The fundamental basis of today’s unequal society is mainly due to greed, and the “winners and losers” ethic. Now, society dictates that the winners can go on, and little attempt should be made to make the so called “losers” into the so called “winners”. Just like Barack Obama’s do-nothing Kenyan family. Should we have cast them aside too?
In the modern school, there is active encouragement of the rank system, with a grey bar to show the top 80%, a line to show the average, and letters sent home to the one that comes last a.k.a. the loser. Parents also encourage the student, to actively do better, get in the top ten, top half. They do not realize that every rank up for one means that one must go down. And so this is mirrored in society, where extremely talented artists will be forced onto the streets without any value in their proficiency. However, a rich person may be born straight into a position of power. And so again, a talented sketch artist scrapes off a living by selling fine pieces of art for a minimum pay, and a do-nothing CEO has all the advantages laid bare in front of them, ripe for picking.
Also, in the school’s history classes, people are spoon-fed information, to be just swallowed to come out in the other end. No pieces linked together, no connection, just random shards. Maybe to keep one ignorant from the turbulent past, where the class system has cast off many hopeful lives that could have contributed greatly, as simple “losers”.
Schools tell the “losers” to try harder. That I support. But what is interesting is that the school does not drop barriers for them, and that, well, that can be compared to telling someone to climb a large wall without support.
And when support finally comes, and if it helps, it means that their rank would improve. And another will drop. And so the cycle continues. Just like life really.
So I say – SCRAP the damn rankings. SCRAP the bar. SCRAP the box. Why the hell does society need losers. That laughable “incentive”? Is the point of school just for a rank? Is information given for a higher rank? Well no. Of course not. Why should we not have an emphasis on the actual mark and comment? Why should we not learn how to help the world, rather than turn into a battlefield of constant competition, and holding up ones prestige?
And to my final conclusion. The rank system in schools is a thing that encourages competition, a system that benefits the winners, and which is mirrored by real society, and throws away all possibility of advancement in the losers. Prove that I lie.
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这个是小朋友原创的。有空我会跟他一起翻译成中文
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英文论文哈，让我儿子来学习一下。
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牛，原来HD也是左派
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lz同学让我想起了梵高先生，还有希尔顿小姐。^_^
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用google翻译吗？ 然后再纠错？
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a do-nothing CEO has all the advantages laid bare in front of them, ripe for picking.
不知孩子怎么对CEO有这种看法，似乎偏激了点
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HD同学挺有想法的。
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兔小d，造反有理，支持你。
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是的，我就是左派的
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我是对CEO有偏见。比如说悉尼机场的CEO，如果有事故发生，不是他们的事，是他们的员工的错，他们自己还是可以拿到大把的钱，员工拿的钱却比CEO少好几倍。那要CEO干嘛？
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不知道是不是青少年就是想法偏激。我们辩论好多次了，无果
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支持你，华尔街闹出了经济危机，可那些ceo还拿更高薪，吃香的喝辣的，不公平哈！
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兔小弟几年级了？
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我让女儿来看了下HD的大作，她大大的表扬了楼主，她说她肯定写不出这样的文章来。
楼主的文章有空多来贴几篇，让我们都看看JR学生的想法。
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Year 8
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支持小朋友。这么小有自己的想法和看法就是牛娃，这比成绩重要。
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小小男子汉很有想法！鼓励下！
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年轻人看问题是容易片面和偏激的，阅历多了自然层次和角度就多了，和他们辨是没有用滴，等小兔当上CEO他自然就知道他拿的比员工多也应该比员工多了。
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school ranking 确实弊大于利，所以之前一直不公开，最近的工党才搞出来的
class ranking 更是摧残学生自尊的东西
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我完全不觉得小朋友偏激的，支持
小朋友是最具正义感的
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建议楼主同学将来可以去学历史，法律，中年后从政。
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嗯，楼主的确可以考虑将来从政，有双语的优势，读了这么多历史和政治方面的书，不要浪费了。
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还有Class Ranking？
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某些补习班 有的
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有时候社会就是要鼓励竞争啊！有竞争，有挑战，一个人才有发展的动力。
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竞争是必要的， 也是残酷的
高中之前的竞争还是少点好
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他觉得CEO应该拿员工工资的四倍，而不是几十倍
这个数字应该是他某本书里看来的
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他就是这么打算的。楼主妈妈表示担忧
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从政也是一种职业，为什么不能去做？
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