We can only stop grade inflation if we do something that the denizens of reason dot com would not like: make public college free. The logic in the rise of grade

We can only stop grade inflation if we do something that the denizens of reason dot com would not like: make public college free. The logic in the rise of grade inflation is very simple: students (or their parents) pay a fortune for a degree and they want something for it, no matter their performance. Only the most flagrant burnouts get failed out of college today because if we restored grading to a normal distribution people would stop sending their kids to college at the same rate, and colleges would lose tuition revenue.