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When I saw South Korea's grading system, it dawned on me why the country has the lowest birthrate in the world!

It is constant pressure on children to excel, and this translates into agonizing long hours at school, and at home to do very well.

I had 5 A's and 2 C's in both my WEAC and GCE but I doubt I would be able to endure the system.

What about you? Can you survice it? Can your child? Or do you prefer they see expo ?

I don't see the angle from which this correlates with declining birth rate...


You can elaborate more!

grandstar:
When I saw South Korea's grading system, it dawned on me why the country has the lowest birthrate in the world!

It is constant pressure on children to excel, and this translates into agonizing long hours at school, and at home to do very well.

I had 5 A's and 2 C's in both my WEAC and GCE but I doubt I would be able to endure the system.

What about you? Can you survice it? Can your child? Or do you prefer they see expo ?

What should children be doing when parents are out looking for daily bread,is it not to be reading books.
If every child here have the same standard of living and are not learning on empty stomach.Pay teachers well,bring the same curriculum and set daily volume of school work that keeps them away from games,television and Internet browsing.
Grade them accordingly,they have no choice than to achieve results in the same manner

brain54:
I don't see the angle from which this correlates with declining birth rate...


You can elaborate more!

The parents have to work very hard to ensure their children achieve this high grades.

The parents are ready to go to any limit to ensure their children excel. This takes a toll.

Some couples, rather than go through this nightmare, opt out from raring children.

Imagine 60% or less is F and you know there is a problem. There's more to life than this.

Finland, which has the best education in the world, has a much laid back approach that achieves wonders.

The only real benefit of this system is that it makes South Korean students excel when they sojourn overseas.

It is the way Nigerian uni students excel when they go to a UK or US university. A Third Class here student can earn a First Class easily there.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23322039.2017.1389804#abstract

tommy589:
What should children be doing when parents are out looking for daily bread,is it not to be reading books.
If every child here have the same standard of living and are not learning on empty stomach.Pay teachers well,bring the same curriculum and set daily volume of school work that keeps them away from games,television and Internet browsing.
Grade them accordingly,they have no choice than to achieve results in the same manner

This is too much. Not everything is education, work and make money. There needs to be balance.

In climes without such brutal garding scales, students have done quite well such as in Germany and Finland.

I currently have three Korean classmates. One of them narrated how terrible the education pipeline is in Korea due to pressure, and I was like, thank you Jesus for situating me in Nigeria! Life is to be lived without unnecessary constraints. Quote me daily!

brain54:
I don't see the angle from which this correlates with declining birth rate...


You can elaborate more!

It costs money and time...that's the angle he's coming from. The birth rate is very low.

grandstar:
This is too much. Not everything is education, work and make money. There needs to be balance.

In climes without such brutal garding scales, students have done quite well such as in Germany and Finland.

That brutal grading scales transformed Korea to a first world country in just 40 years after end of WW2.
Parents here are built differently. What is life without children? Where our government has failed us our trained children becomes our social security in pensionable age.A family oriented man will sell his last possession to make his children excell in life.
No rest here when life is not balanced.Let them rest where they have back up. Sex is our major form of leisure,so we should have no fear of diminishing population.I welcome this gruelling education if it lifts us from a third world country to a better one in 40 years

Grading 60 as F is ridiculous.

grandstar:
The parents have to work very hard to ensure their children achieve this high grades.

The parents are ready to go to any limit to ensure their children excel. This takes a toll.

Some couples, rather than go through this nightmare, opt out from raring children.

Imagine 60% or less is F and you know there is a problem. There's more to life than this.

Finland, which has the best education in the world, has a much laid back approach that achieves wonders.

The only real benefit of this system is that it makes South Korean students excel when they sojourn overseas.

It is the way Nigerian uni students excel when they go to a UK or US university. A Third Class here student can earn a First Class easily there.

Well, if you say so...


But the strict grading system in Korean education doesn't correlate to low birth rate.

The cost of raising children and the educational system is very high deterring some people from having children altogether. It's different from putting it on the grading systems in schools. They is a difference.

Korea generally has a culture of long hours and overwork which is only reflecting in the educational system of the children. They have always had problems balancing work and family life.

Meaning parents have less time to be making babies. This isn't tied to the grading system in schools. The high grading system of schools can not cause low birth rates. It's not the kids in school not having time to giving birth or procreating but their parents.

I hope you understand the difference in what I'm saying though!

If you are complaining about the pressure...

Or strict conditions that the grading system puts on the kids and that it overworks them then that's a different talk altogether.

Most of the Asian countries like Japan and China have the same problem of overwork and not balancing family life with work. But this doesn't result in low birth rates except you telling me it affects their biological makeup somehow that enables them not to be able to birth kids in the future that makes the birth rate drop.


Korean has many reasons for dropping birthrates including high cost of living, education etc but grading shouldn't be described as a contributory factor to low birth rates!

brain54:
I don't see the angle from which this correlates with declining birth rate...


You can elaborate more!

People who go through this system go through massive depression. South Korean students as young as 3 have been reported to have depression en mass. A lot of them would probably not want their own kids to go through what they went through hence their reluctance to have kids in the future.

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/child-depression-in-south-korea-jumps-70-in-4-years-study

theres nothing wrong with their grading system .


there are so many reasons for declining birth rates including the eduxated and independent a woman the more she tends to favour less to no children.


