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Can you elaborate on that? Do people brazenly purchase grades? At my university, I have to fight damn hard for an A.
by SapphireSun 18y ago
Can you elaborate on that? Do people brazenly purchase grades? At my university, I have to fight damn hard for an A.
- jballanc 18y agoEconomics involves more than just the exchange of money... For example: Student X, a member of the sports team (any sport will do), has been missing classes, not paying attention to the material, and doing poorly on the assignments. Then, X sleeps through the big exam. X comes to me, saying that (s)he should still be allowed to take the exam. I send X to the dean, and not more than 15 min later receive a phone call from the dean: "Couldn't we just let X take the test?" Me: "X is a poor student, has shown no remorse for missing the exam, and by all right should fail..." Dean: "Yes, but couldn't we let X take the exam?" True story...X did get to take the exam, and got a C in the course. The school has sold X a grade in exchange for X playing on the team, which brings revenue in to the school. Even when X isn't an athlete, the school is exchanging tuition revenue for grades. ...it's a shame, but people were really sweating last time the accreditation board did their once-in-a-blue-moon review. All the higher-ups wanted to skate a thin line between remaining accredited and still allowing as many students to get by with Bs and Cs as possible.