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ImWithStupid

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This whole nobody keeps score, everyone gets a trophy, nobody wins and nobody loses mentality is what breeds this ****...

Student Expectations Seen as Causing Grade Disputes

By MAX ROOSEVELT

Published: February 17, 2009

Prof. Marshall Grossman has come to expect complaints whenever he returns graded papers in his English classes at the University of Maryland.

?Many students come in with the conviction that they?ve worked hard and deserve a higher mark,? Professor Grossman said. ?Some assert that they have never gotten a grade as low as this before.?

He attributes those complaints to his students? sense of entitlement.

?I tell my classes that if they just do what they are supposed to do and meet the standard requirements, that they will earn a C,? he said. ?That is the default grade. They see the default grade as an A.?

A recent study by researchers at the University of California, Irvine, found that a third of students surveyed said that they expected B?s just for attending lectures, and 40 percent said they deserved a B for completing the required reading.

?I noticed an increased sense of entitlement in my students and wanted to discover what was causing it,? said Ellen Greenberger, the lead author of the study, called ?Self-Entitled College Students: Contributions of Personality, Parenting, and Motivational Factors,? which appeared last year in The Journal of Youth and Adolescence.
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RoyalOrleans

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No. I blame the soccer mom mentality where nobody wins and nobody loses.
Competition is good. Ask Darwin.
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Fukken aye!

The Germanic barbarians sacked and razed Rome to the ground, our mediocrity stiving, limp wristed weak hearted future will be our unmaking.

 
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