Posted on 08/18/2011 11:14:19 AM PDT by Nachum
A California college student is conducting a social experiment where he’s trying to get his peers to sign a petition in favor of distributing grade point averages to show how the federal government distributes wealth.
Oliver Darcy, a recent college graduate, proposes that students with good grades contribute their GPA to their academically sluggish friends. He argues that this is how the federal government takes wealth from the country’s high wage earners and distributes it to the low income earners.
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Full title: College Students in Favor of Wealth Distribution Are Asked to Pass Their Grade Points to Other Students
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Love it.
Love it.
Reminds me of a joke.......
A young woman was about to finish her first year of college. Like so
many others her age, she considered herself to be a very liberal Democrat
and was very much in favor of the redistribution of wealth.
She was deeply ashamed that her father was a rather staunch Republican,
feeling she openly expressed. Based on the lectures that she had
participated in, and the occasional chat with a professor, she felt that her
father had for years harbored an evil, selfish desire to keep what he thought should be his.
One day she was challenging her father on his opposition to higher taxes on
the rich and the addition of more government welfare programs. The
self-professed objectivity proclaimed by her professors had to be the truth
and she indicated so to her father. He responded by asking how she was doing
in school.
Taken aback, she answered rather haughtily that she had a 4.0 GPA,
and let him know that it was tough to maintain, insisting that she was taking a very
difficult course load and was constantly studying, which left her no time to go out and party like other people she knew. She didn’t even have time for a boyfriend, and didn’t really have many college friends because she spent all her time studying.
Her father listened and then asked, “How is your friend Audrey doing?”
She replied, “Audrey is barely getting by. All she takes are easy classes,
she never studies, and she barely has a 2.0 GPA She is so popular on campus;
college for her is a blast. She’s always invited to all the parties, and lots of times
she doesn’t even show up for classes because she’s too hung over.”
Her wise father asked his daughter, “Why don’t you go to the Dean’s
office and ask him to deduct a 1.0 off your GPA and give it to your friend
who only has a 2.0. That way you will both have a 3.0 GPA and certainly that
would be a fair and equal distribution of GPA.”
The daughter, visibly shocked by her father’s suggestion, angrily fired
back, “That wouldn’t be fair! I have worked really hard for my grades! I’ve
invested a lot of time, and a lot of hard work! Audrey has done next to
nothing toward her degree. She played while I worked my tail off!”
The father slowly smiled, winked and said gently, “ Welcome to the
Republican party.”
To make it more realistic, a big chunk of the pooled GPA needs to be removed from the redistribution for the cost of overhead. So if there’s enough GPA in the pool for everyone to get a 3.0, they really only get 2.0.
It is called grade norming. Some sharp economics instructor introduced this as a serious plan back in the 80’s.
I pulled it on my kids. They were making A’s at the time.
My little innocent little girl told me “Hell no!, I earned those grades and the idiots don’t deserve anything more than what they earned.”
Brilliant, Responsibility2nd!
educating socialists.
“To make it more realistic, a big chunk of the pooled GPA needs to be removed from the redistribution for the cost of overhead. So if there’s enough GPA in the pool for everyone to get a 3.0, they really only get 2.0.”
I’ve heard of this, only as the professor constructing the experiment, (an unlikely scenario, but this one works).
The prof announces that there will be distribution of wealth in his class. Each student will receive the average of all grades from tests. First test,
6 A’s, 16 B’s, 14 C’s, 3 D’s and 1 F.
Each student gets a 2.5.
Next test,
5 A’s, 10 B’s, 18 C’s, 5 D’s and 2 F’s.
Each student gets a 2.3.
The students begin to realize no matter how hard they work, the bottom will pull them down. By the 5th and final test the distribution is,
1 A, 2 B’s, 4 C’s, 17 D’s and 16 F’s
Each gets a 0.9 and a serious lesson.
Progressively tax those GPAs!!!! It’ll make everyone feel better about themselves!
Those that feel the rich don’t pay their fair share and have the highest grades , should give the most.
Even better, how about those high and mighty perfessors who preach socialism share their wealth with the grad students and teaching assistants. Share with the janitors and the yard crew. They work hard too you know. If they really believe in all this comrade equality, they need to get with the program.
Maybe baraq needs to force one of his alma maters to do this in the name of fairness. See how that goes.
riots in 10 minutes.
My students loved this because the majority were failing. Didn’t get it at all. Except for one student who was quietly horrified.
Yeah, I can see the bright, hard working students understanding the lesson as intended, while the sorry sob affirmative action kids simply see another free lunch and demand with a sense of entitlement that it be made permanent.
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