Inflation To The Consumerization Of The American Grading System

In a world where people are desperate to measure each other in any quantifiable way possible, many students let a single letter define them. In the American grading system, the awarding of an A grade warrants celebration, while receiving a C leads to disappointment. The emphasis on the importance of these grades grows continually throughout the lives of students until they cannot accept anything less than A’s. Pressure leads scholars to either attempt to buy grades or assume higher grades are their birthright. This pressure is sometimes transferred to instructors who are forced to give good grades in order to placate their desperate pupils. As a result of the development of an overly sympathetic grading system, students across the nation are contending with an epidemic of inflated scores.
As the Washington Post states, they “...attribute today’s inflation to the consumerization of higher education. That is, students pay more in tuition, and expect more in return — better service, better facilities and better grades” (Rampell). This expectation is unjustified. Instead of attempting to purchase success, young scholars should insist on getting graded according to their quality of work, thereby receiving useful assessment from knowledgeable teachers. In this way, they could hope to better themselves and fulfilling