The Times has an article about kids who believe they should be graded on how hard they try instead of what they actually produce in class. By this logic brain surgeons who left sponges in patients skulls shouldn’t be sued because they tried really hard. Or hedge fund managers who lost billions of dollars shouldn’t be prosecuted because, really, they were trying so hard. Or a president who left his country in ruin, but believes his legacy should be how hard he tried to do good.
No.
No, motherfucker.
I’ve been trying for years and years to get into the panties of Winona Ryder, and don’t even get me started on how hard, because all I wound up with is a hefty tab for hand lotion and some embarrassing-to-explain callouses. The moral of the story is it doesn’t matter how hard you try, it matters whether you fucking do it.
Sure, everyone told you how wonderful your macaroni-and-glitter mother’s day day card was in kindergarten, but now you’re in college. You can’t expect to graduate Summa cum Laude as a pat on the head for showing up.
I quote Jason Greenwood of the University of Maryland:
“If you put in all the effort you have and get a C, what is the point?” he added. “If someone goes to every class and reads every chapter in the book and does everything the teacher asks of them and more, then they should be getting an A like their effort deserves. If your maximum effort can only be average in a teacher’s mind, then something is wrong.”
Yeah, bro. It’s you.
Jason, bee-tee-dubs, majors in “kinesiology” which seems to be the fancy-ass name for Phys Ed. Come on, fucknuts, you don’t win a race by huffing and puffing as hard as you can. You win it by going faster. There comes a time when you gotta face the fact that you’re just too fucking slow. Maybe glorified phys ed just isn’t for you. How about regular phys ed? Or philosophy? Do you know how hard it is to fuck up at philosophy?
I, for one, applaud our nation’s hard-grading professors. Fuck the bastards. Let them try really hard to sell me a fucking off-brand polo shirt at Target. Let them try really hard to wash my windshield at the stoplight. Let their effort deserve a sixteen-percent tip at Waffle House. Keep them out of the professions that require care, craftsmanship, skill and accuracy. It’s for the good of mankind.
Here here!
THIS.
Where did these fucktards come from? Attempt /= accomplishment.
Wow.. I would just LOVE to smack that kid.. See, this is what the baby boomer parents did.. They coddled the hell out of their kids and the whole “It doesnt matter who wins, its how you play the game” bullshit is just turning the world in to gimme gimmes and there are NO balls…
I can only hope that when my generation’s kids grow up they will have more balls.. I know my kids will have some balls… (p.s. i’m 26)
Cue Jeremy Piven: “Okay, you’re out of my room.
Seriously. Get out.”
My mother, teaching 2nd grade in California, was recently asked NOT to grade papers with a red pen, because “the children will associate the color red with failure, and all they see when they look at their homework is their own failure.”
If little Timmy is in the 2nd grade and he can’t spell CAT, then he IS a failure. A big, scarlet failure.
Darlink, Kinseology is a SCIENCE course. These twats who are complaining aren’t Liberal Arts, rather applied science. Boo Hoo. If they want to get A for reading texts, they should transfer to Liberal Arts, because there that is EXACTLY what is required.
I can’t imagine what these kids are complaining about. Besides, the effort it takes you to get an A in most American universites would only count for about a C+, b- MAYBE in my school.
I’m going to read this post every single day for the rest of my life.
GREAT POST! Last fall posted about a LA high school teacher and the “trophy day” attitude killing America. You can read it here http://bobphibbs.wordpress.com/2008/10/13/trophy-day-recession-whats-wrong-america/ What the (*(*%$ are these kids going to do in the real world with this atttude? And where did they get it? From well-meaning intentions from adults.
If someone deserves to fail, they should fail. No question, the quality of the work should be the deciding factor in the grades.
I wonder, though, if the guy quoted in the article wasn’t talking about profs who have a sort of ‘grade ceiling.’ When I was in school, some classes were notorious for profs never giving out marks above a B, maybe a B+. Nobody ever got an A in these classes. Now, some people are hard to please, and maybe a truly stellar essay doesn’t come along all that often, but the problem would come when someone would ask what they could do better and there would be no answer. Other profs would give the same paper an A, but some would give it a full letter less and have no suggestions for improvement. In a school where people are competitive about GPA, something like this can make a huge difference when vying for position in Law or a Grad program, and it all comes down to which prof you had, not what kind of work you produced. A superior student might get shut out by someone who had the luxury of transferring into the easy courses, because one of them gets a higher GPA.
That said, whiners and complainers who don’t do good work and just can’t stomach the news that they’re failures, well, we don’t need them. It’s sink or swim. Catering to the weakest and least capable isn’t going to help anyone.
For the love of all that is holy in public AND private education - where has this blog been all my life. You entitled, coddled motherfucking Futures of our Nation…Do me a favor - ask your future boss at Walmart to give you partial credit for setting-up an end cap display of toothpaste.
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