Title: A Proposal to abolish grading Category:Literature / English Details: Words: 358 | Pages: 1.5 (approximately 235 words/page)
A Proposal to abolish grading
A Proposal to Abolish Grading
Achieving good grades has been the ultimate and final goal in some students’ academic life. This is a standard method that was set up many years ago supporting a way of ranking students’ knowledge focusing exclusively on a letter or number: their individuality and creativity were not exactly encouraged nor much appreciated along these years in American schools. Furthermore, they were put aside so colleges and universities would be able to judge their candidates. But by doing so, those institutions …showed first 85 words of 358 total…
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…showed last 85 words of 358 total…grade, so they forego a potentially valuable experience. Instead they rely on classes in which they can memorize facts, take the test, get the good grade, and move on, without really learning or retaining anything. In our current system students need very high grades to be accepted to graduate school and eventually to obtain a prestigious job.
I totally agree with this particular argument because students, as well as adults, have become too dependent on using grades as a way of judging intelligence and performance.
