Students Demand College Abolishes Grades Below “C” Because It Hurts Their Self-Esteem
Students at Oberlin College are fed up with the oppressive, self esteem-corroding policies their superiors continue to thrust upon them — namely, handing out grades below a “C” and denying them a spoken alternative to written midterms.
From Reason:
Oberlin College’s activist community is ready to call it quits. Progressive students are dropping out of college, citing academic and emotional difficulties stemming from their mental health problems and overall disgust with the toxic culture on campus.
That’s according to a fascinating piece for The New Yorker by Nathan Heller, who interviewed a number of exhausted activists at Oberlin. They perceive that other students, faculty members, and the administration are completely against them, and have made it impossible for them to live on campus. Some are dropping out.
Of course, some of these students probably feel unsupported because their impractical demands were not realized. Two examples: activist students not only wanted to abolish all grades below a ‘C,’ they also thought faculty members should proactively offer them alternatives to taking a written, in-class midterm exam.
I agree 100 percent. Every time a teacher handed me a below average grade, it made me so upset I couldn’t even. I. Couldn’t. Even. I would just run back to my dorm room, throw the sheets over my head, and blast Simple Plan at max volume so no one could hear me scream.
Honestly, who do these out-of-touch “educators” think they are? What gives them the right to teach me stuff and then quiz me to see how well I’m learning the material? That’s not what college is about. College is about my experience. It’s about my growth as a global citizen.
Here’s my list of DEMANDS to reform the oppressive grading system.
A = Fire emoji
B = Smiley face emoji (eyes closed)
C = Smiley face emoji (eyes open)
Anything below a smiley face emoji (eyes open) and the teacher will be punished, not the student.
I’ll be in my safe space starving myself until these DEMANDS are met. If I die, the blood is on your hands, Oberlin..
[via Reason]
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What a fucking loser
8 years ago at 5:56 pmNo There just Dumb Fucks
8 years ago at 6:00 pm*they’re. I would give you a D for effort but that might offend you.
8 years ago at 6:08 pmThey’re* you dumb fuck
8 years ago at 6:08 pmYeah Bob, we got it.
8 years ago at 6:29 pmCena and I posted this at the same time, he wins this battle, but I’m also getting my dick sucked by a plinko model right now, so I can’t be too mad.
8 years ago at 6:46 pmFatal mistake going against the champ. I’m currently give a Bella twin the ol’ 5 knuckle shuffle.
8 years ago at 7:40 pmim sure u are bob
8 years ago at 7:56 pmNot everyone could get as good grades as me
8 years ago at 6:00 pmNever saw a C in my life. My and most of my chapter could teach your TAs.
8 years ago at 5:27 pmyou pussies. take it like a man. that’s all I have.
8 years ago at 6:04 pmChina is collectively shaking their heads at us for bullshit like this. What a bunch of pathetic pussies.
8 years ago at 6:08 pmIn 2060 stories like this will be taught in Chinese schools as a case study in order to understand the fall of the west.
8 years ago at 7:54 pmSadly there’s a chance you’re right. This kind of behavior and pussification can’t go on forever without something major happening. People aren’t going to keep putting up with this pussy shit.
8 years ago at 8:41 pm“It says here on your resume that graduated from a school that doesn’t hand out anything below a C….We’ve decided to go a different direction in our employee search. Thanks for applying”
8 years ago at 6:10 pmThis scenario assumes these people would even apply to a job
8 years ago at 6:56 pm“This is an oppressive and elitist and ableist hiring system. Boycott (name of company here) !
8 years ago at 7:03 pmThere are A LOT of issues with the filtering in hiring systems these days. Automatically disqualifying people who went to a college that didn’t hand out grades below Cs would not be one of them. I hope for the sake of students who actually try this school doesn’t consider this.
8 years ago at 8:38 pmThey are also asking for free tampons once a month
8 years ago at 2:26 amThis movement’s leader sounds like a complete jackass
8 years ago at 6:11 pmThe movie idiocracy is becoming more and more true every year.
8 years ago at 6:13 pmWe lost the comments section on the clothing lines they shove down our throats. Hats off to dorno for having a clit the size of my thumb
8 years ago at 6:23 pmSeems like this whole PC movement will eventually be a huge joke to everyone. I feel like it’s almost there
8 years ago at 6:27 pmTo most sane people it’s already a joke.
8 years ago at 7:05 pmBut we just don’t care. We need their …enthusiasm(?)… to boil over and cause them to turn on each other.
8 years ago at 7:15 pm