You want straight A’s? Just demand ’em!
[Thanks to “OhioChessFan” for the nooze tip.]
This story’s so insane, I can hardly write a headline for it. My friend OCF at first thought it was one of my parodies.
Well, it ain’t.
Students at The New School, New York, recently showed their support for a part-timers’ strike by “occupying” the campus. When the part-timers got what they wanted… the students then demanded straight A’s for all–even for students who cut most of their classes (https://jonathanturley.org/2022/12/17/a-is-for-audacity-new-school-students-demand-as-for-all-courses-regardless-of-attendance-after-protests/).
They also demanded that all the top brass at the school resign.
Hot dog! “Higher education.” “Ooh, look! I graduated the New School with straight A’s! Can I has a top-paying Job nhow?”
It would be virtually impossible to come up with a more vivid illustration of the profound uselessness of a modern college, er, “education.”
If everyone gets an A, an A loses all meaning.
Ya think?
Well, there’s your truth, and then there’s my truth. 🙂
When I went back to the University of Arkansas for three years of full schedules to earn two degrees in Education I worked my tail off to get all A’s and on B. If you don’t work hard for something it is not that valuable to you.
The New School was founded by Communists and has always been ultra-leftist. So the students who are demanding A’s for everyone have actually learned their leftist lessons well and deserve their A’s. (And by this time I hardly know whether I’m joking or stating a fact.)
It does get hard to do that!