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A sneakier thing that some of my professors did was to inflate the lower percentile of grades. So not everyone would get an A, but nobody would get lower than a

• phone8675309 3y ago
  The democratization of the gentleman's C[1] [1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gentleman%27s_C https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gentleman%27s_C
• vanilla_nut 3y ago
  In my experience, administration cares a lot about pass/fail ratios. Much less so about the distribution of passing grades. I've seen situations where administration forced a curve in a difficult class because they weren't willing to face the music when over 50% of a class failed. Mostly because the students and their (helicopter) parents would raise a shitstorm of busywork and a lot of bad press. Of course, sometimes 50% of a class fails because the teaching is shoddy, or the grading is unfair, or the prerequisites weren't properly set or enforced. It isn't always a failure on the part of the students. Failing grades are inherently a failure of the system to prepare and guide a student through material. A common symptom of that systemic failure? Lazy, unmotivated students.
  • mise_en_place 3y ago
    Schooling as an institution is decaying, and there are alternate institutions popping up in the decentralized Network State. Will future employers prefer students who went to woke Harvard, or an autodidact who was homeschooled, utilized an AI tutor (Synthesis), and then went on to the Thiel Fellowship. Time will tell I suppose.