Argumentative Essay Why Grades Aren\'t Necessary PDF

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This is an argumentative essay is about the concept of why grades aren't necessary....

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TOPIC: The Grading system shouldn't exist to judge a student's abilities. Title: Why Grades Aren't Necessary Short Argumentative Essay Grades. The mere mention of the phrase can make you break out in cold chills, tremble your fingers, and slur your words. They have always been, and will almost certainly always be, the sole measure of a child's success and one of the only things that parents care about, with a pedestal erected almost as high as health and survival, and sometimes even higher than wellbeing. People say they will shape your future. Will they, or will they not? Do excellent grades guarantee a bright future? Or are they more harmful than beneficial? What is the point of going to school? Of course, the goal is to learn. Grades also aid in the mapping of our learning. They provide us a notion of how good we are compared to how good we should be, as well as how much we need to improve, assisting us in the learning process. However, society has evolved. The bar for ‘how good we should be' is rising, benefiting only the most elite among pupils and leaving the ‘laggards' in their wake. Learning should be measured by how much you are willing to try, how much time you spend, and how well you grow, not by how well you start out or how talented you are. It is not true that just because a kid is an average in comparison to other pupils that they are incapable of learning. The grading system is a wholly unreliable source of that metric in a society where grades are so important and everyone wants to be better than everyone else. Grading is done by a single teacher, who is guaranteed to be biased, who has different points of view, and who may be affected by their own beliefs. Although an A* from one teacher may only be a B from another, the A* student will believe that they are superior to the B student. When the grading system is so subjective, there is no accounting for a fair standard. Instead of performing what they believe will result in a successful piece of work, the students will endeavor to meet those requirements, effectively boxing them in and limiting their creativity and personality. Grades exist to assist us in better preparing for the future, but when there aren't any, they jeopardize our ability to self-motivate. However, in life, you won't constantly have someone telling you when you should try and when you shouldn't, and you won't always be applauded when you succeed and punished when you fail. This can be detrimental in the long term, particularly in the job, where every action counts. Is it necessary to have a grading system? Do we really want our children to be subjected to an oppressive, subjective, and biased system, one that not only fails to accomplish its own objective but defies it? Learning, after all, should never be viewed as a goal, but rather as a journey, one that cannot and can never be quantified in terms of numbers, letters, or percentages....