The curious case of the French boy who failed AS-Level French - Telegraph
So it must come as a bit of a shock when you're expected to work stuff out from first principles without being given the answer to parrot. (No, not that parrot, heaven forfend).
Seems to have changed a bit over the years.
Skool didn't used to be like this.
I blame all those dumb ejumakashenists from the 1960s on.
Hang 'em all.
I find it very odd that teaching the times tables, the old method of long division, hundreds tens and units** etc. is seen as a dreadful throwback and damages young minds, whilst* essentially changing secondary education to mere learning by rote which is even worse than the times table thing.
At least knowing your tables comes in handy in later life.
*"whilst" is one of the banned words which must not be used, being archaic, according to instructions handed down from on high at the tuliphole where I "work". I kid you not.
**they don't know what hundreds tens and units are, and they have this weird diagonal table thing for doing multiplication and possibly division which looks more obscure than the old method.
Found this out 3 years ago when a class looked totally baffled when asked to do some simple sums of multiplication.
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Skool didn't used to be like this.
I blame all those dumb ejumakashenists from the 1960s on.
Hang 'em all.
I find it very odd that teaching the times tables, the old method of long division, hundreds tens and units** etc. is seen as a dreadful throwback and damages young minds, whilst* essentially changing secondary education to mere learning by rote which is even worse than the times table thing.
At least knowing your tables comes in handy in later life.
*"whilst" is one of the banned words which must not be used, being archaic, according to instructions handed down from on high at the tuliphole where I "work". I kid you not.
**they don't know what hundreds tens and units are, and they have this weird diagonal table thing for doing multiplication and possibly division which looks more obscure than the old method.
Found this out 3 years ago when a class looked totally baffled when asked to do some simple sums of multiplication.
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