[etni] A new approach to marking

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This was from the "Irascible Professor "  Enjoy, and have a happy successful 
and peaceful year.
... An English teacher I worked with told me that the way he marked essays
was exactly how his English teacher marked essays when he was a student.  He 
would stand at the top of the stairway and throw all of the essays high into 
the air.  The grade a student received was based upon how the essay landed.
The essays that landed at the top of the pile would get D's because they
didn't put in enough effort to weigh the essay down.  The papers that landed
at the bottom would get C's because there was too much to read.  All of the
other papers would receive B's because that was a decent enough grade.  No one 
got A's because A's meant the students were perfect, and this teacher was the 
only one who had met a level of perfection worthy of an A. ....
VSJ
Valerie S. Jakar,PhD
Jerusalem, Israel.
 
Mahatma Gandhi said, "I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and 
my windows to be stuffed. I want the culture of all lands to be blown about my 
house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any."


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