[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

And who does this serve, giving high grades to quitters? The indulgence of the teacher? It certainly doesn't serve the best interest of the students.

The teacher gives an "A" to the most entertaining submittal. And how is this fair to the students who worked harder and made an honest attempt to perform an extremely difficult task -- subordinating the PERSONAL creative process to the immediate censure and misdirection of a co-writer. Writing is an intensely personal act. Writing with another person requires humility on the part of both persons. Yet the teacher rewarded the arrogant pair of quitters.

Again, who does this serve? How does this advance the interests of the students?

The teacher cheated all other students by rewarding the quitters, merely because the teacher was entertained. I would call on the teacher to keep his guffaws of entertainment privately to himself while he assigns grades using a yard-stick that rewards the skill, perseverence, creativity and hard work of the students.

If I were hiring two employees to work for me, I would rather not hire the two quitters who showed they lacked the perseverence, fortitude, character and resolve to settle their differences and find a way to work with eachother. I would rather have hired two among those who may as well have been tempted to quit but who found a way to complete the assignment.

I am reminded their is a difference between the school and real life, wherin real life you are rewarded based more or less on performance, as viewed through the real filter of workplace politics. But in school, a student's goal is not to master his subject but to please -- indeed, even entertain -- his teacher.

The teacher's giving an "A" to the quitters cheated every other student in that class and I strongly disagree with the teacher's poor judgment.

[William Terrell]

It serves no educational purpose at all. It's not meant to. People reward serendipity. That's just how it is. They always have and they always will. In this case, these youngsters gave us a gift of which laughter is the lesser part.

They searched for a class exercise grade and ended up giving us a stark image of our relationships, black on white, that even the sleepist eye can see.

Correct their mistakes the next exercise; they'll get theirs. This one goes to the Smithsonian.

[Rocky]

The teacher's giving an "A" to the quitters cheated every other student in that class and I strongly disagree with the teacher's poor judgment.

It's a creative writing class. That leaves the door open pretty wide. They aren't solving a mathematical equation, where there's only one right answer. And we don't know what the other submittals looked like. They might have all been dismal.

[philman_36]

But in school, a student's goal is not to master his subject but to please -- indeed, even entertain -- his teacher.
You say this after you said this...
The teacher gives an "A" to the most entertaining submittal.
It seems as if they did what you say they're supposed to do to get a good grade, yet you're not happy with the grade that was given.
You've lost me!