Program logic bugs vs input/environmental errors

[Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d]

On 10/05/2014 05:35 AM, "Ola Fosheim =?UTF-8?B?R3LDuHN0YWQi?= 
<ola.fosheim.grostad+dlang at gmail.com>" wrote:
> On Sunday, 5 October 2014 at 09:06:45 UTC, Paolo Invernizzi wrote:
>> Oh, I think that here in Italy we outperform your country with that,
>> as for sure we are the most bureaucratised country on the hearth.
>
> Hah! In Norway parents sign evaluation of progress for 6 years old
> school children every 2 weeks due to a "quality reform". And and  all
> pupils are kept on the same level of progress so that nobody should feel
> left behind due to "social democracy principles"...

Aside from those 2 week evals (ouch!), the US isn't a whole lot 
different. US schools are still notoriously bureaucracy-heavy (just ask 
any school employee), and "No child left behind" is a big thing (at 
least, supposedly) while any advanced kids are capped at the level of 
the rest of their age group and forbidden from advancing at their own 
level (thus boring the shit out of them and seeding quite a few 
additional problems).

Partly, that level-capping is done because there's a prevalent (but 
obviously BS) belief that kids should be kept with others of the same 
age, rather than with others of the same level of development or even a 
healthy mix. But also, they call this capping of advanced students 
"Being fair to the *other* kids". Obviously US teachers have no idea 
what the word "fair" actually means. But then, in my experience, there's 
a LOT that US teachers don't know.

I blame both the teacher's unions (that's not intended as a statement on 
unions in general, BTW) and the complete and total lack of "logic" being 
part of the curriculum *they* were taught as kids (which is still 
inexcusably absent from modern curriculums).

> In Italy you have
> Montesorri! Consider yourself lucky!
>

US has a few of those too. They're constantly ridiculed (leave it to the 
US to blast anything that isn't group-think-compatible), but from what 
I've seen Montesorri's are at least less god-awful than US public 
schools. I almost went to one (but backed out since, by that point, it 
would have only been for one year - actually wound up with one of the 
best teachers I ever had that year, so it worked out fine in the end).