Why Our Grading System is Important Contrary to the belief of Arthur Lean, author of the article “The Farce Called ‘Grading’”, students are “naturally, stupid dolts who must somehow be coerced, cajoled, persuaded, threatened, strong-armed into learning.” Those few however, who are not, can go to college where an honor code is in place, such as New College of USF or Harvey Mudd, and the “farce” called grading will be of no encumbrance to the …showed first 75 words of 395 total…

…showed last 75 words of 395 total…or history of parent-teacher conferences. Arthur Lean is wrong in believing that grades are poor indicators of academic achievement. There is no scenario to support his view that grading is unfavorable to students, except for different professors issuing different grades. However, he failed to mention that “grade curves” in college classes do well to take care of this problem. Also, Lean easily slanders our process of student comparison, but gives no reasonable alternatives to grading.