How Grades Degrade

We have conditioned an entire population into never learning if there is no earning

I looked up at the beginning of class, surveyed the students sitting before me, and glimpsed about five or six faces I hadn’t seen in weeks. I immediately knew why they were there.

In the previous few classes, I had given credit to students who attended class. The students who came to class did not have to do the assignment accompanying the lecture. Ins…