alt.education

On Sun, 02 Mar 2008 00:57:29 -0500, Bob LeChevalier
wrote:

>J. Z. Al-Huriyeh wrote:
>>On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:41:44 -0500, Bob LeChevalier
>> wrote:
>
>>I have felt for a very long time that if the grades didn't have this
>>defacto cash value, schools could grade more fairly and the college
>>selection process would not be as class-based as it is now.
>
>If the grades had no defacto cash value, only a fraction as many
>people would want to go to college at all.

You don't figure that the better pay you can expect has something to
do with it?

Only a small fraction of people who start college actually earn a
degree. If the funding process were not GPA based, I think fewer
people would be so delusional about their prospects of graduating.

JZAH
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