This is what happens when you let the inmates run the asylum:
Students at Johns Hopkins University are protesting the school’s
plan to start giving actual letter grades to first-semester students —
claiming that freshmen having to receive letter grades would create a
mental-health crisis on campus far too severe for the school’s resources
to handle.
For decades, Johns Hopkins has concealed students’ first-semester letter
grades — marking their performance in these classes as simply having
been either “satisfactory” or “unsatisfactory” — from potential
employers and graduate schools.
According to an article in the Baltimore Sun, however, the school has
since decided that this policy might be encouraging too many students to
take their first semester less than seriously (um, ya think?!) and that
it therefore plans to change it beginning in 2017.
Now, you might think that giving grades for schoolwork seems like a
reasonable thing for this school to do . . . but many of its students
don’t see it that way. In fact, the Sun reports that more than 20
student groups are protesting the change — arguing that not only would
it cause widespread mental breakdowns, but also that, according to some
groups such as the Black Student Union, it would be particularly unfair
to minority students, because they often “must experience racial
discrimination combined with difficult classes that some of their
previous schools might not have properly prepared them for.”
These are some of the most privileged people
on the planet--and no doubt want to lecture
me about
my so-called privilege. They want and they want. Are there any adults left to counter this craziness?
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