Posted on 04/18/2011 11:27:42 PM PDT by oliverdarcy
Earlier in the week, I posted a video of reactions from students when asking them to sign a petition calling for the redistribution of GPAs.
I thought I would also upload some of the raw, unedited conversations I had with the students and post them here for you guys to see. Enjoy.
Original Video - http://youtu.be/lOyaJ2UI7Ss
Raw Clip 1 - http://youtu.be/vE600I1Js78
Raw Clip 2 - http://youtu.be/dLTh7EI6rzg
Raw Clip 3 - http://youtu.be/1iW5b2li1Yw
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Bravo.
F-ing Brilliant!
of the professors
Given the modern trend of postponing adulthood, I'd say 21 is far too early.
mark
Actually what is going on is equivalent to redistributing GPA. “Minority” students are given preference in admissions and in other ways and then preferences are given when applying for jobs, the government mandates quotas while swearing that it does not happen. How different is that from redistributing GPA?
I couldn’t do it. There were times when I took a lower grade because I knew the teacher would mark my answer to a question wrong even though I knew that in fact I was right. I have taken multiple choice exams in which the correct answer was not listed. In those cases I picked whatever seemed closest to being right even though it may not have been what the teacher wanted. This attitude resulted in my eventually starting a small business of my own, I could never get very far working for someone else. I now work for someone else again but in sales where I am judged by results and not by someone else’s subjective opinion of what I do. The owner of the business is well pleased with my results, the more I sell the more I am paid and we both understand that if I stop selling I won’t have a job and if he starts trying to micromanage me he won’t have an employee.
My dad actually redistributed grades in high school when teaching Animal Farm. Kept two grade books and showed the kids the one with the residtributed grades. He had one class that was so bad the whole class was failing so he made another class that had more grades than they needed help the class with more need than grades. Then the needy class wrote a thank you to the one who gave them grades, my dad suggested the class with extra grades thank them for allowing them to donate their excess grades to such a worthy cause.
What eventually happened was exactly what happened in Atlas Shrugged; the producers stopped producing so there was nothing for the looters to loot.
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