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Do We Need to Abolish Grading?
James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal ^ | October 2, 2024 | George Leef

Posted on 10/07/2024 3:26:21 AM PDT by karpov

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1 posted on 10/07/2024 3:26:21 AM PDT by karpov
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Rubber- stamp all the DEI “students” through graduation
Don’t sweat it. They’ll all get graded when (and if) they ever grow up , face the real world, and (shudders!) get jobs.

Description- please stop doing this craziness in medical school, nursing, engineering, pharmacy, auto shop, anything else which might get the rest of us killed.


2 posted on 10/07/2024 3:32:08 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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A lot of discovery happened because of competition.


3 posted on 10/07/2024 3:33:17 AM PDT by skr (Righteousness exalteth a nation: sin is a reproach to any people. - Proverbs 14:34)
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Utter foolishness.

The author should be mocked and harshly, the article is more about not being held accountable for the failing education system than improving a students performance. The article uses students feelings as a foil to obfuscate the issue of the destruction of meritocracy we obtained through competence and achievement and instead create a feckless mass of inept humanity.


4 posted on 10/07/2024 3:36:10 AM PDT by Skwor
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My thoughts exactly. One of the most important discoveries school kids will make is that life is often times competitive.

Thus it has been from our hunter-gatherer forebears, and always will be.

5 posted on 10/07/2024 3:37:35 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack
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To: Skwor

Exactly!


6 posted on 10/07/2024 3:38:03 AM PDT by brooklin
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To: karpov

that’ll make hiring fun...


7 posted on 10/07/2024 3:41:00 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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China, India, Russia and the rest of the world will keep using grading, now matter how stupid we decide to become. They’ll be our new masters, but what the heck, public school is ‘free’, SO WHO CARES!!!. Right?


8 posted on 10/07/2024 3:42:45 AM PDT by BobL
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This is the dumbest article I have ever read. I give it an F!


9 posted on 10/07/2024 3:48:28 AM PDT by 2nd Amendment
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What about just stop using "A" or "B", etc. Just use a percentage, as in,
"What percentage did you graduate with?".
Student: "I graduated with 65%."
"So you only know 65% of what you were taught?"...
10 posted on 10/07/2024 3:50:06 AM PDT by jeffc (Resident of the free State of Florida)
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Nope, just public education.


11 posted on 10/07/2024 3:52:37 AM PDT by LambSlave
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Grading is a measure of how lazy the student is. It’s gotten so watered down (especially college), that anyone who puts in a tiny bit of effort can get at least a C grade. You have to be a true lazy retard (or a democrat) to get a D or F.

It makes you wonder how Joshua Eyler passed his grades. He is NOT a Professor, he is a Charlatan. /spit


12 posted on 10/07/2024 3:52:51 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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The best way to create a 3rd world country.


13 posted on 10/07/2024 4:04:57 AM PDT by Mlheureux
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The public school system has made a shambles of grading, in partnership with parents who want their kids to be passed without learning.

It’s time for the parents and children who want to succeed to depart the public school, and let real life happen to the rest.


14 posted on 10/07/2024 4:06:43 AM PDT by lurk (u)
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Yup. 👍


15 posted on 10/07/2024 4:10:13 AM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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Idiocracy - since November 4, 2008


16 posted on 10/07/2024 4:21:08 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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Somebody doesn’t like grading papers.


17 posted on 10/07/2024 4:25:11 AM PDT by Dusty Road (")
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Reality bats last…


18 posted on 10/07/2024 4:28:45 AM PDT by IncPen ("Inside of every progressive is a Totalitarian screaming to get out" ~ David Horowitz)
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Abolish merit.

That’s what this idiot is saying.


19 posted on 10/07/2024 4:33:33 AM PDT by fwdude
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These idiots never come up with anything new. Just the same old tired garbage.


20 posted on 10/07/2024 4:34:02 AM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Brandon's pronouns: Xi/Hur)
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