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From: ok@quintus.uucp (Richard A. O'Keefe)
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Subject: Re: Student and Course Integrity
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Date: 15 Dec 88 22:09:54 GMT
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In article <15456@joyce.istc.sri.com> gds@joyce.istc.sri.com (Greg Skinner) writes:
>Presumably, you are in school to learn, and your grade should be used
>by you as a yardstick to measure your aptitude of[sic] the subject.

But how can you do that unless you know the quality of the yardstick?
Publishing the grades of a class exposes the _teacher_ just as much as
the students.  The two Universities I've been to wouldn't let people into
a class in the first place if they didn't think there was a good chance
that they would be able to cope with it.  If 90% of the class get Cs, the
teacher is doing something wrong.  Why should this information be
concealed from the students?