Grades

Education is one of the most important values we have in order to mantain our society. Education provides children the capacity to became independent human beings. Due to the importance of education when you are a child, it is a very often discussed the better way to improve childrens capacities. In almost every country (at least in the European Union), grading is the way chosen to evaluate children’s proficiency. Still, grading children is a issue that differs very much from one country to another. As well as in Spain, children are grading since they enter school, in Sweden they are not until they reach the 6th grade.

In my opinion, grading is not the best way to evaluate and, after all, improve the educational proccess for children. I believe that both, teachers and parents, they are responsible for children’s education. They have to try to make children aware of the importance of education, and reward them when they are doing the best. Grading them, instead of be viewed as a reward for they efforts, in my opinion, is watched by children as a punishment. When they are so young, marks could make them feel if they were under a kind of pressure they are not yet used to. I think that become prepared to be graded is a time issue that needs teacher’s and parent’s efforts to work properly.

On the other hand, some people argue that children have to be graded as soon as possible to make aware them of education is a good only for them. They are the only responsibles of their own education, and they have to do it the best as they can, so they have to be conscious of that since they are very young.

From my point of view, children’s responsability is not only based on the idea they have to get the best mark on an exam. I think that the goal of children’s education is make they want to study because they have realized that education is the only thing is going to make one person different from each other in this world plenty of competitiveness. That education is not just a grade, it is a opportunity they cannot waste if they want to be a complet and a free person.