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Elea's avatar

You said such a variety of treasures in here, but I'm just stuck on the visual of a dispirited 18 year old sitting in their shitty car with a rejection letter that they paid to get. Driving home the point with a bulldozer, check!

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Sky Fairfield's avatar

Some good points and concepts. I must say, though, you fall into a trap (another one!) that I see a lot of professors fall into: inaccurately believing that grades /do/ not materially impact students' lives just because they /should/ not.

You think of it as Monopoly money--for the students, these arbitrary nonsense numbers literally determine their entire livelihoods. Can they keep their financial aid? Can they graduate? Can they get a good job after school?

Telling them the grades don't matter and are meaningless to /you/ doesn't help /them/ unless the next part of that speech is, "so you'll all get As."

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