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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
What do you think about this?
Getting rid of the F grade in school?
Re: What do you think about this?
::Steps on soap box::
This really bothers me. It seems as though parents these days don't want to their kids to experience any type of failure. How can we know the joy of working so hard and making something happen, whether that be wining a game or getting an 'A'. I think that doing this is really going to damage kids. I also wonder what type of message this is sending people about a high school diploma.
Like the article said, "resulting in a system in which ?kids are under the impression they can do it whenever they want to, and it's not that big of a deal.?
What kind of work ethic is this teaching kids?
::off soap box::
This idea is just plain dumb. I don't agree with it. Students are going to have even more excuses to procrastinate and not do their work on time. That doesn't seem fair to everyone else who takes the time to do their work on time.
I feel that students should face the consequences for their actions. If you don't do your work on time you damn well deserve an F. If you take the time to keep up and do your work on time you deserve an A.
In the end isn't that how it works at a job in the real world?
No work no pay. Fail to do your work on time= getting fired.
This sounds like the latest in a really disturbing trend, IMO. I remember when I was little, I failed a couple of levels of swimming class because I couldn't do some of the skills. Imagine my surprise when my brother started teaching and told me that he wasn't allowed to fail kids anymore - he could only "recommend" to parents whether the kids should repeat or move on.
I may never have learned to tread water or dive if I hadn't failed. (Actually, I didn't learn to dive until really late, because we were allowed to pass if we only had 1 skill that needed improving; diving was always the one downfall on my swimming report cards.)
V has TAed undergrad engineering students for a number of years and every year, he's always dismayed that they just seem to get lazier and dumber. He's observed that they're doing worse and worse at the same problem sets that were given for years, and it's because they just look up solutions on the internet rather than think for themselves, and expect that to be good enough.
I understand the issue with dealing with learning disabilities, but surely there must be a way without constructing the system to enable this feeling of entitlement.
I'm going to do my best to teach kids that they CAN fail, but that when you fail, you just pick yourself up and move on.
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