"Don't you want something else?
Something new, that what we've got here?
And don't you feel it's all the same?
Some sick game, and it's not insicere."
"Everything's Just Wonderful" - Lily Allen
As a student, it's fair for me to confess I'm really lazy. I take A's and B's in exams easily, but I barely do anything at home. This has been making my capacity of taking good grades less noticable, in the sense that it gets compensated by grade-lowering lacks when it comes to homework in general. For that reason, though I acknowledge school is meant to prepare us for adult life and the hard work it requires, I propose the following system:
Each student can choose, for every subject, if they want a passive subject (exams counting more and reducing homework and its significance) or an active one (more relying in effort and work and less in inherent capacity). Every student must choose a mínimum of x active subjects (being x a variable depending on the total number of subjects in the year/center; the proportion between x and the number of subjects might vary from one center and year to another) in order to pass the year.
That way, students will be able to work in the subjects they like the most or have bigger difficulties with while also being able to discover and learn from other subjects without them taking the attention dedicated to the previous ones.
However, this system would require adaptation to the concrete centers where it would be applied and judgement by teachers, parents, and, mostly, students. That's why I'd really want to hear what other students think about this! So, if you're a student (or a teacher! or a parent!), regardless of your age, country and level, it would be really interesting to have your comment. Maybe another post will be made regarding the statistics taken from this coment section in the future!
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