Obsession with Grades
If there is one thing education has managed to achieve , it is to ingrain the feeling of competition early on.
The race to score A’s is uniform everywhere.
Funnily enough, if a lot of people get A’s, it is not considered a success of the students but rather a failure of the system.
The system is accused of inflating grades and accepting poor standards.
We love to see ourselves better than others and hence we love ranks. A system with high number of A’s deprives us of this privilege.
We use grades as a mechanism to announce who’s beating whom.
In this opinion piece for The New York Times, Alfie Kohn argues that this obsession with grades misguides our schools.
A school’s ultimate mission, apparently, is not to help everyone learn but to rig the game so that there will always be losers.
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Why Can’t Everyone Get A’s?
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