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BlindGradingOrEqualGrading 28 - 04 Apr 2009 - Main.EllaAiken
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 I agree with Keith and Michael’s early post… “The hell with anonymous grading” in this instance. Assuming that no one sends a veto, I do not think that we are truly breaking the rule if we agree to follow it in form but not in spirit. I fail to see the value in writing a blind paper that we all will get the same grade on. That to me is a waste of time as well as an inconvenience and does not directly address why the class does not want to follow the rule. If the consensus is that the rule is incompatible with the grading system that we have followed the entire term, then the only way to assert our bargaining power over the administration is to not follow the rule at all. Now that Professor Moglen has assured the class that nothing bad will happen to him( a concern that I find somewhat comical for students to have) the only way to truly say “fuck the rule” is by not following it at all. Instead we should continue what we started and have a third paper in the same form as our first.

-- WilliamKing - 04 Apr 2009

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I’m struck by the fact that there don’t seem to be any posts that disagree with breaking the rule. I don’t remember seeing that in the deleted posts, and I tried to look back at them to make sure—I’m not quite a master of the wiki yet so I could be missing something, but I didn’t see them there either.

Surely not everyone agrees 100%? Even if there does not end up being a veto, I just can’t imagine that we were all as for breaking the rule as the opinions here. I think that breaking the rule gives us the best opportunity to demonstrate effort, commitment, and improvement, but it’s not often that 60 people in a room agree entirely with me or everyone else for that matter. So, I’m more curious about why the opinions expressed are only those that seem to be in-line with what the majority of our classmates and our professor are in favor of, without any dissenters or even half-committed questioners.

I realize that we disagree all over the wiki with each other and with Professor Moglen, but, when it comes to disagreeing about something as important to law students as grades, are we all really in unison or just too pressured to go with the perceived norm of what people other than ourselves seem to want? Isn’t this to some extent the same reason that we still have the current CLS grading system in our other classes?

-- EllaAiken - 04 Apr 2009

 
 
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