Posted on 08/07/2017 8:48:16 AM PDT by C19fan
I ran into a silly situation when I was getting my masters degree in the 1970s. The prof believed that everyone can and should achieve everything they want to achieve. So, he gave us the course syllabus: what a student had to complete to get an A and what a student had to complete for a B. The A was about ten times more work than the B. The B was about five hours of total effort outside the classroom. I was one of the two students in the class who went for the B. So, yeah, I chose a grade other than an A. <^..^>
FWIW, he was furious that "two of the brightest students" didn't care if we got an A or not. Scary, isn't it? This nonsense started over 40 years ago!
I had a professor do that in one of my college classes, then he gave us our real grade and a lot were close. There were a few way off. But it was an exercise, as you said. It wasn’t to reduce stress and we didn’t get to keep the grade.
IOW......too lazy to grade papers.
Hahahaha..every now and again I can check FR for a good read or a chuckle. This is the latter, of course. Wonder what that annual tuition is... just have to laugh and shake my head at the utter stupidity of it all.
It does snow here and we have fools here too.
Letting students pick their own grades and decide what work they will do is easier than preparing classes and teaching.
Let the Big Dawg Read!
Thanks, nevernevergiveup. I was just laughing at your response@
I like this response best!! I am very stressed by my almost nonexistent bank balance at this time...please, show me the way and how to relieve my stress. Social security just doesn’t hack it anymore. Sigh.
Did you have an override provision in place in case some student chose an unreasonable grade?
This “professor” is a loser lunatic LIB.
BTTT
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