How my school gamed the stats
Eh, I commiserate with the author, and experienced some of the same in American public school. However, this part of the article really stood out to me, as I couldn&#x27;t imagine it happening in any of my school environments (which were not optimal by any means):<p>&gt; <i>There were many ways in which the school and teachers gamed the system to boost their measured performance. One way was to do exams for students. I was on a bottom set language class for French. After two years I literally couldn’t speak a single sentence in french and maybe knew 20 words in total. I still passed my exams. How? We did the tests in class. Often the teacher would go through them with us. Literally giving us the test and then going through each question on the whiteboard and telling us what to write. A different year and a different teacher, this time the teacher would sit next to us and write the answers down.</i><p>Could this behavior by teachers really be widespread??? I think this is just an anomaly of the author&#x27;s school. Any of my teachers would&#x27;ve been wary of behaving like this. Kids don&#x27;t keep such things quiet! I&#x27;m sure this behavior would be quickly reprimanded by administrators or other teachers in my past schools.