"LaS nOtAs HaY qUe SuDarLAs"

I agree and disagree with this new method of evaluating our students. I disagree because students that were used to getting good grades will now lower their grades and not because they don’t study hard enough, but because of the way they are being evaluated. There are very intelligent students that might get frustrated when they see their new average and this can lower their motivation towards their studies and this is a big problem that many students have always had and now with this new method, students will be more unmotivated. Not only students will have to sweat to get good grades, but teachers will have to sweat to get the students motivation and will have to make some kind of change on their teaching methods and tests. Something I don’t find relevant mentioned in this article is that it is said that this method will help reduce school and community problems. How? I think that there are more important things happening in schools, like drop outs, violence, schools without the necessary materials, children not receiving the special attentions they need and even worse problems that affect our children that the government should be paying more attention to and acting upon instead of just mentioning it in the news and not doing anything about it. In the part I agree is that although students will have to really work hard to get good grades, this will prepare them for when they start their university studies. This method truly proves student’s intelligence and will teach them that to get what you truly want in life you have to work hard. But as I said, this depends on how motivated the students are. Also, with the evaluating method used before, students just took it easy the first semester and didn’t worry too much of studying and getting good grades because they would increase their average the second semester. Now, students will have to get good grades form the beginning. I just think that this is a subject that the government is giving too much importance to when we should all, teachers, parents and society, be more united then ever to solve more important situations that truly affect our students.