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This isn’t about deprioritizing excellence. Agreed, it's about giving fifty percent reward for zero percent effort. I think HN readers remember perhaps better
by causality0 4y ago
This isn’t about deprioritizing excellence.
Agreed, it's about giving fifty percent reward for zero percent effort.
I think HN readers remember perhaps better than most how much the "peanut gallery" in the back of the class interfered with our ability to learn. I find the idea those assholes are going to get at least half credit for doing nothing absutely repugnant.
- UncleMeat 4y agoWho is getting reward for no effort? Literally nothing about the selection for the scholarship changed.
- causality0 4y agothe school district’s new strategy of “equal outcomes for every student, without exception.” School administrators, for instance, have implemented an “equitable grading” policy that eliminates zeros, gives students a grade of 50 percent just for showing up, and assigns a cryptic code of “NTI” for assignments not turned in. It’s a race to the bottom.