We are all so used to reading of disadvantaged students in schools of the world. We hear that there are so many students who dream of being doctors, teachers and airline pilots.
They are unable to do so because of poverty of family and lack of funding.
In Papua New Guinea, there is a strong underclass particularly in the rural areas. This report has been prepared to explain the worst case scenario of a raskol, thug underclass among students who have no intention of studying and passing exams, particularly in boarding schools.
They are at boarding school because their parents paid the school fee. Now under the Universal Basic Education, they have not had to pass the grade 6 exam.
They can go all the way to the end of grade 8 without having to account to any person for their school results. They can throw their report cards into the river.
Some will be illiterate and unable to study. In years before, the community schools were allocated places for 1 or 2 students to go on to high school regardless of their results.
It was possible for a student to fail the grade 6 competitive exam in a rural school and go on to high school.
There have been strange practices in PNG schools. One was that school results of individual students were confidential.
The teacher returns test papers to students upside down on the student's desk so that no other student can see the result.
Students who did not sit for tests could not be given a zero mark. They had to be given one mark under the class average.
Some students would disappear into the bordering jungle on test day to smoke and wait for the end of the test. They knew they would be given a mark.
In one high school in Morobe province in 1994, there was a very bright young woman by the name of Geua who answered any questions in class and offered opinions just like the two bright students in the fantasy Colgate advertisement on PNG TV.
I clean my teeth with Colgate. I can munch apples. So say two very bright students with gleaming teeth. We'll bash them later say the underclass students.
It took about 4 weeks for Geua to go silent. She had been dumbed down by the underclass in grade 7. I have seen her around the town in recent years. She was studying at the University of Papua New Guinea for her Masters in Science.
There has been a dumbing down of the bright students in classes who suffer intimidation from the underclass students for achieving high results in tests.
It was important that their results be confidential to protect bright students from being intimidated out of class.
My two daughters reported a few years ago that they contributed in class but were told by the class girls to 'shut up you white bitch'. Now they just shut up.
My two daughters reported a few years ago that they contributed in class but were told by the class girls to 'shut up you white bitch'. Now they just shut up.
Grade 9 used to be a relief for the highly achieving students as the first major group of underclass students were removed at the end of grade 8 on the basis of test results. Now there was less intimidation.
But with Universal Basic Education, the underclass trouble makers would still be there until the end of grade 8. The brighter students have less time to shine before the grade 10 exams.
So for the more capable students, the task is to pass the exams and remain safe from intimidation by the grade 7 and 8 underclass students.
The higher they study, the less they have to hide their skill and pretend to be academically weak. The underclass has been culled.
The next culling will be at the end of Grade 10. Then the balance changes towards the more capable students.
Underclass students are those who have no intention to study and achieve. They may be illiterate and have never read a book. In the library lesson, they look at pictures in books.
There will be boys in the underclass who want only to leave school and live in the towns. They will spend their time with a bit of rape, homebrew, marijuana, robbery and assault.
Who needs to read and write? They may only get education now in one of the gaols of the nation.
Talk of an underclass is probably not politically correct. That's life.
It seems that the United States has a similar problem as we read in the Google reports on the Dumbing Down of Education. Please click:
FAMILY POSITIVE LIVING - AIDS HOLISTICS: IS OBE LESS ...
In the wrong hands, Outcomes Based Education will be an essential part of Dumbing Down of a Nation. Ignore the basics and focus on research. Assume that the reading and writing in research will provide the basics.
Do not learn to fly an aircraft. Just climb into the cockpit and learn as you fly. If you survive, you will graduate.
So you want to be a brain surgeon? Do not study physiology. Just learn about the bits of brain as you operate. Keep reassuring the patient. Now where did that bit come from?
The higher they study, the less they have to hide their skill and pretend to be academically weak. The underclass has been culled.
The next culling will be at the end of Grade 10. Then the balance changes towards the more capable students.
Underclass students are those who have no intention to study and achieve. They may be illiterate and have never read a book. In the library lesson, they look at pictures in books.
There will be boys in the underclass who want only to leave school and live in the towns. They will spend their time with a bit of rape, homebrew, marijuana, robbery and assault.
Who needs to read and write? They may only get education now in one of the gaols of the nation.
Talk of an underclass is probably not politically correct. That's life.
It seems that the United States has a similar problem as we read in the Google reports on the Dumbing Down of Education. Please click:
FAMILY POSITIVE LIVING - AIDS HOLISTICS: IS OBE LESS ...
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hope, peace ... Dumbing Down of Education in US, PNG and Australia.
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The dumbing down of education in the USA has been attributed to the Government policy of universal education for all students regardless of academic achievement.
There is developing an American school underclass. It feels like a Mel Gibson movie about the people living in the New York sewerage system after atomic fallout.
The dumbing down of education in the USA has been attributed to the Government policy of universal education for all students regardless of academic achievement.
There is developing an American school underclass. It feels like a Mel Gibson movie about the people living in the New York sewerage system after atomic fallout.
In the wrong hands, Outcomes Based Education will be an essential part of Dumbing Down of a Nation. Ignore the basics and focus on research. Assume that the reading and writing in research will provide the basics.
Do not learn to fly an aircraft. Just climb into the cockpit and learn as you fly. If you survive, you will graduate.
So you want to be a brain surgeon? Do not study physiology. Just learn about the bits of brain as you operate. Keep reassuring the patient. Now where did that bit come from?
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