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Oberlin Students Want Below-Average Grades Abolished, Midterms Replaced with Conversations
Reason Magazine's Hit & Run Blog ^
| May 24, 2016
| Robby Soave
Posted on 05/26/2016 9:19:38 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I say eliminate college. Everybody is equal.
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posted on
05/26/2016 9:21:49 AM PDT
by
DIRTYSECRET
(urope. Why do they put up with this.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
"...A lot of us worked alongside community members in Cleveland who were protesting. But we needed to organize on campus as wellit wasnt sustainable to keep driving forty minutes away. A lot of us started suffering academically..." Speechless.
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posted on
05/26/2016 9:23:08 AM PDT
by
rlmorel
("Irrational violence against muslims" is a myth, but "Irrational violence against non-muslims" isn't)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
05/26/2016 9:23:36 AM PDT
by
wastedyears
(I'm actually going back to school. I kinda don't believe it.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Everybody gets a trophy diploma!
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posted on
05/26/2016 9:24:43 AM PDT
by
slumber1
(Islam delenda est)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Why not just hand over your student loan checks and the university hands over your diploma?
That’s pretty much what they’re doing anyway.
The important thing is that the universities get to harvest all the student loan money they can before they bury themselves in debt elsewhere.
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posted on
05/26/2016 9:24:57 AM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("During a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act" --George Orwell)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
well Oberlin was the first college to accept female students so they want to remain THE progressive institution...
and basket weaving should have a pass fail grade..
and A for showing up etc
and A+ for writing a name any name on a test paper...
To: 2ndDivisionVet
In a perfect world, they would receive a loud ‘no’ and then get a good slap and a push out the door.
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posted on
05/26/2016 9:27:57 AM PDT
by
LostInBayport
(When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
To: rlmorel
“...A lot of us worked alongside community members in Cleveland who were protesting. But we needed to organize on campus as wellit wasnt sustainable to keep driving forty minutes away. A lot of us started suffering academically...”
Are you sure this wasn’t the script from a Saturday Night Live skit?
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posted on
05/26/2016 9:30:59 AM PDT
by
LydiaLong
To: 2ndDivisionVet
To be fair grades above average should be eliminated too. Try getting into a good grad school with a 2.0.
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posted on
05/26/2016 9:31:25 AM PDT
by
Mike Darancette
(The most vocal supporters of a good con man are the victims.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
” Im going home, back to the hood of Chicago, to be exactly who I was before I came to Oberlin. “
Except for that pesky $50,000 college loan balance.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
'I literally am so tired of learning about Marx, when he did not include race in his discussion of the market!' Karl Marx isn't LEFT enough for them!
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posted on
05/26/2016 9:37:11 AM PDT
by
Mr. Mojo
To: Tennessee Nana
“and A+ for writing a name any name on a test paper:’’-—
Not in cursive,though. I’m sure that would be considered discriminatory.
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posted on
05/26/2016 9:38:17 AM PDT
by
Mears
To: 2ndDivisionVet
“...a number of exhausted activists at Oberlin. They perceive that other students, faculty members, and the administration are completely against them, and have made it impossible for them to live on campus. Some are dropping out.”
Good! At least the system is working somewhere.
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posted on
05/26/2016 9:42:05 AM PDT
by
BlueStateRightist
(Government is best which governs least.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Sounds to me the next crop of welfare recipients will be college educated.
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posted on
05/26/2016 9:42:15 AM PDT
by
556x45
To: DIRTYSECRET
After the four years of hell that's called college,these poor snowflakes will retire to their parents basements.Too traumatized to face the world again.
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posted on
05/26/2016 9:46:51 AM PDT
by
Farmer Dean
(Never be more than two steps away from your weapon.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
A resume with an Oberlin degree is automatically round-filed.
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posted on
05/26/2016 9:48:03 AM PDT
by
sevlex
To: 2ndDivisionVet
If you abolish below average grades, don’t you by definition also abolish above average grades?
To: rhoda_penmark
Naw, she’s not white so she got a grant instead of a loan. Nothing to pay back, thanks to you and me and our tax dollars. Those tax dollars went down the drain and she’s going back to some Chicago ghetto exactly the same as she left. Just like Obama, she didn’t learn anything in school or through her activism.
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posted on
05/26/2016 9:52:10 AM PDT
by
bgill
(CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I predict that resumes from Oberlin grads will start going straight to the round file.
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posted on
05/26/2016 9:55:13 AM PDT
by
Trod Upon
(To be labelled "far-right" by modern journalists, one need do no more than NOT be far-left.)
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