Give a grade of A to everyone, attendance should have no bearing on grade
Students are occupying a campus building and have a list of demands. They want every student to receive an A for the course. They are calling for the removal of incomplete and withdrawal grades for Fall 2022 semester. The students also want the university president and others to resign, and for the university president’s house to become communal property.
From Fox News:
Though the faculty strike has since been resolved, a letter of demands now calls for A grades for all students. It says in part: “We demand that every student receives a final course grade of A as well as the removal of I/Z grades for the Fall 2022 semester.” The letter insisted, “Attendance shall have no bearing on course grade.” (According to the New School’s website, an “I” grade is a “temporary incomplete” and a “z” grade is an “unofficial withdrawal.”)
The letter also states that occupying students demand a refund “for the loss of instructional time due to the strike” and that “this tuition refund will be proportional to the duration of the semester during which the strike is in effect.”
Students are also calling for the resignations of the school’s president, provost, vice president and the disbandment of the Board of Trustees. Other demands include a tuition freeze from 2023 to 2028. As reported by The Daily Caller, students are also demanding for the university president’s house “be treated as a communal property.”
Assistant Vice President of Communications and Public Affairs Amy Malsin commented to Fox News Digital on the unfolding situation: “The university supports peaceful free expression by our students, and we are listening closely to all of our students’ concerns.”
She indicated that “faculty retain autonomy about how to conduct and grade their courses.”
There are approximately 10,000 students at New School. Tuition is $26,854 a semester or $51,900 for a full year.
Fox News has the article here. You could also read the student demands here.
Category: Society
Those students need those A grades. The workforce is highly competitive, and any advantage that they can obtain will help them secure that second shift as a barista at Starbucks.
Kids nowadays:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/woman-charges-480-hour-help-103000303.html
Yeah, these fucking kids think it’s rude or triggering when you leave them a voicemail.
I hate trading text messages with my 40-something daughter. Whenever I text her to call me cuz I want to have an actual conversation, she ignores me. Then when I call her, she never answers. So, I leave a voicemail. Then she sends my wife a snotty text about the voicemail instead of calling me back. What is it with these people that can’t have a telephone conversation anymore?
Ah, life today… What’s worse, someone sent this or it’s commericially available?
Similar story here. https://nypost.com/2022/12/23/top-school-principal-hides-academic-awards-in-name-of-equity/
Equity, comrade! Achievement is “racist” and shouldn’t be rewarded! /sarc
Don’t forget a “collective” emphasis on group work, too… hey, smart kids, you want good grades to get into college, so help yer buddies out:
Poetic justice that students are turning against the administration and faculty, for implementation of the very social justice horseshit demands the students were taught.
Reality is harsh, and these spoiled children may never understand why they end up in the dung heap of history.
Well, shit, that’s a no-brainer. If you can pass the course without needing to listen to some vainglorious teacher drone on and on, all the better — as an adult in college you should be free to make that choice.
Consider it ‘educational capitalism’ – if the teacher offers something of value, people will show up. If they don’t, maybe they shouldn’t be teaching.
IN a college setting, that makes total sense, and I have no issue with getting the “unofficial withdrawl” or any negative grades removed, as well as a tuition refund for time that teachers were on strike. The rest is pure horseshit, but everyone already knows that.
Pretty sure that it was the support staff (janitors, cafeteria staff,…) who went on strike. Couldn’t see any Professor who is getting tons of money dumped on them to indoctrinate the leaders of tomorrow in George Soros’ view of a new world order have the brass to demand more.
Never underestimate the greed of a leftist.
For “the greater good,” of course…
“The original reason for The New School occupation, which began on December 8, was to support striking faculty members who were lobbying for higher wages and better health care. ”
From the linked Fox News article.
I think some of it is horseshit, yes, but I’m even on the side of the students with some of the other ‘demands’ — having meetings be viewable by the entire student body is trivial in this day and age, and avoids a ‘he said / she said’ issue with school administrators and student representatives. Similarly, making course material available is tied in to the no-brainer from above — withholding shit simply because people don’t show up to class is asinine, for example. The school’s job is to educate, not babysit.
And I’d love to to see the financial transparency demand happen too, but I’m not too optimistic on that. Too often, school administrations do some shady shit where high-level people are making money hand-over-fist, and then complain there’s no money for, say, an extra copy of a needed book in the library. Or, to paraphrase Oscar Wilde, the bureaucracy expands to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy. Academic accounting rivals Hollywood accounting for idiocy.
As for the demands where they want to be able to protest without any consequences… well, that’s laughable. You do it because it’s worth the consequences, not because it’s free of them.
Dammit. I coulda been a valedictorian under those rules!
Hey, my class’ valedictorian got pregnant and dropped out in the last semester…
My high school valedictorian had a secret drug habit, did 5 years for armed robbery and spent the rest of his life bouncing in and out of rehab.
I can’t wait until these little tools hit the workforce.
They have. They don’t show up for work, take days for “self reflection”, and quiet-quit when they actually decide to show up. What that means is those of us who show up never know if we will be staffed enough and pull x2 our own weight. They aren’t fired and are coddled because a certain amount of bodies are required by Regulations to be on the floor.
When they get into Managerial positions they turn into mini-dictators and make strange rules that are ineffective.
I expect it to worsen.
The only proper response to this is: GTFO or get arrested, then get expelled.
I’ve always wanted to see the following: A group of militant students takes over the office of the president of the college and lists their “demands.” The president listens, then when the leader is finished, says something like this:
“I’ve heard what you have to say, and it is total bullshit. You and everyone in this office have until the end of this sentence to start filing out of this building and get back to your classes. If you are not out of here in three minutes, you will be expelled from the university with no refund of tuition.
“And is there anything in what I just said that you did not understand?”
Maybe these snowflakes need some lessons in Woodshed 101.
But I played sports really bad and got participation trophies.
Imagine the fun if the draft came back and you were a Drill Sgt to these oh so special individuals.
God bless the gunny!
I can see the demand for reimbursement for time lost due to the faculty strike.
I would want that if I paid $28k for a semester and only got three weeks of instruction.
Sure enough. If the students paid for services not rendered, they should be reimbursed.
The New School was founded in 1919 with an original mission dedicated to academic freedom and intellectual inquiry and a home for progressive thinkers.
Well, no shit.
When people cut massive checks for something and it’s not how they like the experience they tend to get pissy about it….
The best move is to walk the fuck away from this overpriced youth hostel and pay for an education that’s actually worth the median yearly US salary. Barring that demanding a refund and telling them what you want seems a reasonable alternative to a full on class action lawsuit for theft of funds after taking their overpriced tuition and not holding classes for the duration of the strike.
I mean the school takes in half a billion dollars every year based on that tuition and attendance data, it seems some level of accountability for the return on investment is in order.