Spread the Grades Around

[SkiCat]

Spread the Grades Around

Why stop at spreading the wealth around. Please call your school, college, university, high school, etc. and let them know you want them to implement the following plan:

Students with a GPA above a 3.66 (A-) shall give the entire portion above 3.66 to their fellow students.

This spreading of the GPA around won’t hurt the high GPA students’ success and will help your fellow students. It will give your fellow students a chance at success too.

So call your educational institutions and tell them you want to take some of the pie from those high GPA students and redistribute the pie and give some to the low GPA students a piece of that pie.

Make those phone calls!


The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
Thomas Jefferson

 

[Abominable]

An oldie, but one that needs retelling now and again:


A young woman was about to finish her first year of college. Like so many others her age, she considered herself to be a very liberal Democrat, and among other liberal ideals, was very much in favor of higher taxes to support more government programs. She was deeply ashamed that her father was a rather staunch Republican, a feeling she openly expressed.

Based on the lectures that she had participated in, and the occasional chat with a professor, she felt that her father had for years harbored an evil, selfish desire to keep what he thought should be his. One day she was challenging her father on his opposition to higher taxes on the rich and the need for more government programs.

The self-professed objectivity proclaimed by her professors had to be the truth and she indicated so to her father. Her father responded by asking how she was doing in school.

Taken aback, she answered rather proudly that she had a 4.0 GPA, and let him know that it was tough to maintain, insisting that she was taking a very difficult course load and was constantly studying, which left her no time to go out and party like other people she knew. She didn't even have time for a boyfriend, and didn't really have many college friends because she spent all her time studying.

Her father listened and then asked, 'How is your friend Audrey doing?' She replied, 'Audrey is barely getting by. All she takes are easy classes, she never studies, and she barely has a 2.0 GPA. She is very popular on campus; college for her is a blast. She's always invited to all the parties and lots of times she doesn't even show up for classes because she's too hung over.'

Her father asked his daughter, 'Why don't you go to the Dean's office and ask him to deduct 1.0 off your GPA and give it to your friend who only has a 2.0. That way you will both have a 3.0 GPA. That would be a fair and equal distribution of GPA.'

The daughter, visibly shocked by her father's suggestion, angrily fired back, 'That's a crazy idea, how would that be fair! I've worked really hard for my grades! I've invested a lot of time, and a lot of hard work! Audrey has done next to nothing toward her degree. She played while I worked my tail off!' She does not deserve part of my grades, I earned them.

The father slowly smiled, winked and said gently, 'Welcome to the Republican party.'