Making the Grade in defense
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Wiesenfeld shows contempt toward students who request a grade that is higher than that of which they have originally achieved. Out of his experience, Wiesenfeld recognizes that a student often becomes angry and bewildered when they are inadmissible to a grade they had not worked for. To whom should we point finger to account for such irrational behavior of requesting a better grade? Wiesenfeld argues that the students have learned to expect a grade not corresponding to their own qualification but for the effort put in and the potential that they claim to have. Such expectation, he says, is the cause of those who are responsible for the upbringing of the student, because some students in their earlier days might have been rewarded extra for their "extra" effort. Through out the article, he makes references starting from elementary school teachers to university professors and parents as well for such misconduct. For example, a professor confesses that a student can receive a degree "without ever answering a written exam question completely." At elementary schools, such accreditation without qualification may be excusable, but certainly not at university level where applications taught are used in real life. In accordance to real life, the chances are greater for a society to experience more difficulties, simply due to a student's lack of knowledge that could later on lead to mass destruction. It is also important to notice that the students today have more freedom and rights than the students from older days who were not so guided by as many policies and rules...