Original post by thotproduct"intellectual intelligence"?
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One of the facets of school is to objectively quantify one's academic 'intelligence', notice I say academic intelligence, well, one specific purpose at least, along with nurturing etc, but assessment in the context of final examinations. As George said earlier, the idea of continuous assessment would only really hold for the minority, one who got a B or C in Y10 shouldn't be denied the top grades if he smashed the final assessment in Y11, and it appears here you're implying that we should adopt a continuous examination system, so as to prevent judgement on 'one final exam's performance'. An anecdote would be like when my one teacher at our school lost 16 pieces of coursework, costing the maximum grades to the brightest Biologists, who, for all intents and purposes, got the maximum grades possible and still didn't achieve what they wanted, the final exam where it really matters. Without the idea of assessment and without the resilience and properties that emerge out of preparing for said examinations, what have you got left? School basically just becomes a btec youth club. I received straight A*s and As because of mental health resources our school had in place, not a complete overhaul of the system that everyone is used to, whilst MH is for sure a problem, changing the entire system just to solve one problem will just end up creating others.
Additionally it's not as if it hasn't been done before, this system has been in place for many years. And whilst I do genuinely respect when one has struggles external to school, or mental or physical health difficulties that hinder preparation, the long time establishment of this system means that we can implement measures to ensure that these people aren't restricted based on factors out of their own control. However I do agree that more needs to be put in place for students' mental health needs, especially with new reform, however I don't think such a system should be completely overhauled, this sudden change to the system is only surely going to cause more stress and anxiety since it's a completely new, fresh, untested idea, when everyone is finally getting comfortable with the system we already have, this change is just way too drastic, whilst it may potentially benefit those in the future, imagine the stress of the students who's system they've worked in their whole schooling lives is just suddenly yanked out from under them and replaced, adjustment can be especially difficult. School's need more MH funding perhaps, but a complete overhaul seems a bit overkill to say the least.