> Any measure less severe than an F is too much coddling in your book? Is your perspective that suicide rates are high because kids aren't getting enough failin

> Any measure less severe than an F is too much coddling in your book? Is your perspective that suicide rates are high because kids aren't getting enough failing grades due to typos? You're twisting my words, and I didn't say any of that. My point was that if it's "better suited to previous generations than today's," it's probably due to today's generation being over-protected to the point were they can't handle a failing grade on a paper. Avoiding that kind of thing more will just make them even less capable of handling it. And honestly thinking about it a bit more, "failing grades due to typos" may actually be a fairly ego-preserving way to get a kid exposure to the experience that an F isn't the end of the world, and they can recover from it. That kind of grade couldn't reasonably be interpreted as the kid being judged incapable of good work.