I would suggest that the practice is cruel. The goal of bad grades, like bad medical test readings, is to alert the student and their parents to a problem that needs to be addressed. The American public has deluded themselves into thinking that they can drop their little cherubs off at school and a miracle will occur - an educated adult will come out the end of the pipeline without effort on the part of parent or student. The inconvenient truth is that parents, teachers, administrators, and students all need to be fully committed and engaged for the educational process to succeed.
The sad part is, given global competition, such a deceptive practice insures that the product of such an education will be ill-prepared to succeed in a competitive world. Can't you just see the unprepared, clueless dupes - spending a lifetime working in fast food or basic retail, struggling to make ends meet, wondering why life sucks, and looking for someone to blame - and a bailout? A really sad result, given record educational spending by taxpayers.
” Mr. Haskvitz gets it. Grade inflation is just like tampering with your cholesterol score or blood pressure reading. You give the recipient/patient a false sense of euphoria while masking a problem with long term consequences.”
My kids are both college grads, and I told both of them that 90% of what they learned they will not use in their careers unless it’s highly technical, but the 100% they will use is their ability to get info, assess it, and make a decision balancing consequences.
Happy to let you know that why they both voted against Barry, as they saw through his lip service.