"Students Want Below-Average Grades Abolished, Midterms Replaced with Conversations"

[Ave07]

What is the point of grades below C when a D is the same as an F?

[Theinquisition]

So SJWs are upset that academic standards are getting in the way of spending all day protesting stupid shit


Good, I hope more of them fail. Saves employers the time of sorting through them in the recruiting process

[schwarzkopf]

If you abolish below average grades, then the lowest above average grade BECOMES a below average grade.

Maths 101.

[Darkfriend]

To be fair, the current system is pretty garbage and places more emphasis on memorizing test answers over actually learning. Though this plan doesn't sound better.

This is why I always preferred classes that were either essay based, or essay test based. Because it was far less about memorizing vast amounts of information, and more about understanding the information and being able to explain how it interacts with everything else.

[Taeldorian]

As time goes on, more people seem to forget the original purpose of schools.

I'd agree but the current school systems have you memorizing tests rather than focusing on learning. Obviously memory is a big part of learning but still, it places way too much emphasis on the former rather than the latter. Not that I really care, I do both anyway, I just agree with the notion that memorization shouldn't be what tests are about. I absolutely love essays for this reason. I don't have to rely solely on my memory, I can absorb information as it's given to me in class (or research it myself) and write away.

Either way, I disagree with what the kids are doing. The only word I can find for it is stupid.

[daenerys]

These are they types of people who will end up with 100k worth of student loans, and end up getting constantly fired from job after job because they had something more important to do that day. Sorry kids, but in the real world, your boss won't accept that you can't come in because you got arrested at a protest. If you tell your boss at a real job that you didn't finish the report because you were out late protesting, you won't have to worry about getting a D vs a B as you would in school, you'll just get fired. These kids are in for such a shock after they graduate, assuming they graduate.

[Ave07]

How is a D the same as an F? Maybe in grad school that's true since typically anything less than a C isn't accepted but you can still get credit for a course in undergrad with a D.

You may still get credit with a D but you still don't pass with a D as you need at least a C to pass the class so what's the point?

[Gref]

If you abolish below average grades, then the lowest above average grade BECOMES a below average grade.

Maths 101.

I don't think they can comprehend that. I mean it is the reason we read that article

[THE Bigzoman]

"It is not about creating an intellectual space! It is not! Do you understand that? It's about creating a home here!"

Too late. :P

it's a cult now.

[Stuffs]

Yeah I'd be here along with ya. The current system of standardized tests is kind of "lulz" when taking into account the fact that it's the fucking 21st century.

But you can't just give students a free ride.

I'm wondering what degrees these people are actually getting if it's just about rote memorization. My exams for the most part have required me to understand the content and know how to apply it. If I just google the answers on Chegg I'll be stumped and turn in a blank answer on the exam otherwise.

How is a D the same as an F? Maybe in grad school that's true since typically anything less than a C isn't accepted but you can still get credit for a course in undergrad with a D.

90% of my classes require a C for a prerequisite class. If I received a D, I would retake the class just as if I received an F. I'm only a Junior, it's not a Masters thing.

[PassingBy]

I actually thought this is a troll thread, mocking the "casual" wow asking for raids to be tuned down, and loot being made more accessible.
LOL

[Nekobe140]

Good lord. At least the job market isn't going to have much competition if these morons think the real world will bend over for their sake.

[Zantos]

Colleges are becoming a joke because of the number of idiots they are letting in. This is what happens when you give out acceptance letters in the interest of meeting strict requirements based around "equality" by ensuring a certain number of your students match the color certifications while not necessarily meeting the intelligence requirement fully. If they were more based around letting in those who were Truly qualified and truly tried hard to be there, then they would have more students who take college seriously and less students who want to create a safe space so everyone is a winner and special!

This is why I am seeking alternative ways to learning where possible. Simply because I don't want to be associated with the type of people that are causing change in colleges that are just hindering the institutions and their ability to actually teach.

[Garnier Fructis]

This is why I am seeking alternative ways to learning where possible. Simply because I don't want to be associated with the type of people that are causing change in colleges that are just hindering the institutions and their ability to actually teach.

Do STEM then.

[mvaliz]

You know... I don't believe one of the ways Gatsby became "Great" (and I use that in quotes deliberately because the whole point of the book was he was a sham) involved copy/pasting obscure articles onto an off-topic MMORPG forum and talking about them as if they're some full-scale epidemic.