Redefining Success, Beyond Grades in Education | When Learning is Trauma #shorts

29 Apr 2024 · 1 min

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This content was created by Lois Letchford. This content was uploaded by Lois Letchford. This is a YouTube short titled "Redefining Success, Beyond Grades in Education | When Learning is Trauma #shorts" (uploaded 2024-04-29). The excerpt is a spoken segment in which a speaker critiques how schools primarily judge children by grades, argues that children did not choose to be judged on a narrow set of skills, and raises concerns about blaming children for not meeting those standards. The speaker addresses someone named Martin, suggesting this is from a discussion or interview focused on education, trauma, and redefining success beyond grades.

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judging children on whether they can conform to the demands of this narrow skill set. Yes. And so what happens when you're at school, you are judged on chiefly on your grades. That's what, that's, that's what school is there for. You are judged on your grades. If you don't achieve the grades, you are therefore, if you like, negatively judged. And what we're, what we're doing is we're basically saying to children, this is something that you never chose, You never chose to be judged on this. If you can't do it, somehow it's your fault. Why, why do we do that? Martin, can