Can't read, can't write

[tiggerblue10]

Did anyone else see this this on C4 earlier? The ending did bring a little tear to my eye.

I have some dyslexic issues like I miss out words when typing or sometimes I miss words when reading and I have to read the sentence again. My grammer is also very bad.

Do other ABers have similar issues?

[Ice.Maiden]

Sorry - I mean do they just make an assessment on the work done in class, or not even bother with that until the final exams?

[pinktwink]

exams are on course work at christmas and end of year to assist with what level children are at. also our system is totally different than the uk we do not have continuous assessment. There is not the option of going to a college at 16 years college occurs after leaving cert exams which is equivalent to a levels. For those not as academic there is the leaving cert applied. I think it is a better sysyem (bias), there are more subjects examined at both levels offering more variety. Going to college at a later age is much better for children/young people

[Slooow_Jo]

@pinktwink am I reading right that you are from eire? if so I've heard its not only the education departments that are doing well!!

[pinktwink]

tes i am irish

[Ice.Maiden]

I don't blame you for being bias - lol - and it certainly seems more like the system we had over here in the "old days" - when, I have to say - education seemed better than it is now.
Unfortunately, respect for teachers seems to've gone out of the window in many schools, so this makes teaching in general much more difficult.

[Slooow_Jo]

I agree Iccy

[jno]

my Mum taught me to read before I went to school. Never regretted it, and jno jnr got the same treatment.

From about the age of 8, we used to have exams - written tests twice a year, on which our school reports were based. Nobody ever complained that we were overworked. Learning was what we went to school for, after all. When I got to secondary school, the exams were every term (three a year). We all coped.

But I must say, when I left university at about 22, I decided I was never going to sit another exam again, and I never have. I'm still learning stuff every day, but I no longer wish someone else to assess how I'm doing.

The odd thing is that I never saw anyone dyslexic. I'm not saying it doesn't exist; I think kids who suffered from it were just regarded as a bit slower than others. There wasn't any great stigma attached to it - it was just accepted that everyone was different. But I don't think I ever met anyone with the serious learning difficulties you see on programmes like this. So I sometimes wonder if it's not learning at all but something to do with changing diet, for instance, or changing climate, like the increase in asthma?