One of the top 5 public schools in the country. I also took 11 AP classes so don't think I got a crap education.
There were also lots of written sections but generally you know what to look for when you're correcting those things. It's not like oh hey let me read this essay and see if i like it, it's hey let me see if he mentions these three events.
My view on teachers is one based on a hell of a lot of numbers I just showed you and what I go out and read. I had good teachers and bad ones and none defined all teachers.
-Rudey
--If you rub clear chapstick along the black marks on the side of the scantron sheet, the machine can't mark it wrong I hear.
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Originally posted by sugar and spice
Also -- I forgot to ask this earlier -- where in the world did you go to high school, Rudey, where most teachers used scantron tests?
I think I only took scantron tests in one subject ever and that was science. And even then the majority of the teachers included a written section. In math they always wanted to see your work in order to get full credit. I had one math teacher who literally went through every single problem on every single assignment for each student in her 3 calc and 3 geometry classes to make sure they showed every step. In English and the social sciences teststhere was always an essay portion, most of the time a substantial one. Every history class I ever took required at least one ten-page paper a semester. English and foreign language classes above second year always had essays; some of them required monthly or even short weekly essays. Even science classes required essays for honors credit, and even if you didn't do the essay there was lab work.
I can see how your view of teachers would be a little warped if you went to a high school where scantron tests made up the majority of the work you did . . .
Plus even the worst teachers at my school changed their curriculum from year to year. My little sister's taking many of the same classes that I did in high school and most of them have at least one unit that's drastically different from anything that I did.
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