Korean schooling system and workplace culture descends from the chinese. If ypu see how brewtal their civil service exams is , you go weep till thy kingdom come .


Asian schooling system is one pf the best and is much better than western education. In korea, subjects except english are taught in korean plus parents are presszred to enrpll their kids in A1 lesson academies.

You can't really judge by those scores, before you do, you really need to compare the difficulty in attaining those scores over there, you may be surprised that a C student in Nigeria will comfortably be an A student over there when subjected to their teaching and grading method.

Don't judge by the system.
That's also the U.S. system.
I had a total of 16 A's in all my prerequisites. (90 & above)
But when I was in Nigeria I had mostly B's
An averagely smart Naija kid can survive it well not to talk of Geniuses

No biggie, you simply Mmesoma them

Third Class student here in Nigeria dont earn a First Class easily there. How many of Nigerian first class students even went on to earn distinction abroad sef. Its time you people stop this ridiculous claims. Many of these people even use contract writers. Lol

grandstar:
The parents have to work very hard to ensure their children achieve this high grades.

The parents are ready to go to any limit to ensure their children excel. This takes a toll.

Some couples, rather than go through this nightmare, opt out from raring children.

Imagine 60% or less is F and you know there is a problem. There's more to life than this.

Finland, which has the best education in the world, has a much laid back approach that achieves wonders.

The only real benefit of this system is that it makes South Korean students excel when they sojourn overseas.

It is the way Nigerian uni students excel when they go to a UK or US university. A Third Class here student can earn a First Class easily there.

tommy589:
What should children be doing when parents are out looking for daily bread,is it not to be reading books.
If every child here have the same standard of living and are not learning on empty stomach.Pay teachers well,bring the same curriculum and set daily volume of school work that keeps them away from games,television and Internet browsing.
Grade them accordingly,they have no choice than to achieve results in the same manner

The saying all fingers are not equal will still apply. Even with the same upbringing and opportunities you will still have difference between children in terms of educational capacity because their brains are not uniform.

grandstar:
When I saw South Korea's grading system, it dawned on me why the country has the lowest birthrate in the world!

It is constant pressure on children to excel, and this translates into agonizing long hours at school, and at home to do very well.

I had 5 A's and 2 C's in both my WEAC and GCE but I doubt I would be able to endure the system.

What about you? Can you survice it? Can your child? Or do you prefer they see expo ?

They go to school Monday to Sunday.

They are under serious mental pressure by their nuclear-armed North Korean brothers and sisters who keep taunting them daily from loudspeakers and drop trash on them.

Wow ! Highly competitive. I like it already

Dey play.


Nigerians can survive anywhere

Don't be surprised the scoring system there might be very generous. Just like in some private universities, getting 95% is very easy. In some federal universities on the other hand, getting even 70% which is the start point for an A is nearly impossible. In my primary and secondary school I was consistently getting between 95 and 100%. But in university it was even considered criminal to give anyone above 70% in some courses in medicine, no matter how much you write

Even the spirits know South Korea has the most stringent and complicated University Entrance exams and grading systems. I love their emphasis on quality education but by making it extremely and unnecessarily competitive erases the joy of learning. After all it's not like South Korean Scientists have discovered how to live forever..

Nigerian kids are really smart. All they need is a little refining here and there, and they are good to go.

So far it is the grading system there, then they are used to it. Nothing special

There's nothing new here. That's the collegial grading system in Canada. It's 95-100 A+, 90-95 A, 80-89 B, 70-79 C, and 60-69 D. If you score less than 60, you repeat the course. That's the grading system in private and government colleges in Ontario Canada

grandstar:
When I saw South Korea's grading system, it dawned on me why the country has the lowest birthrate in the world!

It is constant pressure on children to excel, and this translates into agonizing long hours at school, and at home to do very well.

I had 5 A's and 2 C's in both my WEAC and GCE but I doubt I would be able to endure the system.

What about you? Can you survice it? Can your child? Or do you prefer they see expo ?

A wrong approach to learning especially in Nigeria where all the As didnt translate to innovations

Same as some European universities too.

grandstar:
When I saw South Korea's grading system, it dawned on me why the country has the lowest birthrate in the world!

It is constant pressure on children to excel, and this translates into agonizing long hours at school, and at home to do very well.

I had 5 A's and 2 C's in both my WEAC and GCE but I doubt I would be able to endure the system.

What about you? Can you survice it? Can your child? Or do you prefer they see expo ?

Average students in Nigeria often turn out to be excellent students in advanced countries.

grandstar:
The parents have to work very hard to ensure their children achieve this high grades.

The parents are ready to go to any limit to ensure their children excel. This takes a toll.

Some couples, rather than go through this nightmare, opt out from raring children.

Imagine 60% or less is F and you know there is a problem. There's more to life than this.

Finland, which has the best education in the world, has a much laid back approach that achieves wonders.

The only real benefit of this system is that it makes South Korean students excel when they sojourn overseas.

It is the way Nigerian uni students excel when they go to a UK or US university. A Third Class here student can earn a First Class easily there.

But Finland birthrate is low, so what's your point?

This is how it in many private institutions around the world, even a few in Nigeria.