I Am A Student From Class - 1024 Words

UWP22 014 Tony Xiao Paper 4 Word Count: 824 Dear Mrs. Wang: This is Tony Xiao. I am a student from class No.2. You taught us Calculus in 2012 to 2013 academic years. Our math class were consisted of many students who wanted to study abroad, which means all students in our class would finally go abroad so we putted lots of efforts on English, relatively spent less time on math. That fact caused most of us got low scores on math exam. I acknowledged that you are a good teacher, who gave us lots of confidence to explore the world of Math. However, when we compared our grades on exams and the grades on transcript, we found out our grades were raised by 10 to 30. Then I started to notice the grade inflation. This is was a problem because†¦show more content†¦If everyone get low grades on a certain course, there will be few students take that that course. The second is the faculty member who believes that grades are a vehicle to please students rather than to recognize and reward performance will tend to give higher grades. The third is te aching faculties gave higher grades used to obtain better student evaluations of teaching.(Schiming C. R. (n.d.)) Consequently, the grade inflation has lots of side-effects. The grade inflation would lead the Mediocrity. Like Jason Saltoun-Ebin put in his article â€Å"Open Letter to Janet Napolitano: Please Help the UC System Escape the Culture of Mediocrity†(2013), â€Å"How are these graduates, for example, going to compete in the job market without being able to write a cover letter demonstrating basic rules of English grammar? How are they going to be able to pay back their tens of thousands of dollars of student loans, or save money to buy a car or house, or be a productive member of society, when they do not know how to write!† Students may become â€Å"academic lazy† under this circumstance. Students could do less work to get the same grade with the â€Å"help† of curve. Besides that, more serious thing is their grades cannot reflect their ability in academic. The grade may be misleading them. I am an example of this. My high school Math grade let me believe I am good at Math but in fact not. When I re-call my high