Grades

The purpose for grades is to accurately assess a students knowledge on  a given subject. I don't neccessarily agree with grades but do think they are required to fairly judge the student's knowledge. Also I think that the 100 point system is good because it is the easiest to use. Without the grading system teacher's could just give bad grades based on looks or if they liked the student or not. I think we should keep the current grading system based on the fariness of the system. Also why change if we already knows it works? All- in- all even if the current system doesn't evaluate all areas of a student's knowledge it still is the best and fairest one I know of.

What Grades Mean To Me:

• A- Awesome
• B- Bad Job
• C- Can't Show Mom
• D- Dead Walking
• F- Failure At Life

What Grades Mean To Teacher's:

• A- Awesome
• B- Above Average
• C- Average
• D- Below Average
• F- Fail

The Backwards g

Has anyone else ever wondered why a "g" is backwards on the computer. The reason for this is because the normal "g" has two typographic variants. One for the single story "g" and one for the double- story "g". The duble story loop mainly became used when papers were printing "Roman Style" fonts. For More information on this visitthe great wikipedia article:
history of the g

Creativity Crisis

I believe that school's in america are really taking the creativity out of learning. I believe that instead of making original and creative projects in school, kids are making the same type of project but with a little variation. For example if your teacher in math tells you to make a poster with the required things on it and a wow factor. Most kids will do all the requirements in the same way as everyone else but their wow factor won't really be much of a wow. It is probably some glitter or maybe a colored posterboard. I believe that students should be able to have more freedom in school and on projects. Maybe the teacher should let you make any type of project you want. instead of having to choose from a list. Doing so will definitely make the project more fun and make it a lot more interesting.
I recently read a Newsweek article called The Creativity Crisis. I also saw a Ted Talk by Sir Ken Robinson. Both the article and video agree with me when I say that school is destroying creativity. I also feel that if this continues it could really hurt in the long run. let's say that my generation grows up and has no more creativity. What happens when we are faced with a problem that hasn't been solved yet. How will we fix it. and better yet how could we make sure it doesn't happen again. Everything imaginable requires creativity to achieve. Like cleaning up an oil spill. Sure it has happened before but someone could use their creativity to think of a new way. All I am saying is that we need to embrace creativity not destroy it.