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From: danny@mips.COM (Danny Ammon)
Newsgroups: comp.edu,sci.math,sci.physics
Subject: Re: Student and Course Integrity
Summary: grades are personal
Message-ID: <9940@quacky.mips.COM>
Date: 14 Dec 88 17:02:52 GMT
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In article <859@quintus.UUCP>, ok@quintus.uucp (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
> In article <4362@Portia.Stanford.EDU> zimm@Portia.stanford.edu (Dylan Yolles) writes:
> >The fact that he actually *posted* the results is despicable,
> >though--he shouldn't have carried through with his promise.
> 
> I still don't understand this.  WHY would it be despicable?
> I have been in this country for nearly 4 years now, and have never felt
> so alien:  I honestly do not see why anyone would object to this.


Grades are personal information which a student may share with others
if he/she wishes.  The student's grades are nobody else's business.

Not to say that grades and money are the same, but consider the analogy:
	Bank tellers do not broadcast the balance of my account
	to all their customers.

	In doing so, the bank teller would be violating my privacy.....
	and this is "despicable."


danny ammon

email:	danny@mips.com
	ammon@polya.stanford.edu