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Making grades meaningless so that everyone advances is doing a disservice to kids' education.
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this post was submitted on 12 Mar 2026
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This misses the point of grades being a stupid system in the first place. The very idea that people should be numbered and ranked is so readily accepted that we only dare consider how to do it correctly.
The truth is that essays should not be graded at all, because there should be no such thing as grading in the first place.
I on the other hand kind of enjoy the part where we have some system that makes sure people who design our bridges and create our medicene know what they are doing.
What would be a better way to check whether students have acquired the necessary knowledge other than a scored assessment of it?
If it's only about checking the knowledge: Talking to the students (e.g., in a job interview). But grades have a place as a screening tool because not everyone had the time to go through 10000 applications for 10 jobs.