Tag: grade inflation

Prof Canned for Being ‘Too Hard’

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PROOF POINTS: New evidence of high school grade inflation ...

Pump up those grades! Ain’t Higher Education grand?

[Thanks to “Ohio Chess Fan” for the nooze tip]

Employers, beware–the college hot-shot you’re thinking of hiring might not have earned those As and Bs. The corners he cut in college will be corners he cuts working for you.

Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia, has fired an economics professor after… um, students complained his class was too hard and he was mean to them and wouldn’t give them the high grades they came to college for, blah-blah (https://www.foxnews.com/media/professor-says-fired-refusing-inflate-grades-totally-against-supposed).

When he refused to inflate his students’ grades, the school did it anyway and then fired the prof. There’s no lawsuit yet, but there could be, soon.

Spelman is a historically black college, the oldest liberal arts school for women in America.

Do you actually have to show up before they give you an A?

We Awl Get A “A’!!!

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Thayre braging Over “at” Yail abuout 80% of “The” stoodints gitting A’s,, butt heer At our Collidge ((Fimbo U.!) we Are dooing beter Than That!!!!

Awl “of” us we Are geting a A in evry singul coarse!!!!!! Now that’s eddicasion!!!!

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So, 80 pursent A’s that Is nuthing!!! Eet yore hart out, Yail!!!!!!

When the Prof Sold A’s

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Somehow I missed this college cautionary tale when it came out.

Back in 2016, the University of Central Florida fired an adjunct professor of psychology for selling–oops! I mean “awarding” students grades of 100 percent on their final papers if they donated $100 to his teaching assistant’s sorority (http://www.orlandosentinel.com/features/education/os-ucf-adjunct-fired-donations-20170116-story.html).

You could also skip a final paper in November if you donated $25.

Does that sound just a little fishy to you? Anyhow, they fired him after a student called the school’s “ethics hotline.” That an ethics hotline should exist sort of implies ongoing problems with ethics. What else is new?

So you’re an employer and you’re looking at an applicant’s resume and it shows these great grades in college… Can you trust it? What if the student simply bought those grades? What if the prof handed them out as a reward for keying a conservative’s car? What if the school allowed students to grade themselves? For all you know, you’d be hiring some kind of pluperfect idiot.

College–making America dumber by the day.