Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for January 06, 2023

The problem is everyone thinks they are from Lake Woebegon, so “artificially” lowering grades will be seen as “unfair” or even a worst attribute.

Grade inflation is how the school keeps the parents happy. Future employers… maybe not so much. And they’ll hopefully start responding by rejecting Harvard (among other) graduates.

Here I thought Bolling was using allegory to highlight how the current economic “controls” in America require the peons to suffer for the benefit of the wealthy.

Graduation occurs when the minimum financial contribution had been met to sustain the institution.

I remember this debate when I was a student in the ’70s and some professors “graded on a curve” to fight so-called grade inflation. I was doing a humor column for the campus magazine and my response was a proposal that professors be paid on a curve.

When I taught classroom college classes, I never graded on a curve. And a point was a point. If you did okay on tests but didn’t turn in assignments, your grade suffered. Students hated it, and gave me bad comments on evaluations (which profs can’t respond to for context). So now I just do studio lessons and I’m much happier.

I graduated from high school in 1963 with a 3.0 GPA. I was 19th out of 180 in my class. I would have done better if I had actually studied. Something has changed in the interim.

They could use independent certification testing except everyone has already bought the answers.

1.75 outlook on life

His son’s at Yale and would also make an excellent future judge for the supreme court. Apparently, he likes beer. And date-ra—

Wow, so many people missed the point of this exceptional cartoon. This is attacking the Fed for raising interest rates when the actual problem is corporate price gouging that is being called inflation. Raising interest rates is going to do nothing to stop that while harming the bottom 90%.

When I did my second doctorate there were only two grades: Pass and With Distinction. Only about 10% of students received With Distinction in any course. Everyone else received Pass (or the occasional Don’t Pass, which required a re-do of the assignment). Grades just weren’t an issue.

When I did my first doctorate, there were no grades at all. (No credit hours either.) Your transcript had what you did and that was it.

As a corporate trainer for 40 years, I had the distinct pleasure of never issuing a grade. As an adjunct professor, it (grading) was the worst aspect of the work.

Point: grades don’t matter and they’re basically pointless anyway.

Just give six year olds guns.