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Poor grades are supposed to be for poor work. What you're talking about is intentionally giving good students bad grades for good work just to piss them off, ho
by hvdijk 5y ago
Poor grades are supposed to be for poor work. What you're talking about is intentionally giving good students bad grades for good work just to piss them off, hoping that something good comes out of pissing them off. That's not what grades are for.
- exhaze 5y agoThis is literally not at all what happened.
- newsyyswen 5y agoCouldn't you make a case that grades should reflect how people will actually be evaluated in their adult lives? I.e. capriciously, arbitrarily, and often based on a random person's mood at some random time?
- youeseh 5y agoYeah, no reason to instill a sense of fairness in students, eh? :P
- vladTheInhaler 5y agoI give your argument a B-. Not for any particular reason. I just felt like it. Was that a good use of your time? Many different groups have mutually conflicting expectations about what grades are supposed to be for. But one thing I think students, teachers, and prospective employers would agree on is that they should be rooted in some measure of performance or ability. Otherwise they serve no socially beneficial purpose at all. What is the point in taking a calculus exam if you'll just get 0/100 because the professor doesn't like your handwriting?
- watwut 5y agoThis way you will produce students that act even more capriciously and arbitrarily toward others.