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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that is on a test that is graded, so students just want to get good grades and not remember the material.
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
would help more students because some students fail a class in high school and that shows up on the students transcript which hurts the student more then it helps them. Farber said that “In any case, though, society is not likely to face the simultaneous abandonment of grading by every school in the country” (387). This means that he thinks that schools won’t be ready for change of the grading scale because it is what the schools are used to being on and it would make some parents ask more questions for why they switched to a different grading system. Farber states that the current grading system doesn’t work and it doesn’t help anyone. Farber thought of a different way to grade people in school which is a credit system. In the credit system there is no failure just credits and it doesn’t show if you did’t get the credit. Faber made some good points to why the grading system we have now doesn’t work like it hurts people when they fail, and people are just trying to get an A on their work and they don’t care for it.
Farber’s article is effective in getting his point across and could change some peoples views on this subject.
that is on a test that is graded, so students just want to get good grades and not remember the material.
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
would help more students because some students fail a class in high school and that shows up on the students transcript which hurts the student more then it helps them. Farber said that “In any case, though, society is not likely to face the simultaneous abandonment of grading by every school in the country” (387). This means that he thinks that schools won’t be ready for change of the grading scale because it is what the schools are used to being on and it would make some parents ask more questions for why they switched to a different grading system. Farber states that the current grading system doesn’t work and it doesn’t help anyone. Farber thought of a different way to grade people in school which is a credit system. In the credit system there is no failure just credits and it doesn’t show if you did’t get the credit. Faber made some good points to why the grading system we have now doesn’t work like it hurts people when they fail, and people are just trying to get an A on their work and they don’t care for it.
Farber’s article is effective in getting his point across and could change some peoples views on this subject.