STUDENTS DEMAND END TO MIDTERMS, ANY GRADE BELOW A "C"

More than 1,300 students at Oberlin College, a liberal arts school in Oberlin, Ohio, have signed a petition asking that the college get rid of any grade below a C for the semester, and some students are requesting alternatives to the standard written midterm examination, such as a conversation with a professor in lieu of an essay. The students say that between their activism work and their heavy course load, getting good grades is increasingly difficult. Megan Bautista, a co-liaison in Oberlin’s student government, said a lot of students spent a lot of time in Cleveland protesting the shooting death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice and then started suffering academically. Said another student, Zakiya Acey, “You know, we’re paying for a service. We’re paying for our attendance here. We need to be able to get what we need in a way that we can actually consume it. Because I’m dealing with having been arrested on campus, or having to deal with the things that my family are going through because of larger systems – having to deal with all of that, I can’t produce the work that they want me to do. But I understand the material, and I can give it to you in different ways.”
* Well, more power to you, and good luck in life, little snowflake.
* I think we knew where this story was headed as soon as it began with the words “liberal arts school.”
* Getting good grades is hard? Damn! Who knew?
* We’re now at the point where anything that requires work is unfair.
* Says the guy who sits in a chair and talks into a microphone for a paycheck.
* What can I say? I was ahead of the curve on all of this.
* Heck, if I knew I wasn’t going to get below a C, I wouldn’t have gone to class at all.
* Why don’t we take this up with your parents, kids. You know, the people who are paying for your education?
* How about this: You students tell us what grade you want at the beginning of the semester and we just give it to you.
* How about the self-righteous angle? “We’re so busy saving the world, that it’s hurt us academically!”
* They’re hurting all right. Hurting in the brain department.
* “We need to be able to get what we need in a way that we can actually consume it.” Oh, consume this, you spoiled punks.