On: Many teachers...grading...for compliance - not for...

[rdtsc]

Interesting. When I was going to school in ex-Soviet Union we did have a 2 grades. A 'behavior' grade and an academics grade. There was a strong correlation between both but not always. I guess one could distill the behavior grades into other sub-categories as well.

[eru → rdtsc]

Former East Germany also used to have grades for behaviour (averaged over all subjects): Ordnung, Mitarbeit, Fleiß und Betragen.

Translated: order/tidyness/organized-ness, participation in lessons, diligence and conduct.

Some people still moan that this system was given up, and there are occasional discussion about re-introducing it.

[aidenn0 → eru]

Maybe it was a good system, maybe it was bad. However, the sentence

"Some people still moan that this system was given up, and there are occasional discussion about re-introducing it." lost all meaning when it was used with regards to the Trabi.

[eru → aidenn0]

The Trabi used to be a pretty good and modern car. In the 1960s.