Word: graders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bryan Hamric, II, is a sixth-grader at the St. Mark's School of Texas in Dallas. Last week Bryan's long, long thoughts on spring (which earned him a B plus) were carried by the Dallas Morning News...
Behind the charge against Melvin Bentley Ellis, 45, and his wife Frances, 37, looms a bitterly felt religious conflict: the Ellises are Jewish and Hildy McCoy, the freckled, honey-blonde first-grader they adopted as a ten-day-old baby six years ago, was born of an unmarried Roman Catholic mother...
Much more typical is the question that asks for a discussion of a small part of a course, covered by a lecture or two and perhaps a chapter in the reading. These demand no more than memory, even for the strictest grader, although the student who had thought about the problem or done some extra work might get an A or even an A+ on a rare exam...
Another Economics section man said that it was "unavoidable" that students are penalized for poor writing, "no matter how fair the grader tries...
...this point our assumption expert proceeds to discuss anything which strikes his fancy at the moment. If he can sneak the first assumption past the grader, then the rest is clear sailing. If he fails, he still gets a certain amount of credit for his irrelevant but fact-filled discussion of scientific progress in the 18th century. And it is amazing what some graders will swallow in the name of intellectual freedom...