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Re:Tom Robbins on Failure by aheilbut on Sunday January 02, 2011 @03:51AM (#2059768)
It sounds like he deserved a C+ or perhaps a B-, which would have been fair and wouldn't have done any serious damage.
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Re:Tom Robbins on Failure by mathgladiator on Sunday January 02, 2011 @04:01AM (#2059777)
I don't think history matters, I think what you are going to do matters. Before I gave him the A, I asked myself:

How well does he know it?

Does he have the tools to know it?

I concluded that he would do well if he had confidence in himself, so I gave him the grade I thought would do him best. Now he has a math degree.

Students grades as predictors of life is too much pressure and forces an unhealthy fear of failure.

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