What do you think the verdict should be?

[CityGirlintheCountry]

I have WHAT in my yard? :

I was partial to toe rag myself.

Here is the assignment:


In many places in the world, the United States is considered a model political and economic system. Drawing on material presented in the textbook, and other academic sources, discuss the values and beliefs on which this political system is founded. Have those values and beliefs changed over time? Has the system itself changed? Make certain you include issues of types of power and authority and the evolution of America’s specific view of the interplay of democracy (define clearly), representative republics (define clearly), and capitalism. Then delineate the evolution of the ethos of American economic thinking from the works of Horatio Alger, Adam Smith, John Nash and Milton Friedman. Explain how those ideas intersect with the evolving ideas of democracy and capitalism as interwoven social constructs.



Most of this question is actually a critical thinking question in the text, so he cannot complain that it is not material from the text. The Horatio Alger et al connection was covered in class, but he'll probably have to go look that up. As two of these people are economists and two are not he would have to understand what they were known for to understand the connections.

I was VERY specific in the instructions about stle etc and extremely specific about due date and time.

That is AWESOME!!! Great question!

 

[PineappleMama]

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Mwahaha Exactly!!!

For your chair, that is awesome that you have such a great support system!!

 

[RoeDylanda]

I was VERY specific in the instructions about stle etc and extremely specific about due date and time.

Oh, I am giggling over here. So glad that your department head was willing to back you up! This is just what this kid needs-- a nice, chewy question that will take him *forever* to answer. Good for you!​

 

[ChickenWisperer]

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Can't do that due date! This is a semester issue grades are final as of 12/22

Hmmm, no chance for an "incomplete" grade? Are the grades allowed to be adjusted after the grading period is closed? If not, then I vote for the FAIL, but I'm sure the parents will raise holy heck, so I'm betting you'll be adminstering the make-up test.

That's not fair. I have a chronic illness, Ulcerative Colitis complicated with other conditions.

It's *really* difficult to get the school to let me have incompletes, even though I get so ill I can't function at times. I miss at least 30% of each school year, yet I managed to keep my 4.0 up until this year.

If somebody in that situation got an incomplete, because of his bad decision, I would be very very angry.

 

[mom'sfolly]

I love it!!!!!!

That will make the toe rag think twice about blowing off an exam.

 

[BantamoftheOpera]

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had my undergrad Music History final today... I think I would need all of my notes for the past two years in order to get an overview for that question. Hahaha

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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I 2nd that!

 

[I have WHAT in my yard?]

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Hmmm, no chance for an "incomplete" grade? Are the grades allowed to be adjusted after the grading period is closed? If not, then I vote for the FAIL, but I'm sure the parents will raise holy heck, so I'm betting you'll be adminstering the make-up test.

That's not fair. I have a chronic illness, Ulcerative Colitis complicated with other conditions.

It's *really* difficult to get the school to let me have incompletes, even though I get so ill I can't function at times. I miss at least 30% of each school year, yet I managed to keep my 4.0 up until this year.

If somebody in that situation got an incomplete, because of his bad decision, I would be very very angry.

This is my point precisely. I have a student who is actually on chemo. Her assignment to complete the semester - she's been unable to attend classes since shortly after the midterm but has been in touch constantly - is a 3 page paper on the sociology of medicine and medical care. The student who finally landed her dream dancing job and had to leave the week before exams to get the job is doing a paper on the gender identity development in dance. But, I can honestly say to him that other students who did not take the final for legitimate reasons were given a paper as an assignments too!

 

[sonew123]

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Rozzie Im with you-I got lost on the first sentence!

 

[I have WHAT in my yard?]

For those of us who teach: a reminder of why we do -----

Another student (in the same class) got his grade and sent me a note saying that now that the power differential in our relationship was removed (he is no longer in my class and his grade has been posted) he wanted to know if I would be willing to keep discussing certain questions he had! Of course I said yes and he sent me this -

What I am really curious about, is that society and environment is always changing, and people are adapting to it as well. Before we had this technology, knowledge and science, it was easy to believe in religion because people knew very little and were unaware how evolution works through natural selection-whoever is fitter to adapt will survive. So now since there is so much knowledge; and science proves that inelligent design is not true, I wonder if religion will die out anytime soon, like within a century. Before, humans adapted by being religious, and that helped them stick together and survive. I am curious as to how human culture and mindset will change if more people start to accept religion as fake and the world will turn more atheist. It would be such a big thing since religion was part of all of human history and atheism is on a rise, so its cool and interesting to be a part of such a revolution.

I don't care one whit if he and I ever agree about anything! He is THINKING!!!