I have helped author SCOTUS amicus briefs, been deposed as an expert on behalf of hackers and recently had an expert report help win a case against a $2T company, but I’ve never had more difficulty winning an argument than convincing Stanford students that an A- is a fine grade.
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Replying to @alexstamos
There is no way to win this argument, because you and the student are trying to persuade one another of different things. You're trying to convince them to have more perspective. They're trying to convince you to just raise their damn grade.
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Replying to @mattblaze @alexstamos
(The law school version is, as I've discovered, somewhat different, because both grading and the big law hiring process are insane.)
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Replying to @mattblaze
I will never teach a law school class again, after I was forced to create a paper-only, bluebook compatible, no open laptop version of our hands-on final exam for a practical hacking class.
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Sounds like you could have saved yourself a lot of work by going directly to giving everyone an A
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