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THROWBACK cross-post from: https://hexbear.net/post/49520
Seriously tho these people can’t be serious, right? Like this has to be a fucking op
My dad once explained to me how communism works and why it fails. A teacher decides that from now on on assignments he is going to add up all of the grades and give the students the average no matter how they did. The kids who did good on the test are upset because they got a bad grade due to the dumb kids who didn’t even try on the test. On the next test they don’t try because they know that it no longer matters and get an even worse grade. Eventually everyone stops trying.
Fucking what.
Isn’t this what grading on a curve is? Like a really shitty explanation for an utterly normal capitalist thing?
No, grading on a curve is kinda more when you assign the grades based on how you did relative to everyone in the class and the actual scores on the test don’t matter.
From where I’m at, growing up under communism would be the real privilege
I got into an argument with someone who was defending the American dream because their parents came here with “nothing” from a poor country and were able to become respected Ivy League professors
Their parents had advanced degrees, for free, from the USSR