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

  1. 3dflags usaal1 5
    Alabama Al  almost 2 years ago

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

     •  Reply
  2. Comics 2022
    Skeptical Meg  almost 2 years ago

    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.

     •  Reply
  3. Rick and morty 91d86486 2737 4e8f a1ca 8e1b1ed1070d
    sevaar777  almost 2 years ago

    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.

     •  Reply
  4. 6365f3b8 1150 4fe3 b2ca 7ee9aea79d84
    ATGMer  almost 2 years ago

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

     •  Reply
  5. Missing large
    danielmkimmel  almost 2 years ago

    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.

     •  Reply
  6. Image000000
    MIHorn Premium Member almost 2 years ago

    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.

     •  Reply
  7. Froggy with cat ears
    willie_mctell  almost 2 years ago

    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.

     •  Reply
  8. Louis2
    PoodleGroomer  almost 2 years ago

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

     •  Reply
  9. Anarcho syndicalismvnnb   copy
    gigagrouch  almost 2 years ago

    1.75 outlook on life

     •  Reply
  10. Sixshotprofile
    Decepticomic  almost 2 years ago

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

     •  Reply
  11. Missing large
    smartman  almost 2 years ago

    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%.

     •  Reply
  12. Missing large
    Rich Douglas  almost 2 years ago

    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.

     •  Reply
  13. Wcfields
    Funny_Ha_Ha  almost 2 years ago

    Just give six year olds guns.

     •  Reply
Sign in to comment

More From Tom the Dancing Bug