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Re: Dear Student: No, I Won’t Change the Grade You Deserve
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Re: Dear Student: No, I Won’t Change the Grade You Deserve

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Carl Beijer
Feb 15, 2015
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Vitae asks, “Let’s say a student who received a C grade on a paper asks you to reread it and change their grade because they ‘worked so hard on it.’ How would you respond?”

And the responses, of course, are a terrible parade of righteous indignation and unearned contempt from various third-rate elites in defense of their precious meritocracy.

As a teacher…

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