How much more of fake GPA scores are floating about in third level student intakes and ongoing programmes?
The school’s administrators concentrated on the self-esteem core values, not intellectual ones, therefore she actually excelled. “Failure is success.”
Modern grading systems are a joke.
George Leef calls it “Grade Inflation”: Grades Just Keep on Inflating; Why Does It Matter? — The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal
In another article, he writes:
…in America today we have a preponderance of Takers over Makers. The Takers consume the taxes paid by the Makers and many of them have jobs that give them power over others since they are paid to enforce the rapidly multiplying number of rules and regulations. Moreover, the Takers exhibit a sense of superiority over the Makers, based on their idea that it is more noble to work for “the public interest” than to work in the morally dubious world of profit-seeking enterprise.
Being awarded high grades without effort fosters an “entitlement” system for the “Taker” mentality to flourish until everything collapses inward…
Makes me think of Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged”.
Rockefellers’
I don’t wan a nation of thinkers.
I want a nation of workers.
The metality is there…
But has morphed…
As the economy is now a rentier economy…
Extraction of wealth; not production of wealth
Platforms monopolies; not industrial competitors
CHINA is a competitor…
AND, as Rockefeller said
“Competition IS A SIN!”
This becomes a problem futher down the road, when those poor kids actually believe they are the greatest thing since sliced bread.
I wished I had taken a picture of an apartment building in my neighborhood, a five story building, with the house number atached at the fifth floor in such small letters one can’t read it from the ground.
I wonder, who did that, what engineer or architect signed off on that.
There are roundabouts in my town, designed to increase flow of traffic, without having to stop at a red light. However, the roundabout is so small, its impossible to merge into traffic and I usually wait longer for a gap, than at a traffic light.
the previous generation is no better and are the people we rely on daily to make the world go round.
Keep your head on a swivel!
I just noticed the name of the poor girl, African (Kikuyu/Kenyan) Origin : In the Kikuyu language, Makena means “the happy one” or “happiness” , reflecting a joyful and positive spirit.
Its all about feelings these days, no substance.
Maybe her GPA was based on the group of students she was slotted into based on the evaluation tests given during her elementary school years. I know after I left elementary school where students of different learning abilities were all in one class, frustrating both for the brighter ones and embarrassing for the slower ones, in junior high everyone was divided into four groups 1 through 4 with 1 designating the brightest ones, with 4 denoting the dullest ones. A kinda human star system I guess.
The class material covered and difficulty was based on the ranking of the students in the class. Students in groups 1and 2 made up the semester honor roll. Those in groups 3 and 4 seldom if ever.
The same sorting continued in high school with less difficult classes but the ranking numbers 1 through 4 added to grade levels was eliminated.