I always like this scenario. Ask him if socialism is so great, why not also try it in the classroom and see what happens. Try having everyone get an average grade to help those students who can’t achieve as much as the better students.
This way the high achieving students will give part of their score to the lower achieving students...so that the minumum grade will be at least a C. Surely this will be fair because it’s not the students fault he wasn’t born as bright or as ambitious as the better scoring student.
He’ll obviously pass on the challenge. But if he takes you up on it be sure he runs the class to the end of the year like this and he must be sworn to give the student the grade that was given and not earned. So A students really won’t have a chance to get an A...see how well that works out for him.
Let me be clear on this...this is not a curve. But is a system where points are taken from the high achievers and given to the lower underachievers.
So if there are 3 kids in the class and they score as follows (where 70 = C).
Student 1 gets a 100.
Student 2 gets an 80.
Student 3 gets a 50.
Student 3 needs 20 points to achieve a C (70%). So Student 1 has to give up 15 points giving him an 85%. And Student 2 has to give up 5 points giving him a 75%. And Student 3 will have a 70%.
See now isn’t that fair. I wonder what will happen the following week? Will the peer pressure make the weaker kids pick it up or will the better kids just say screw it and let someone carry them in that class while they study harder for a class that rewards them for their efforts?
And this is the point...socialism pulls everyone down while capitalism rewards success and encourages everyone to do better.
Offer a grade of C even if you do not attend the class. See how many hands go up accepting the offer.