I think the problem is the pandemic ruined the scam of teachers handing out grades based on fluff and nonsense. By forcing everyone to take the same tests and preventing the teachers from easily fudging the numbers (since everything gets recorded online) the real aptitude of all the special snowflakes was revealed.
The pandemic did not make students dumber, it revealed how dumb they already were.
Not seeing the lips and having the sound be muffled is a lot of sound and info to be lost over a day. 2 weeks woulda been fine. 2 years of struggling to understand the teacher is an irreparable setback. The smart kids were fine and tuned out anyway, but the struggling ones fell behind.
That's a good point. I also think a lot of it is aimed at the idea of obedience to the teacher. Whether it's good or not is a major debate, but not being able to control the way they did has made it really difficult.
Yes and no. In some ways fudging is more rampant and some ways it was less.
More rampant because it was so much easier to cheat since most teachers just used google forms for tests. A lady at my local bar hired me to take her kid's high school tests because I'm the "smart guy"(read: I read books therefore smart) at the bar and would pay for my bar tabs in return. Completely laughable tests.
The other way numbers get fudged is disruptive kids. If you're a terrible kid the teachers don't want to deal with you and they pass you just so you don't get left back and they don't have to deal with you a second time. But if it is virtual these terrible kids aren't going to log in so the teachers don't care about promoting and forgetting and instead just fail them like they should have been.
Also there is also the just the terrible teaching principle in some of this. Under normal circumstances a supervisor can pop into the classroom to see what is going on. With zoom there was very little oversight and lazy teachers just completely slacked off.
I think the problem is the pandemic ruined the scam of teachers handing out grades based on fluff and nonsense. By forcing everyone to take the same tests and preventing the teachers from easily fudging the numbers (since everything gets recorded online) the real aptitude of all the special snowflakes was revealed.
The pandemic did not make students dumber, it revealed how dumb they already were.
Based take. Absolutely plausible.
I think it's a combo.
Not seeing the lips and having the sound be muffled is a lot of sound and info to be lost over a day. 2 weeks woulda been fine. 2 years of struggling to understand the teacher is an irreparable setback. The smart kids were fine and tuned out anyway, but the struggling ones fell behind.
That's a good point. I also think a lot of it is aimed at the idea of obedience to the teacher. Whether it's good or not is a major debate, but not being able to control the way they did has made it really difficult.
Yes and no. In some ways fudging is more rampant and some ways it was less.
More rampant because it was so much easier to cheat since most teachers just used google forms for tests. A lady at my local bar hired me to take her kid's high school tests because I'm the "smart guy"(read: I read books therefore smart) at the bar and would pay for my bar tabs in return. Completely laughable tests.
The other way numbers get fudged is disruptive kids. If you're a terrible kid the teachers don't want to deal with you and they pass you just so you don't get left back and they don't have to deal with you a second time. But if it is virtual these terrible kids aren't going to log in so the teachers don't care about promoting and forgetting and instead just fail them like they should have been.
Also there is also the just the terrible teaching principle in some of this. Under normal circumstances a supervisor can pop into the classroom to see what is going on. With zoom there was very little oversight and lazy teachers just completely slacked off.