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Oregon university drops failing grades for students, citing 'GPA fixation'
Fox News ^ | January 31, 2024 | Nikolas Lanum

Posted on 01/31/2024 1:31:15 PM PST by george76

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1 posted on 01/31/2024 1:31:15 PM PST by george76
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Pubelic Edumacaytion’s main job is to employ leftist bureaucrats.

everything else is secondary


2 posted on 01/31/2024 1:33:16 PM PST by PGR88
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If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s got a worthless Oregon Ducks degree.


3 posted on 01/31/2024 1:34:15 PM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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Won’t be long before the delusional people who run Leftist institutions like this will be awarding “participation grades” resulting in “participation diplomas” to students who just can’t cut it in a normal college curriculum.


4 posted on 01/31/2024 1:34:55 PM PST by glennaro (Never give up ... never give in ... never surrender ... and enjoy every minute of doing so.)
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No standards


5 posted on 01/31/2024 1:35:03 PM PST by ActresponsiblyinVA
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If they get 'no grade' they can take the course again and not negatively impact their GPA.

And if this encourages more students to stick around for another semester or two, that positively affects WOU's bottom line with increased tuition revenue.

6 posted on 01/31/2024 1:35:37 PM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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It’s pretty simple, then. I wouldn’t even consider hiring a graduate from there. Circular file.


7 posted on 01/31/2024 1:36:02 PM PST by Gaffer
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Another failed libtard college with ignorant students


8 posted on 01/31/2024 1:37:00 PM PST by NWFree (Sigma male đŸ€Ș)
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To: PGR88

Carlin said it best,

They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. Thats against their interests. Thats right. They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table to figure out how badly they’re getting f____ by a system that threw them overboard 30 f_____ years ago. They don’t want that.

You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers. People who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork, and just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly sh____er jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and the vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it, and now they’re coming for your Social Security money. They want your retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street, and you know something? They’ll get it. They’ll get it all from you, sooner or later, ‘cause they own this f______ place. It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it.


9 posted on 01/31/2024 1:37:33 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Oregon high school students do not have to prove basic mastery of reading, writing or math to graduate from high school, either ..

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4191329/posts


10 posted on 01/31/2024 1:37:35 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: PGR88
Inflation Inflation Inflation
11 posted on 01/31/2024 1:38:50 PM PST by DeFault User
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So now, instead of degrees they will hand out participation trophies.


12 posted on 01/31/2024 1:39:40 PM PST by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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Is there at least a time limit on how long you can park your carcass at good old Western OregonU?


13 posted on 01/31/2024 1:41:41 PM PST by Reily (!!)
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“I don’t have a pilot certificate sir.”

No problem. Just sit in the Captain’s seat. The computer flies the thing anyway.”


14 posted on 01/31/2024 1:42:23 PM PST by Signalman
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Just a scam to attract stoodnts

Everyone goes to OSU or OU, nobody goes to WOU

Now they can attract some bad students with $$$


15 posted on 01/31/2024 1:43:13 PM PST by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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In further news from the university, players on the varsity baseball team who make an out when up to bat will no longer have those plate appearances counted as ‘at-bats’, as those have been found to negatively affect their batting averages.


16 posted on 01/31/2024 1:45:02 PM PST by Stosh
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If you read the article with a mindset of preserving university revenues, it make more sense than the smokescreen of what an F really means. Also, this says that their faculty are not able to discriminate on the basis of performance. It seems that the University's moto should be changed to:

If you can fog a mirror, you can get your degree from WOU.

17 posted on 01/31/2024 1:45:06 PM PST by econjack
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Does GPA Fixation = Restorative Justice?


18 posted on 01/31/2024 1:48:58 PM PST by No Party Affiliation
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Talk about failing upward!

Will fail become the new “f-word”?


19 posted on 01/31/2024 1:50:05 PM PST by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try)
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GPA fixation = “success fixation”.


20 posted on 01/31/2024 1:51:41 PM PST by cuban leaf (2024 is going to be one for the history books, like 1939. And 2025 will be more so, like 1940-1945.)
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