Students in Favor of Wealth Distribution Are Asked to Pass Their Grade Points to Other Students

[Zywiec]

A California college student is conducting a social experiment where he’s trying to get his peers to sign a petition in favor of distributing grade point averages to show how the federal government distributes wealth.

Oliver Darcy, a recent college graduate, proposes that students with good grades contribute their GPA to their academically sluggish friends. He argues that this is how the federal government takes wealth from the country’s high wage earners and distributes it to the low income earners.

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http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/08/17/college-students-in-favor-wealth-distribution-are-asked-to-support-grade/

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[Canuckistanian]

1. Thanks for playing "Really Bad Analogy"

What do you have for them, Johnny?

[ixion]

6. lol

perfect. :rofl:

[SusanaMontana41]

10. What a bastardization of promoting the public welfare.

Hey, Oliver, How about asking your friends who got into college without borrowing a cent donate some of their extra funds to college kids who are borrowing themselves broke?

[socialist_n_TN]

14. Nice comeback Susana

:)

[SusanaMontana41]

17. Thanks. Just trying to keep up with my friends, such as

socialist_n_TN ...

:hi:

[FSogol]

2. Maybe that's the only way the GOP will get candidates that have better grades than Cs?

:shrug:

[Xipe Totec]

3. People who talk in metaphors ought to shampoo my crotch nt

[bluestateguy]

4. False comparison

You can't pass on your GPA to your children and grandchildren like you can with your estate.

I might as well ask every pro-lifer to be true to their beliefs and adopt a child or at least agree to pay more in taxes for the additional welfare that will be demanded when abortion becomes illegal.

Or I remember during the height of the Iraq War, when many of us war opponents challenged young males who supported the war to enlist. That fell upon deaf ears. It was also an ineffective tactic of argument, even if it did make us feel good.

[Juche]

5. Not the same since GPA only goes to 4.0

However, if I had a GPA of 97.3 and other people had a GPA of 1.3 and the goal was 4.0, then yeah I'd redistribute. If you need 60k a year for a family to have a decent standard of living and I make 5 million, then it is better for me to pay taxes than someone who makes 20k a year.

[Angry Dragon]

19. +1000 ............ good answer as they say on FAMILY FEUD

[saras]

24. PERFECT answer.

[OHdem10]

7. Teaching Kids the virtue of selfishness early????

[JI7]

8. how is this idiot in college ?

[Zywiec]

11. He actually already graduated. n/t

[Selatius]

9. That's been going on for several years with various College Republicans. It's a tired and old tactic

Foremost is the fact that your access to food typically doesn't depend on your fucking grades; it depends on how much money your paycheck has on it. We're not asking hedge fund managers who make 200,000,000/year to give up 199,999,000 to taxation, and even if the hedge fund manager only went home with 5,000,000 at the end of the year with taxes taken out, he'd still not have to go for want as far as putting food on his fucking table goes.

They're just promoting the ideology of selfishness.

[pscot]

12. So 2% will get "A"s

5% will get "B"s, 10 will get"C"s and the restst "D"s and "E"s.

[Zywiec]

13. +1

[renegade000]

15. some major flaws have already been pointed out

by other posters. but another one i want explained is... if taxing the wealthy is akin to GPA redistribution... what would tax cuts for the wealth be akin to in this analogy?

[Renew Deal]

16. How much has Oliver Darcy taken in subsedized student loans?

[JBoy]

18. Oliver Darcy never gets laid, and doesn't want anyone else to, either

http://www.mercedsunstar.com/2010/03/06/1339075_oliver-darcy-stay-serious-about.html

For the past couple years, UC Merced has participated in the "National Condom Week."

The weeklong event consists of several activities, hosted by HEROES, a subsection of the Health Center devoted to health promotion.

Yhis year, they included a ladies sex toy presentation, a night of "sex on the big screen," a rubberwear party, and a lubricant taste test. These activities, however, do nothing to accomplish the goals of reducing casual sex and the spread of STDs.

...

Oliver Darcy is co-founder and current president of the College Republicans at UC Merced

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Reduce your own casual sex, you fucking fascist!

[Drale]

20. Every time I hear a story like this

It really makes me look around at my fellow college students and say the future is fucked.

[bhikkhu]

21. ...if a perfect score is 4.0. and the best students are awarded up to 4,000,000 GPA score

...and then asked whether they would consider redistributing a portion of their scores, then it would more accurately reflect the real world, and the real practice of "redistribution".

[provis99]

22. let's try a more accurate experiment.

Let's let the conservative students steal grade points from the students who actually did the work, and then see if the robbed students would like some of their grade points back.

Because that's what conservative shouting about wealth redistribution actually is.

[Demoiselle]

23. Mr. Darcy? Really?

Does Jane Austen know about this twerp?

[saras]

25. It's more fair than the opposite - otherwise known as grading on a curve

Why ask the students if they WANT to? Why not just TELL them the school is redistributing their GPA - preferably upwards. I mean, if your GPA is 3.0 or below, you clearly aren't using it wisely, so don't need that much, and what's more, you're probably dragging the class level down to, so OF COURSE those with really high GPAs deserve compensation from you. And students with low GPAs, even for one quarter? Fuck 'em - just take it away and give it to someone more deserving. Hell, we should be taking GPA away from state and community schools as a whole and giving it to elite institutions.


With curve grading, the unfairness is forced on students - they don't get to choose, except by going to a different school (usually curve grading is a departmental attitude rather than an individual aberration). In curve grading, one person doing exceptionally well doesn't merely do better themselves, they actively harm everyone else, by weighing them more poorly against graduates of other institutions than is fair.