Summary Of Why Colleges Shower Their Students With A's By Brent Staples

College is a coupon for success. In today’s generation, one is seen to be most successful and more likely to achieve accomplishments if they have a degree; in addition, the better the degree, the more qualifications are perceived to be prosperous. The point in general is that college, itself, holds a lot of potential that affects an individual’s life tremendously, therefore students see they have the right to verdict and combat for the grade in which they consider is deserving and reasonable.
In Brent Staples’ essay, “Why Colleges Shower Their Students with A’s,” he gives reasoning for the great grade inflation that is steadily increasing. When too many grades are frail and students are unhappy with a certain course, a negative reputation forms, lessening the oncoming students, and leaving an empty class. This also affects the professors themselves; if a class lacks students, a …show more content…
It is human nature to be bias. Every human is different with different thoughts, actions, and speech, but the act of being bias is a similarity. Professors and teachers are humans, believe it or not. This clearly explains why I am certain that Staples’ argument on grade inflation is accurate because I have viewed very similar situation my entire life. Growing up in a small town, I have discovered that everyone is commonly familiar with each other and some are more familiar than others. When a student just happens to get the third grade teacher who went to high school with his or her mother, the grades are rigged. When a student happens to receive the same teacher as his or her older, brilliant sibling once studied under, favoritism is also passed along that allows that students grades inflates. The difference between my experience and Staple’s reasoning is that those professors are inflating grades for a moral status and cash; mine do it as