Posted on 04/04/2020 9:12:35 AM PDT by Kaslin
Can’t because failing grades will cause the snowflakes to run to a safe room to sub-suffer in their humiliation.
What does an Ivy League education even mean anymore?
Lower affirmative action standards
Everyone gets an “A” or a Pass.
A = C on a real system, A- = F.
The idea was inspired by an English professor at Columbia University, who wrote an oped in the Washington Post, expressing her intention to give all of her students As.
I had one graduate level electrical engineering class like that. Although there was a midterm, the real grade in the class came from an individual project with a presentation of your work. About half way through the presentations the professor said "You are all doing a good job. I think you will all get As." Although I have to admit that those projects were very difficult and I probably spent more time working on that class than I did on any other in grad school.
Why would any legitimate employer give credence to any such studies? I wouldn't care if an applicant made straight A's in "Gender Equality." The course is less than worthless.
It means your family is important enough or rich enough to get you into an Ivy League school so you are someone to be treated well or even worshiped. < /I wish it was sarcasm>
Will the students also end up with a participation trophy, a gold star, a blue ribbon, and a juice box.?
That ship sailed a long time ago. It’s a little like fighting inflation by devaluing the currency to zero. Which does work, I suppose...
Grade inflation at many universities has made As and Bs the only grades handed out anyway.
MI Gov Half Whitmer signed a order that all high school seniors will graduate, even without the last 2 months of school and no final exams.
Yup, even the ones flunking out. Everyone gets a diploma!
As future hires...2020 will be known as...The Class of Dumb@$$.
As with all expensive schools: Parents pay a high price and demand a high grade because they see a high grade as high performance by the school.
Flunk little Johnny and the parents stop paying for the school.
Once upon a time, I taught a graduate course at a leading university with tough exams and tough labs. EVERONE received an A! They all got As because they all deserved them!!!!
This was a highly unusual situation, with highly motivated and talented students. My graduate and postdoctoral assistants and I were also highly motivated in designing and teaching the course.
No faculty member should give out only As, unless that is highly justified! And being a “snowflake” most certainly does not make one deserving of an automatic A!!!
A - F always worked as did the 0 - 4.0.
You knew where you stood at and that never used to hurt anyone’s feelings.. then came liberals, who, like cancer, destroy everything.
I tell my classes that I am prepared to give everyone in the class an A if they are merited. I add that this has never occurred as much as I wish it would.
“Dear Colleges, Please Let Grades Mean Something”
B,Bu..BUT Wadil happen to all those teachers who got those AA kind of degrees?...That’s not Alcohol etc... it’s Affirmative Action ...
(( See FLORI-DUH for examples of this))
Women and minorities hardest hit
“Providing students the options to take courses either pass/fail or for a grade is the best of both worlds. The world is a really scary place right now, and everyone is aware of that fact. No employer or grad school program is likely to hold taking a class pass/fail against a student during a global pandemic. However, for students who wish to earn a letter grade, or who need this semester to boost a GPA, they would have the option.”
The problem is that graduate schools and employers, upon seeing an “A” on a transcript for a course taken this semester, are more likely to wonder if grade inflation occurred than they might under normal circumstances.
I would have no easy way of knowing whether or not a student truly earned an A in a course taken this semester unless I knew that the professor of the course was a tough old bird. Even normally tough professors might go easy on students because they do not feel they were able to teach the course well upon having to suddenly switch to translating it to an online format.
This is why I agree with courses being pass/fail during this period. In order to fail a course during this time period, a student really has to screw up (theoretically anyway).
I fear too many A’s will be given out that are not really deserved, certainly more than the usual amount in non-crisis semesters. There will probably be passes that are not deserved as well. Whether the number of undeserved passes outnumber the number of undeserved A’s and B’s versus “Gentlemen C’s” I do not know.
Our public school district started online school last week, and they’re doing pass/fail, too.
Grades have never meant anything. They are completely arbitrary. Could you design a course or test so easy that everyone would pass? Yes. Could you design a course or test that is so difficult that everyone would fail? Yes.
Grades have always been about sorting out winners from losers and have nothing to do with educating students. This is why they are destructive in a child’s early years. Once a kid is pegged as a failure, it is very difficult for him to climb out of that. Even though John Holt was an old hippie, he did have some interesting insights into education. Book - How Children Fail
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