Friday, April 30, 2010
Lying to get out is a good thing, by Francis Chartrand
"Lying to get out is a good thing" was the title and theme of an exercise of a French father was outraged we sent Pour une école libre au Québec (see link here).
Everyone in the class their child should copy the text as it stood then correct spelling errors.
No discussion on the merits of this message to correct dictation.
When questioned, the father of the student said he was outraged by this exercise in a class of relativistic secondary school in Quebec in the Montreal area.
I wonder if the teacher who corrected the text has not asked some questions of morality to the student ...
Me, being a teacher, I'd have not corrected his text, I would have made him aware of what he writes if he did not want a 0.
Let's make sure that the message is clear, it's not just spelling errors that should be corrected in schools. Education is also responsible for the development of judgement.
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# posted by Francis Chartrand @ 10:28 PM 
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