I'm conducting some consultations of my own!

[sabotabby]

Poll #21632 A poll, for science

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 42

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I loved group work in high school and I learned a lot from it.

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Yes
3 (7.1%)

No
39 (92.9%)

I wish there had been more students in my classes when I was in high school

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Yes
2 (4.9%)

No
39 (95.1%)

I wish I'd had fewer choices in courses (e.g., arts, music, technology, languages) when I was in high school

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Yes, there were way too many choices
1 (2.4%)

No, there was not enough choice
40 (97.6%)

Children learn best if there aren't enough chairs for them in a class

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Yes
1 (2.4%)

No
40 (97.6%)

Teenagers build resiliency through suffering

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No, are you joking?
17 (40.5%)

BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD, SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE
25 (59.5%)

Which is hardest?

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Running the Ministry of Education
0 (0.0%)

Running a goat farm
3 (7.1%)

Running a class of 40 teenagers with diverse learning needs
39 (92.9%)

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Larger class sizes will make high school students more resilient, according to Education Minister Lisa Thompson, in the least coherent interview ever given.

Comments

[sabotabby]

I still can't believe you had to work with that shithead.

[lapinlunaire]

Right?! I can't believe it either.

Most other group projects I worked on sucked too. My favourite was when teachers told students who had trouble with their group to work it out themselves. Because kids, especially younger ones, are GREAT at conflict resolution! Or whenever your grade was on the line if someone else didn't work, so if you wanted a good grade you had to do extra work to make up for lazy classmates (there was always at least one per group). This is what I don't get. People deal with these things as adults, yeah, but it's still stressful and upsetting to them. There's no reason to expect kids to handle this better.

[sabotabby]

This was also my life.