Critique on What Our Education System Needs Is More F's

he argue the necessity to rebuild our education selecting standard by given more Fs. Singleton note that at present, many of the students who deserve Cs were given Bs, who deserve Ds were given Cs, while who actually fail in education were condoned to pass the school, these phenomenon will harshly reduce the quality of American Educational System. Thus he argues that our discipline instructors should regain their “right” to give Fs.

In the article, Carl Singleton clearly point out that school should give students more F’s in order to improve the quality of education. Carl has shown the fact that in the past 20 years school gave unearned passing grades regardless of whether their students have truly learned the required material. In Carl’s view, then, grading F could help both students and parents realizing their real in-school output. F grade also could leave parents more concern and thus propel their children in learning. By “writing decisively in red ink millions of times”, although a demanding task for both our schools and teachers, Carl believes this measure will help America education fix the lost standard and produce more qualified students. However, Carl gave few credits to the disadvantage of grading F, such as discouraging students from learning, difficulty in setting standard or humiliates children in social circle, which are the very reasons teachers reluctant to lend F’s.

Despite of ardent and ambitious implied in Carl’s suggestion, I would reluctant to take his proposal if I was a high-school teacher. In fact Mr. Carl never noted the reasons why teachers rarely give F to students in practice. He simply attribute this “failure” to teacher’s laziness and reluctance in taking responsibility, with his preconceived notions on this phenomenon. In fact, teachers has many reasons to avoid giving Fs to students, many of them are not such “bad”. In some cases, students will do better if you give them a better grade, in some cases a merely bad grade never...