• cattywampas@lemm.ee
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    7 days ago

    I know the article mentions these, but it’s time to bring back oral exams and handwritten-in-class essays

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      7 days ago

      I could never write essays by hand. Too often I would write out a paragraph just to read it, break it up, and subsequently rewrite both parts.

    • Euphoma@lemmy.ml
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      7 days ago

      Chromebooks these days have locked down modes for tests where you can only acess the test and maybe desmos, I think newer AP tests are done this way at the highschool I went to.

    • throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works
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      6 days ago

      Yay, lets punish the kid with tremors in their hand and lose 20 points for no fucking reason 🙃

      The good ol’ days of ableist school admins

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        6 days ago

        I doubt a kid with tremors would be unable to get an exception made for them. I have tremors and in the mid 2000s my teachers were offering me test taking options like computers and other methods.

        I always refused because I was stubborn.

    • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      7 days ago

      Nah fuck that shit I was so glad when everything moved to computers in schools. Kids are never gonna need to handwrite or speak in their lives, they need typing practice.

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        6 days ago

        Downvoted for speaking the truth. Can’t wait till I don’t have to write a signature on a check anymore, it doesn’t even fucking matter.