Posted on 08/17/2011 5:49:41 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A California college student is conducting a social experiment where he’s trying to get his peers to sign a petition in favor of distributing grade point averages to show how the federal government distributes wealth.
Oliver Darcy, a recent college graduate, proposes that students with good grades contribute their GPA to their academically sluggish friends. He argues that this is how the federal government takes wealth from the country’s high wage earners and distributes it to the low income earners.
“They all earn their GPA,” said Darcy in an interview with "Fox and Friends." “So we asked them if they’d be interested in redistributing the GPA points that they earned to students who may be having trouble getting a high GPA.”
Darcy, who films his encounters with teachers and fellow students, doesn’t have much luck selling this theory. He said many students on college campuses support high taxes on the rich, but when put into relative terms, cringed at the thought of spreading around their academic wealth.
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The grade distribution angle is the exact same one I use in describing how wealth redistribution works. And to a person, the result is the same: a resounding “Hell no”!
>> He said many students on college campuses support high taxes on the rich, but when put into relative terms, cringed at the thought of spreading around their academic wealth.
Spoiled, ignorant teatists!
Reality—what reality?
Leftist brainwashing at it’s finest overrides reality.
An excellent educational stratagem.
Nothing dumber than a college student. Too many hormones and not enough life experience.
Socialsim is great until it hits home isn’t it?
“...proposes that students with good grades
contribute their GPA to their academically sluggish friends...”
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A better experiment would be to go to the “academically sluggish” and see how they feel about grabbing some GPA
from the students with good grades!
It’s easy to spread around that which you do not have, yet.
When one earns something, like grades, seems these students want to keep the fruits of their labor
cool!
But do they comprehend the hypocrisy of their position? I doubt it. Cognitive dissonance in action.
Colleges and high schools have done this for years by giving a grade to a team of students working on a project.
This is an emial story from 10 years ago
I saw it on Fox yesterday.
Awesome! Hypocrisy on display!
THIS is a great idea! A perfect demonstration of the spread of the ‘entitlement mentality’ in the US.
Would love to see it...
Even better: Let the University bestow the same GPA upon all students regardless of merit, and make it legally binding.
Exactly.
To wit, I have been saying the same thing for over 25 years:
Liberals are in complete favor of the progressive agenda until it affects them personally. And when it does, they become conservatives in the blink of an eye. They are no different than politicians and pimps. Bunch of douche bags!
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