors only care about their research and neglect the teaching of their classes. If a professor isn't embarrassed by the high number of failures, they have no business teaching.
TheOneWhoWasLeft
The fact that professors are forced to teach when they would rather do research (and probably also get more money from said research than from teaching) literally IS the system's doing.
And college is notorious for absolutely outdated, overloaded, irrational curricula, foisted upon students who also never wanted to take that class. There's no "good teacher" in the world who can make an unwilling, overworked student deliver a good grade.
SarcasticComment
the worst teachers of memory weren't broken by the system. they were cruel people who had no business around kids. For example: I had a teacher blatantly tell me I wouldn't get into the high school of my choice. This was unprovoked. I made sure to tell her I got in, unlike her son. That woman was a terror in all aspects of her life.
TheOneWhoWasLeft
Was that teacher a bad teacher or just a bad person? Plenty of teachers are, by nature and by profession, irritable and hypercritical shits. But their students excel (like you did).
SarcasticComment
both. shit person. shit teacher. the caliber of person who is gladly an 11 year old's bully because "they'll thank me later for it"
SarcasticComment
I'd lower that %. there are a lot of power tripping, want summers off, assholes that join the profession out of laziness and ego. the system can be blamed for a lot, but it is not responsible for a rotten personality.
TheOneWhoWasLeft
Teachers never have any summers off. Their work far extends outside of the actual class (which is one part of the problem).