Word: graders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...least among the blessed, were such an innovation to be made, would be the grader, who perennially complains about student penmanship...
...would be unusual," remarked a Government tutor, "to give less than an 'A--' to one of my tutees." But as no marks are guaranteed before they reach University Hall, the student tends to regard his tutor as a grader, and acts accordingly. The tutorial program, adapted from British universities, purports to bridge the gap between the pupil and pedagogue; however, when a tutor must evaluate this in terms of a grade, it limits a free exchange of ideas and creates a false atmosphere. As a history tutor explained, "Some students invent problems just so they can come to my office...
...system lies in that it "looks at a child as if it were a small-size adult." Lip reading and learning the rudimentary ABCs are taboo; the word "children" is "children" only because Teacher says so, not from any deciphering of its component letter-sounds. Result: a third-grader is "unable to decipher 90% of his own speaking and listening vocabulary when he sees it in print...
Perhaps the classic case of examination confusion resulted from an hour exam in a Social Relations course one year. A student not enrolled in the course decided to pass some spare time by taking the test, even though he knew nothing about "inter-personal" relations except the jargon. A grader obligingly corrected the blue-book and returned it with a C-plus and the comment: "Good ideas--somewhat undeveloped...
Johns, riding his campaign road grader hard, pledged a good part of the state's entire road funds to a single Jacksonville highway. Wearing a made-to-order train conductor's uniform, he whooped it up with his "wool-hat boys," sneered at the "silk stockings." He even made an issue of foreign aid ("I think the money should be spent in America, for Americans, and particularly for the old folks"). His demagoguery seemed like a surefire success until last week's voting...