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It sounds like he deserved a C+ or perhaps a B-, which would have been fair and wouldn't have done any serious damage.
by aheilbut 16y ago
It sounds like he deserved a C+ or perhaps a B-, which would have been fair and wouldn't have done any serious damage.
- mathgladiator 16y agoI don't think history matters, I think what you are going to do matters. Before I gave him the A, I asked myself: How well does he know it? Does he have the tools to know it? I concluded that he would do well if he had confidence in himself, so I gave him the grade I thought would do him best. Now he has a math degree. Students grades as predictors of life is too much pressure and forces an unhealthy fear of failure.