Last year, I did a popular post on what happens if you redistribute grades in a classroom.
Someone has turned this idea into a video, starring some well-known political figures.
And if you want to see a real-world example of how students react to this idea, here’s another good video.
By the way, I can’t resist being pedantic and re-explaining that socialism is not the same as redistributionism.
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Come to think of it, the video illustration — intuitively showing even the grade average declining over time — shows the difference between the short and long term Laffer Curves — more elegantly expressed as Zorba’s corollary:
“For a long enough time horizon, the Laffer Curve converges to the Rahn Curve.”
…on second thought, I should have said downgraded from an A to a C+, so that the majority who works for a D- can get upgraded to a D. Remember there is also some additional grade loss to waist, fraud and abuse…
Oh come on, cheer up. It’s just fun to get that first B while being on an extended three month spring break. And with a little bit of optimism you can HOPE that the CHANGE will not lead to terminal group failure.
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Actually this is a very entertaining video. But it is extreme.
In real life, students that get an A are simply downgraded to a B so that those who get an F can be upgraded to a C-. In more formal terms, good and bad students do not get the grade they earn, but only half of the amount by which their true grade differs from the class average.
See, there are always greedy fools that will go for the B and very few free riders that will just settle for a C- while spending every other day surfing at the beach. As a matter of fact, there are enough greedy fools and so few free riders that graduates from these mandatory compassion colleges turn out just as skilled as those who graduate from colleges rejecting HopNChange grading.
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But I was not in America when Ronald Reagan was elected president, I was busy being indoctrinated to the virtues and superiority of mandatory collectivism at some European elementary school, so I do have a question to those of you who were born here:
Given the ideology that is typically attributed to Reagan, and given the Americans I see around me these days, is the video philosophy really the explicit and advertised policy platform upon which Reagan campaigned and was elected? Or was Reagan elected on some other campaign promises, only to subsequently change and stray away from mandatory compassion while president? The American voters I see around me and know of today seem like a different race of people. They do not seem like people who ever accepted the optimism and responsibility of voting for someone like Reagan. The American voter majorities I see around me these days are more or less of a European disposition – and propensity to decline.
Reblogged this on The Conservative New Ager.
It seems highly unlikely that the French will ever have a non-statist President so the argument that the right will learn from an out-and-out socialist government, sadly, does not hold much water.