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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.edu,sci.math,sci.physics
Subject: Re: Posting grades (Was Re: Student and Course Integrity)
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Date: 13 Dec 88 21:57:52 GMT
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Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
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To answer the burning question of why grades are not posted publicly in
the USA:

Privacy is a red herring.

Educators don't want students comparing each others' grades too freely,
lest they (the students) discover how inconsistent grading often is.

And in business, salaries are confidential for the same reason.

But people have been brainwashed into believing that they should be
ashamed of their grades, or of their salaries.

Divide and conquer -- and it works!
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!dhesi