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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: Lane3 who wrote (51215)6/17/2002 1:57:24 PM
From: J. C. Dithers  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
Thanks for posting that. The teacher's worst nightmare ...

that grading becomes subject to court jurisdiction. About the time I retired from professoring, the first stirrings of this new vision of rights were being felt. Until then, it had always been a bedrock principle that courts would never interfere in the grading and evaluation judgments of professional educators. Any student or parent who attempted to bring such a matter to court would be quickly shown the door. The notion that a judge or jury would attempt to second-guess an educator was viewed as preposterous. But then, here or there a court began to entertain that possibility.

Grading is such an inherently subjective matter, that having to prove the justification for every grade to a court of law would be well-nigh impossible. Faced with the possibility of having to defend each and every grade at the risk of being sued, the obvious out for the teacher is to fail no one, and indeed to give all A's. And that is just where we seem to be heading in many of our universities. As I write, J is reading student evaluations from her grad class, and we are chuckling over the egregious misspellings therein. That is just one indication of where education is heading in this brave new world.

The next thing to come will be suing film or book reviewers for uncomplimentary reviews ... unless they can prove the correctness of their reviews to a judge and jury.
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