No More Exams in Schools?

Post author:Zsolt Zsemba
Post published:June 20, 2024
Post category:blog,

A Rant About Education

So, I read a few articles in the Toronto Star and the Toronto Sun about getting rid of exams. At first, I was cheering like I was back in high school and didn’t need to write those darn exams. But realistically, I wasn’t happy. It seems like a great move for teacher’s unions to do less work, using student anxiety as a cover-up.

Hold on a minute here.

Let’s backtrack to what school should be! First and foremost, it should educate students. Okay, I could write a book about how much I hate the teaching methods and many teachers’ attitudes, approaches, and the testing itself. But let’s just say the school system and teachers are there to educate our children.

Preparation

While I went through school, I felt it did little to prepare me for real life. Since I was involved in the family business, I was living a real life and getting more education by learning and understanding the business than school ever taught me. But for those who didn’t have what I had, preparation for real life is a must, right?

After all, there are deadlines to meet, and work needs to be done on time!

Not according to the articles where the poor children are having anxiety! What the heck, people? Life is filled with problems and challenges. How will our children cope with life when all of reality is hidden from them, and oh my god, their precious mental health is being challenged?

Life and Challenges

I’m very sorry, but no individual will ever go through life without anxiety, nervousness, and fear. No matter who you are, you’ve worried about many things. Is worrying anxiety? No, there’s a difference between normal worrying and crippling anxiety.

So, how about this, you very well-educated teachers and school boards?

How about we address these known facts and trace all this “stuff” back to its root cause like a quality issue? We need an ISO 9001 for the children and the system to help them with anxiety issues instead of taking away the hurdles of reality and life. Teach the kids about life, explain the challenges, and help them with anxiety instead of creating a bunch of wimps. Do you think China and Japan are easing off on exams? No, they’ll leave Canada in the dust. Wake up, you bunch of fools, and grow a pair!

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Zsolt Zsemba

Zsolt Zsemba has worn many different hats. He has been an entrepreneur, and businessman for over 30 years. Living abroad has given him many amazing experiences in life and also sparked his imagination for writing. After moving to Canada from Hungary at the age of 10 and working in a family business for a large part of his life. The switch from manufacturing to writing came surprisingly easily for him. His passion for writing began at age 12, mostly writing poetry and short stories. In 1999, the chance came to write scripts. Zsolt took some time off from his family business to write in Jakarta Indonesia for MD Entertainment. Having written dozens of soap operas and made for TV movies, in 2003 Zsolt returned to the family business once more. In 2018, he had the chance to head back to Asia once again. He took on the challenge to be the COO for MD Pictures and get back into the entertainment business. The entertainment business opened up the desire to write once more and the words began to flow onto the pages again. He decided to rewrite a book he began years ago. Organ House was reborn and is a fiction suspense novel while Scars is a young adult drama focused on life’s challenges. After the first two books, his desire to write not only became more challenging but enjoyable as well. After having several books completed he was convinced to publish them for your enjoyment. Zsolt does not tend to stay in one specific genre but tends to lean towards strong female leads and horror. Though he also has a few human interest books, he tends to write about whatever brews in his brain for a while.