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In 2017, Macalester College, a pricey Midwestern college, ran an article in its\u00a0glossy \u201cMacalester Today\u201d magazine titled \u201cThe Dog Is In.\u201d Indeed, that was the cover story. In the article, Macalester boasted about having multiple therapy dogs roaming the campus to help students deal with homework stress\u2014students who, as best as I could tell, had about 12 hours a week of class time, plus homework. I was not impressed.<\/p>

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Little did I know, though, that worse was to come. Nine years after Macalester boasted about its students being so fragile that they needed therapy dogs, the University of Michigan \u00a0has announced that it is hiding first-semester grades from freshmen, lest those same freshmen might be distressed if their grades didn\u2019t meet their expectations:<\/p>\n

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The University of Michigan\u2019s College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA) will stop reporting traditional letter grades on first-semester transcripts for incoming freshmen beginning in Fall 2027, replacing them with \u201cpass\u201d or \u201cno credit\u201d designations as part of a pilot program aimed at reducing student stress and curbing a \u201cmental health crisis\u201d.<\/p>\n

Students will still earn letter grades and receive instructor feedback in every course. However, those grades will remain internal, will not appear on official transcripts, and will not affect first-semester GPAs.<\/p>\n

University officials say the policy is intended to help freshmen transition to college, support student well-being, and encourage students to take academically challenging courses without worrying that one difficult semester could permanently affect their records.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This is bat-fecal-matter crazy. If the students aren\u2019t given specific information about their academic progress, they cannot fix their mistakes and change their trajectory.<\/p>

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I had a couple of times in college and law school where I was either lazy or confused, resulting in bad grades. Maybe I was made of stronger stuff than the new freshmen, or maybe, just maybe, I lived in a time when we were less infantilized, but those bad grades didn\u2019t cause me to have a mental collapse. Instead, I fixed the problem, either by being less lazy or by haunting my professors until I understood what I was doing wrong. Failure (well, not an actual \u201cF\u201d but, still, bad grades) was as important a lesson as anything the professor was actually teaching.<\/p>\n

It would be lovely if life were just about going from success to success and pleasure to pleasure. However, most of life is about dealing with harsh reality: The need to get good grades, a job, pay bills, deal with unpleasant people (including bosses or teachers), etc. Life is work.<\/p>\n

Our ability to get the most out of life\u2014to grow as a person and to be happy\u2014comes not from gliding through the good times, but from learning when there are bad times: learning to change harmful behaviors, and learning to use reasonable optimism, not unreasoning, immature despair, as the engine powering you.<\/p>\n

And one other thing: The grading system across academia has a profound flaw, and the way to fix it isn\u2019t to hide information from students.<\/p>\n

Grades should be weighted, with the grades at the beginning of the year, semester, or quarter having less value in the averaging than grades later in the quarter. What matters isn\u2019t where you start; it\u2019s where you end. If you struggle in the beginning but, through hard work, get better as you go, those early grades shouldn\u2019t matter at all, or should matter minimally. In the same way, if you start slacking off after a fast start, that should be punished.<\/p>

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