Consider the following scenario
You spend all night studying for a test and score a 98. The person sitting next to you went out and partied and scored a 42. The professor takes 28 points from you and gives it to him so that you both pass. Meanwhile the person on the other side of you has been diagnosed with test taking anxiety and under the classmates with disabilites act is awarded an additional 20 points so instead of getting a 60 he/she receives an 80. Is this scenario fair or unfair and why?
2007-02-03 01:15:19 · 6 answers · asked by pretender59321 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
I guess I shouldn't be surprised that no liberal has yet come to the defense of their system in the above scenario.
2007-02-03 05:38:49 · update #1
I think it a reasonable analogy. Punitive taxation or grading removes the drive for top-performers to excel. To much of the wrong assistance on the other end removes incentive to improve. Just as in life, it is much easier to simply give a poor student 20 points than it is to find him a tutor or new advisor to help him find a better plan for his future school plans.
I remember in college that the grading curves would be pretty big in certain classes. Sometimes the highest grade would be a 50 with an average of 30. So the 50 would be the A and everything else would be scaled down.
While it didn't happen often to me, I would occassionally "blow the curve" by making a 70 or more. Talk about pressure by other students to find out who did it. The grades would be posted outside the door and you didn't dare point to your high grade with others around. It had a tendency to make you think, oh well, as long as I make a 35 or 40 I'll be ok.
2007-02-03 01:46:51 · answer #1 · answered by bkc99xx 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Very unfair.
Nature works on Survival Of The Fittest,the dumb and the lazy always fail to survive and pass on their genes.
Liberals want those genes passed on,to become liberal voters dependent on Government to survive.
2007-02-03 11:39:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
some teachers already apply a grading curve so that their students' grades look better than they are to the deans. but it is not fair just like taxing the hard working to support the lazy and unemployed
2007-02-03 09:23:37 · answer #3 · answered by JJ 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Bleagh
2007-02-03 09:23:54 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
You have described the essence of neo-liberal "progressivism".
A quick primer, neo-liberal is democratic socilism and when you here the workd progressive it is short for redistribution of wealth.
2007-02-03 09:44:08 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Wow, that's a good analogy. I'm going to have to use that one.
2007-02-03 09:40:59 · answer #6 · answered by I STILL hate hippies 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