That lesson is going to serve them well in the workplace.
Teach students that they are entitled to bad behavior, bad work habits, and deadlines? Fuck deadlines
The next generation is going to have a hard time competing in the global workplace against cultures that do enforce reasonable consequences for fucking up.
If a 5 years old student already can do algebra and calculus but his teacher give him 100 page of simple addition to do as homework and he decide to not do them…
Should he fail the class ? I don’t think so, the class is already too easy for him!
His grade should only be based on his score on exams!
Why force student to waste hours at home doing busy work on something they already master? this sound like torture!
Many kids are not that lucky. In my experience, the kids (my peers) who were doing drastically badly weren't lazy. They had something else going on - a bad home life, or serious mental health issues.
Or are you simply saying student need to dedicate more hours per day than only school hours to not get behind ?
I think what school fails to do is teach the difference between internal motivation and external motivation. Mandated homework is external motivation for those who don't get it, and for those who do the mandate isn't necessary.
"Once time was money, it became possible to speak of “spending time,” rather than just “passing” it—also of wasting time, killing time, saving time, losing time, racing against time, and so forth. Puritan, Methodist, and evangelical preachers soon began instructing their flocks about the “husbandry of time,” proposing that the careful budgeting of time was the essence of morality. Factories began employing time clocks; workers came to be expected to punch the clock upon entering and leaving; charity schools designed to teach the poor discipline and punctuality gave way to public school systems where students of all social classes were made to get up and march from room to room each hour at the sound of a bell, an arrangement self-consciously designed to train children for future lives of paid factory labor.25"
"25.:Those who designed modern universal education systems were quite explicit about all this: Thompson himself cites a number of them. I remember reading that someone once surveyed American employers about what it was they actually expected when they specified in a job ad that a worker must have a high school degree: a certain level of literacy? Or numeracy? The vast majority said no, a high school education, they found, did not guarantee such things—they mainly expected the worker would be able to show up on time. Interestingly, the more advanced the level of education, however, the more autonomous the students and the more the old episodic pattern of work tends to reemerge."
Of course it's not just getting up and shuffling from class to class, but also waking up regularly, meeting deadlines, managing time efficiently. All of these things combined with the "basic educational foundation" which is in fact largely preparatory for later education and workplace fundamentals does seem to point against your assertions. And, frankly I think it's all harmful.
Edit:
Should probably also indicate that socialization in a hierarchical setting with various modes of authority being assumed while also dealing with virtual strangers at all points in the day is also not unlike work.
It's a lose-lose.
But fortunately I'm not starting out from scratch. People have made those experiments already. Grades suck.
Among other things that do work, guided retrospectives are one idea I would be tempted to implement. (Hell, we software developers know that too: when we want to get better, we hold retrospectives, we don't ask the scrum master to assign a letter grade!)
Why do you think that?
The point of life is to teach you how to deal with life.
That irrelevant.
The point is that in any given relationship, expectations are established and how well an expectation is met greatly determines the outcome.
If a student, employer, son, friend, mate agrees to completing a 1-hour task within a week and they fail to deliver, that's a problem. There are consequences.
The gist of the article is that the student is really the victim and should be pandered to.
That might work for a student or a someone's kid, but any other relationship is going to end badly. Friends, partners and employers get to choose their relationships. If you're irresponsible and disrespectful, they get to chose someone else.
> Late penalties almost certainly impede learning since they cause the give up effect,
You're confusing causation with correlation. Late penalties do not impede learning. Chosing not to learn by not doing the work impedes learning.
If a student isn't mature enough to meet expectations, the underlying cause should be addressed: the student's imaturity, irresponsibiltiy, home environment, learning disablity, lesson plan, whatever...
Removing consquenses for failing, making excuses, and giving the student a victim identity isn't doing the him/her any favors.
A small amount of urgency can be helpful, but ideally it should be intrinsic (i.e. someone screaming at you or giving you letter grades is nowhere near as motivating as feeling that you can almost do it) and it's very easy to overshoot.
Good scholastic performance by students in East Asian is not because schools in East Asian countries are low-pressure academic environments.