Dr. Deming Naive? You, sir, are misguided and unfortunately,
misinformed of the genius of the master Dr. Shewhart, and his
disiple and messenger to the latter half of the 20th century,
Dr. Deming.
Humans want to do a good job. Dr. Deming was pellucid on this
point. People and school fit nicely into this axiom.
what you fail to understand is the profound knowledge of
thinking preparing, and continual improvement. Grading is nice,
succinct, and above all, usually useless in its existing
design. Does grading permit our student to readdress problem or
slow areas? In many cases grading only shows how well you did,
based on varying factors-The next test, completely different.
we have all seen studies where the pretty girl is awarded better
grades for the same caliber of work as others. we have all
seen reports where teachers are wrong in their suppositions,
then corrected or challenged by students, ultimately leading
these educators to hold a grudge for "attitude and behavior"
when report card time recurs.
Do you want to know why the AFT and the NEA are against teaching
LOGIC in elementary schools (Logic being the foundation for all
higher math applications)?
Could it be because some protege will learn to ask the harder
questions? Possibly Some "smart alec" will not accept our
educator's "Because I told you it did."
A recent report found Elementary educators, when pressed for
answers they did not know, simply "winged it." This sophristry
unfortunately happens when our educators are not versed in the
sciences, history or math, and they wish to appear (to
themselves and) to their students, smart.
People want to do a good job. Grading allows teachers to make
decisions in our children's early years based on mostly the
faliable educator's emotions toward that one particular budding
mind. Grading should be benchmarks for ever improvement based
on practice, practice practice of the fundementals. Then of
course moving foward with a keen sence of where the student is
going. Any good music teacher will tell you the ones who
practice the fundemental scales, dilegently, go on to master the
difficult pieces.
Read the book OUT OF CRISES again, and again. I assure you, you
will soon "get it."
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