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Re:Would College Students Retain More If Professors Dialed B... by 1337biz on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @02:00PM (#16318534)
What a hero. In my opinion academics often take their role quite a bit too seriously. They are not aware that their role outside of the actually practice related subjects is mostly to be a brain teaser.
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Re:Would College Students Retain More If Professors Dialed B... by astura on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @02:02PM (#16318546)
It's heroic to give someone a passing grade in a college level class when they can't keep up with a college level workload?

I think that its just fraud.

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Re:Would College Students Retain More If Professors Dialed B... by 1337biz on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @06:52AM (#16323812)
A hero for realizing being just another minor data point for most of his students lifes.
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Re:Would College Students Retain More If Professors Dialed B... by lev99 on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @02:08PM (#16318611)
It is sacrificing his academic creditably for the good of his student's gpa.
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Re:Would College Students Retain More If Professors Dialed B... by alexbeloi on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @02:28PM (#16318789)
In a perfect world, neither group would care about either of those things.
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Re:Would College Students Retain More If Professors Dialed B... by lev99 on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @05:15PM (#16320433)
I can see how GPA imperfectly measures a student's knowledge/intelligence. However credibility and honesty should be valued in a perfect world.
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Re:Would College Students Retain More If Professors Dialed B... by heavenlyblue on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @07:19AM (#16323926)
It's not a perfect world.
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