College Students Need To Toughen Up Essay

In “College Students Need to Toughen Up,” Robert Scheslinger writes about the expectation of present day collge students and their belive that they should be graded primarily upon their effort rather than the quality of work and knowledge of the subject. Throughout the article Schelsinger references professors and unniversity officials suhc as a Univwersity of Maryland professor who has alwasy told her students that if they do what’s expected of them they will earn a c. James Hogge, a university of Vanderbilt officla said how many students are getting the level of effort confused with the quality of their work. Schlesinger says that hard work is important in grading but shouldn’t be the standard for grading, the reason for this is becasue hard work for one student …show more content…
If grade inflation was to happen and students were to be graded Schlesinger belives that students would enter the real world with an inaccurate sense of their abilites. With the students of today’s society advocating for grade inflation and grading standard to change it is blatently obvious that college studnts need to toughen up, by making a higher grade more easily acchievale just by putting in C level effort the eductaion system will be negativly setting up these students to succeed later in life becasue they will enter the world with an innacturtae sense of their abilites. As these students begin to graduate and start their careers they enter the work force at a disadvantage because they would have graduated from an education system with grade inflation. While these students are in the real world they have this feeling “ that