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Regarding Phyllis Picklesimer’s Feb. 3 letter defending Bush, all I have to say is: Priceless.
“Graduated from Yale with a C average in the days before grade inflation.” Really? Does one have to resort to this to make him look good? I guess so.
Frank Brooks
Greensboro
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...speaking of grade inflation.
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/breaking/story/495210.html
go heels...!
Posted on February 6, 2009 3:17 AM
I'm curious why Obama has not released his Columbia University transcripts.
Posted on February 6, 2009 6:09 AM
Does anyone care, Hugh?
Posted on February 6, 2009 6:29 AM
Wish we could stop the publication of Bush letters...good and bad. He's not in office, neither are Clinton or Carter or Reagan. I would imagine he is at his ranch thinking Thank God I am out of there.
Posted on February 6, 2009 7:30 AM
Great link, rahrah. I think one solution to grade inflation is to weight grades. High schools already do this, e.g. a C in an honors class is mathematically equivalent to a B in a regular course. However, there has been "name inflation" in high school courses as well. When one child briefly attended public schools, I hesitated to enroll her in an honors class--until people told me that "honors" just meant the students weren't on drugs or violent. So I guess the real honors students take AP classes, while the regular students are honors and those who would have dropped out in past generations are the new "normal" students.
I know from experience with friends in academia that there is real pressure to keep that retention rate up, but can't we give the marginal students a C and reserve the B's and especially the A's for truly "going the extra mile" performance? Otherwise we will continue to have "degree inflation" where the job my mother got with a hs diploma now requires an AA, a MS is the new BS, and even a doctorate doesn't mean what it used to mean.
Posted on February 6, 2009 9:30 AM
"I would imagine he is at his ranch thinking Thank God I am out of there. "
Bush & I for a change are on the same page!
Posted on February 6, 2009 10:28 AM
Actually, I'm impressed with his performance at Yale. I wasn't sure he was smart enough to spell "C".
Rimshot, please.
Posted on February 6, 2009 12:34 PM
Before long Bush is going to be viewed as one of our greatest presidents.
Obama is helping to make this happen. It is so obvious he (Obama) has no idea what he is doing.
Posted on February 6, 2009 2:18 PM
BW...what can I say...."Before long Bush is going to be viewed as one of our greatest presidents"...and just when I thought you had some reasonable thoughts.
Posted on February 6, 2009 9:31 PM