Jerry Farber Grading System
Assignment 2 I had no social life because of school and how they always had boring work to do had to be done by Monday. The grading system that is suggested by Jerry Farber is a credit system. His system would make it so that it won’t be a pass fail system and would help out everyone. Jerry Farber wrote an article called “A Young Person’s Guide to the Grading System". The main point of Farber’s paper is that the current grading scale doesn’t work and he wants to change the scale to a credit system which he had created by himself and makes sense. People only go to school to get the grade in the classes that they are in and it is not fun for the student when it doesn’t apply to them. Farber means that people only pay attention to something
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The grading system doesn’t get the job done anymore. People should get experience doing what they want to do instead of for a grade and not just busy work. Farber said, “Who reads his textbook after the grades are in”(385). Most people don’t read the textbook after the grades are in because they just want to get good grades to move on to the next topic that they don’t care for. He said, “Do you think you’re a lazy student? No wonder! Slaves are almost always lazy”(386). What Farber means is that students now are more like slaves because they have more work to do and it doesn’t interest them at all and that is how slaves were treated. Another point Farber suggested is, “the Credit system” where that everyone gets credit for taking the class and reaching the minimum credits (387). This would make more people enjoy learning because the student would be able to take what they like and want to go into as a profession for the rest of their life. Farber implies that every class that the student take class and all have the same credit for their graduation and that if someone was to fail a class it wouldn’t show up on their transcript and wouldn’t count against them (387). That
The grading system doesn’t get the job done anymore. People should get experience doing what they want to do instead of for a grade and not just busy work. Farber said, “Who reads his textbook after the grades are in”(385). Most people don’t read the textbook after the grades are in because they just want to get good grades to move on to the next topic that they don’t care for. He said, “Do you think you’re a lazy student? No wonder! Slaves are almost always lazy”(386). What Farber means is that students now are more like slaves because they have more work to do and it doesn’t interest them at all and that is how slaves were treated. Another point Farber suggested is, “the Credit system” where that everyone gets credit for taking the class and reaching the minimum credits (387). This would make more people enjoy learning because the student would be able to take what they like and want to go into as a profession for the rest of their life. Farber implies that every class that the student take class and all have the same credit for their graduation and that if someone was to fail a class it wouldn’t show up on their transcript and wouldn’t count against them (387). That