Are 'No-Fail' Grading Systems Hurting or Helping Students?

[Celtic Rose]

I think having remedial, junior high school math, reading and writing classes at universities says a lot about the state of our educational system. 

The way I see it is that we should hold them back when they are younger.  Can't do basic reading and math when you finish 1st grade, great you get a do-over. It is just plain incomprehensible that kids can get to high school and still be functionally illiterate.  My friend is a high school math teacher with Teach for America, and she has some kids who got to high school who are still struggling with basic arithmetic. 

 

[jinxmchue]

I was just chatting with my neice out in Califunny on Facebook, and she was telling me how exhausted she was because she had to last through 6 whole hours of school (she's 12).  I told her that the rest of the world doesn't work on a 6 hours on/18 hours off schedule, and illustrated with the experiences I had on a docking crew for the Naval Shipyard.  We started docking a carrier at about 21:00 one evening, and finally completed the evolution 27 hours later.  She was nonplussed, until I clarified for her: the docking crew for that evolution was ON DUTY for that whole 27 hour period, until that ship was properly settled on the dock set, the caisson back in place, and the dry dock dry again.

There are a lot of school aged young Americans who are in for a real awakening when they take their first steps out into the REAL WORLD.  Their school systems do nothing but a disservice to them by trying to wrap them in bubble-wrap for their entire public education careers.

Is it any surprise then that we have a whole country full of under-30 liberal whiners?