{"id":18519,"date":"2021-10-02T07:05:09","date_gmt":"2021-10-02T14:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=18519"},"modified":"2021-10-02T07:05:09","modified_gmt":"2021-10-02T14:05:09","slug":"overnight-news-if-all-youre-teaching-is-nothing-why-give-grades-at-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/18519\/overnight-news-if-all-youre-teaching-is-nothing-why-give-grades-at-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Overnight News: If all you\u2019re teaching is nothing, why give grades at\u00a0all?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cIn big cities, they raise children like unloved puppies. That’s why there’s shit\u00a0everywhere.\u201d<\/p><\/div>I studied Latin as an adult, in pursuit of nothing but self-improvement, which might-could tell you something: I spent my time and my money \u2013 costing myself earning opportunities \u2013 and, accordingly, I studied. I learned Latin well enough to teach it, and my study guides earn me plaudits from young Latinists all over the world \u2013 when midterms and finals roll around.<\/p>\n

The other students were mostly kids, but all of them were taking Latin as a course required by their majors, not because they wanted to read De Bello Gallico<\/em> in the original. As a result, they discovered real studying for the first time in their lives. They had all just been shining it on, all along \u2013 class discussions and rambling essays and group projects \u2013 even in math classes! They found the wall in Latin class: If you can’t keep up, you will be left behind.<\/p>\n

The teacher graded from A to J \u2013 and even an F was once worse than an E. The point she was getting across is that there is a lot to get wrong, and she was kind enough to point out everything. If you studied, you were fine, but you had to give the work as much time as it needed \u2013 every day \u2013 or you were instantly overwhelmed. The class went from 40 to 20 students in three weeks.<\/p>\n

No one lives or dies on discriminations among semi-deponent verbs, but everything we rely on relies on people who know what they are doing. A middle-school in Minnesota proposes to eliminate the F grade<\/a> \u2013 to combat the ‘systemic racism’ known as academic excellence \u2013 which notion deserves a grade lower than J.<\/p>\n

I realized when I was a young scruffian in New York than the welfare system replicates the plantation system \u2013 “the second time as farce.” It is funny but not fun to watch people attempting to erect an aristocracy of the inept. But it won’t be funny at all when you tender you life into the Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cIn big cities, they raise children like unloved puppies. That’s why there’s shit\u00a0everywhere.\u201dI studied Latin as an adult, in pursuit of nothing but self-improvement, which might-could tell you something: I spent my time and my money \u2013 costing myself earning opportunities \u2013 and, accordingly, I studied. I learned Latin well enough to teach it, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,26,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18519","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-group-therapy","7":"category-lending","8":"category-marketing","9":"category-real-estate","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3282,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3282\/casual-friday-caption-this-photo\/","url_meta":{"origin":18519,"position":0},"title":"Casual Friday: Caption this photo","author":"Greg Swann","date":"June 27, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"My entry: \"Because I happen to like Argyle socks, that's why!\"","rel":"","context":"In "Casual Friday"","block_context":{"text":"Casual Friday","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/casual-friday\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3822,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3822\/caption-this-photo-president-bush-at-the-olympics\/","url_meta":{"origin":18519,"position":1},"title":"Caption this photo: President Bush at the Olympics","author":"Greg Swann","date":"August 9, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"My entry: \"A gentleman always makes eye-contact.\"","rel":"","context":"In "Casual Friday"","block_context":{"text":"Casual Friday","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/casual-friday\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8385,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/8385\/caption-me-this-magnum\/","url_meta":{"origin":18519,"position":2},"title":"Caption Me This Magnum","author":"Brian Brady","date":"May 13, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"My vote?\u00a0 \"Who let Higgins in to your closet, Thomas? \" Sometimes, you just gotta have a sense of humor.","rel":"","context":"In "Casual Friday"","block_context":{"text":"Casual Friday","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/casual-friday\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3289,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3289\/shout-out-a-toast-to-life-abundant-and-caption-this-photo\/","url_meta":{"origin":18519,"position":3},"title":"Shout out a toast to life abundant — and caption this photo","author":"Greg Swann","date":"June 28, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Sez me: \"Bill Gates stole this facial expression from me and I want it back!\"","rel":"","context":"In "Casual Friday"","block_context":{"text":"Casual Friday","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/casual-friday\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":14685,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/14685\/caption-obama-before-his-face-freezes-like-that\/","url_meta":{"origin":18519,"position":4},"title":"Caption Obama — before his face freezes like that.","author":"Greg Swann","date":"June 15, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"My vote: \"I don't get it. 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