“Professor Encourages Students To Choose Their Own Grades To ‘Reduce Stress’”

“Professor Encourages Students To Choose 
Their Own Grades To ‘Reduce Stress’”

by Joshua Caplan

"Just when you thought ‘Generation Snowflake’ couldn’t get any worse, a new ‘stress reduction’ effort tops it. University of Georgia professor Richard Watson is allowing students to choose their own grades to alleviate stress. Watson’s stress reduction policy can be read below.

Campus Reform reports: "According to online course syllabi for two of Dr. Richard Watson’s fall business courses, he has introduced the policy because “emotional reactions to stressful situations can have profound consequences for all involved. This policy might hinder the development of group skills and mastery of the class material.”   

As such, if students feel “unduly stressed by a grade for any assessable material or the overall course,” they can “email the instructor indicating what grade they think is appropriate, and it will be so changed” with “no explanation” being required.

“If in a group meeting, you feel stressed by your group’s dynamics, you should leave the meeting immediately and need offer no explanation to the group members,” the policy adds, saying such students can “discontinue all further group work” with their remaining grade being “based totally on non-group work.”

Similarly, when it comes to “tests and exams” for Watson’s “Data Management” and “Energy Informatics” courses, all will be “open book and open notes” and “designed to assess low level mastery of the course material.” Finally, for in-class presentations, Watson will allow “only positive comments” to be made, while “comments designed to improve future presentations will be communicated by email.”

- http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/

Usually I'd be tempted to heap well deserved contempt, scorn and ridicule on 
this bunch, but they're so tragically weak, stupid and ignorant already, what's the point?
Oh, how very rude and socially incorrect that was! Sorry, sorry... not.