Also lol at the story in the Guardian sidebar there: "'Unhoused' US [Black, with psycho hair] teenager named high school valedictorian: 'All I could ask for'"
He sat at the top of the graduating class with a 3.89 grade-point average and was honored as the group’s valedictorian
Eh. If he actually earned it, good for him. That school has absolutely miserable performance, so a 3.89 was probably his own doing. He's not going to get that many "affirmative action" cheats compared to his peers at a school that's 57% black. The bar is probably low when it comes to grading, but best in the school is still best in the school.
The bar is in the absolute gutter when it comes to grading. Showing up, doing your work, and not making your teacher's life a living hell is worth a point or two of GPA by itself because so many of your peers don't. The nonsense is moving into the colleges as well.
Yeah, where I’m at, universities have mostly scrapped compulsory attendance (even for science), so if you actually do turn up, you’re almost guaranteed better results than those who don’t/for whatever reason can’t, lol…
Attendance isn't mandatory at any university, that I know of, except for the service academies. You can skip every day, if you want, so long as you turn in the required work. All you miss is lectures, and if the class is pure lecture, i.e. no book, well, that can be hard on your grade. I had a class like that, discrete math. No book, all lecture, and it involved doing things like RSA encryption from scratch, by hand.
I made it a point to always skip class at least once a quarter, because after 20 years in the Navy, where I couldn't skip work ever, it was my "duty" to stay home at least one day. :)
Also lol at the story in the Guardian sidebar there: "'Unhoused' US [Black, with psycho hair] teenager named high school valedictorian: 'All I could ask for'"
https://www.theguardian.com/education/article/2024/may/31/unhoused-teenager-named-valedictorian
Fucking clown world indeed.
Eh. If he actually earned it, good for him. That school has absolutely miserable performance, so a 3.89 was probably his own doing. He's not going to get that many "affirmative action" cheats compared to his peers at a school that's 57% black. The bar is probably low when it comes to grading, but best in the school is still best in the school.
https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/louisiana/districts/walter-l-cohen-college-prep/walter-l-cohen-college-prep-148847
The bar is in the absolute gutter when it comes to grading. Showing up, doing your work, and not making your teacher's life a living hell is worth a point or two of GPA by itself because so many of your peers don't. The nonsense is moving into the colleges as well.
Yeah, where I’m at, universities have mostly scrapped compulsory attendance (even for science), so if you actually do turn up, you’re almost guaranteed better results than those who don’t/for whatever reason can’t, lol…
Attendance isn't mandatory at any university, that I know of, except for the service academies. You can skip every day, if you want, so long as you turn in the required work. All you miss is lectures, and if the class is pure lecture, i.e. no book, well, that can be hard on your grade. I had a class like that, discrete math. No book, all lecture, and it involved doing things like RSA encryption from scratch, by hand.
I made it a point to always skip class at least once a quarter, because after 20 years in the Navy, where I couldn't skip work ever, it was my "duty" to stay home at least one day. :)