The Importance Of Removal Of Grades In The Education System

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Whenever the topic of school is brought up, grades are the main discussion. When someone wants to find information about a class, a few questions that comes to mind are as follow: was the class easy, how were the assignments, and finally, what grade did you get. Grades have become the definition of education today. In a student’s mindset the A matters more, while having not learned important concepts from the course. Grades have tarnished the purpose of an education today. Removal of grades in the education system should be the primary goal of our modern society, because an education is more than a grade it is a combination of many aspects. Removal of grades in our education system creates an environment of reduced stress, promoting self-learning, building relationships, achieving the goal of learning, and produce more efficient ways to measure students’ knowledge. Schools will promote a stress-free environment by removal of the grading system. …show more content…

When there is a stress-free environment students will have a clear mind. For example, many students during a test will have anxiety and will forget everything they have learned in the class for the duration of the exam. On the contrary, when the exam is over and when a student is driving home, suddenly all the answers begin to flow back into their mind. This happens because the student is not stressed anymore. Exams put students in flight or fight mode, which is not an excellent set of mind to be in during a test. Also, grades cause students to procrastinate. Procrastination is defined as the complete neglect of self-regulation: the instinctive delay of an important task the person must complete, despite understanding full well the person will pay the consequences; hence, procrastination is caused by fear and stress. For

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