Dear teacher,
Why must my grades warrant my success as an individual of society? Moreover, why must they determine my potential as one who learns, one who absorbs information? These letters on a page, percentages dancing in a depressing tarantella in my head, they do me not good. They do not give me motivation to continue striving, they only smother me like a gentle boulder carved for no reason but for the destruction of self. Why can you not take into account my efforts for success? Why do you refuse to understand that I do not, and cannot at current state, understand the words exiting your mouth; they only expel my thought, not enrich it. I find it hard to explain, and immediately feel the glimmer of despair you yourself must feel as the authoritative figure tasked with twisting and turning my brain into a comprehensible mass, one that can be shared with the masses.
I know how it works, and I am not blind to the realities of our society; our worth is mostly determined by that which can be quantified, even that which is qualitative will become a number of the authorities so wish. We are seeing this in China no, a communist country mind you, in which "goodness of character" is steered by numbers. Now, i am aware you do not see yourself as an oppressive dictator, nor should you. I understand you have limited powers in a hand that can only hold a ruler, but you must remove your own blindfold. With numbers we are not humans, we are a measure of what is human. Why can you not look to the fine Arts or Languages, in which one's interpretation and communication of a topic is what is judged
Now I know that is a silly request: there is a different grading system for differing subjects, the contents of which are wholly individual to one another. Maybe I should be waging a war against the school system and not the poor employees. I appreciate that you do not have as much power as I and others like me would like to believe, and we commemorate your passion for work. But I urge, that you at minimum reflect on the grading system and suggest changes to it that would greatly benefit the mentality of yourself and your students.
Sincerely,
Most of the students you may meet
Why must my grades warrant my success as an individual of society? Moreover, why must they determine my potential as one who learns, one who absorbs information? These letters on a page, percentages dancing in a depressing tarantella in my head, they do me not good. They do not give me motivation to continue striving, they only smother me like a gentle boulder carved for no reason but for the destruction of self. Why can you not take into account my efforts for success? Why do you refuse to understand that I do not, and cannot at current state, understand the words exiting your mouth; they only expel my thought, not enrich it. I find it hard to explain, and immediately feel the glimmer of despair you yourself must feel as the authoritative figure tasked with twisting and turning my brain into a comprehensible mass, one that can be shared with the masses.
I know how it works, and I am not blind to the realities of our society; our worth is mostly determined by that which can be quantified, even that which is qualitative will become a number of the authorities so wish. We are seeing this in China no, a communist country mind you, in which "goodness of character" is steered by numbers. Now, i am aware you do not see yourself as an oppressive dictator, nor should you. I understand you have limited powers in a hand that can only hold a ruler, but you must remove your own blindfold. With numbers we are not humans, we are a measure of what is human. Why can you not look to the fine Arts or Languages, in which one's interpretation and communication of a topic is what is judged
Now I know that is a silly request: there is a different grading system for differing subjects, the contents of which are wholly individual to one another. Maybe I should be waging a war against the school system and not the poor employees. I appreciate that you do not have as much power as I and others like me would like to believe, and we commemorate your passion for work. But I urge, that you at minimum reflect on the grading system and suggest changes to it that would greatly benefit the mentality of yourself and your students.
Sincerely,
Most of the students you may meet
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