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Posted: Thu Aug 9 2001
Making The Grade

I, like many people, am concerned about our education system. The way I see it, the current model is grossly unfair.

My son is in highschool. He can barely read or write. Even though he has an IQ of 87, well above the legal limit for a "mentally handicapped" classification, he is failing every subject. Sure, he doesn't try all that hard. In fact, he spends most of his time in the arcade, but that should not be an automatic "F".

The root of the problem is, I feel, that other, more greedy students are keeping all the A's for themselves. These philistinian grade-capitalists are unfairly usurping the grades of the proletariat while the bourgeois B and C students are too entrenched in their ways to do anything.

Some say that the 'A' students are smarter or work harder than the rest, and I agree. But why should that mean others have to fail? Just because someone is born into intelligence, does that mean they must keep it? I think it's high time that we, the people, take back the grades and pass them out fairly.

Yes, I think it is time for a redistribution of grades.

Ontario, CA

--John Ruthiford

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