Amid the media clamor about outsourcing and downsizing, offshoring, and the “jobless recovery” lurks an ugly little reality that all sides are either blind to or too afraid to point out: the reason American companies aren’t hiring anyone anymore is because they don’t want to. That’s not an arbitrary judgement, rather it boils down [...]
... and another reason grades are asinine and have no real meaning.
Student #1
Total attendance: 4 X
Workload: Three pieces (unfinished). Two begun with 15 minute sessions. Third begun night before midterm critique.
Grade: C
Student #2
Total attendance: all
Workload: One serial piece (unfinished).
Grade: A
Student #3
Total attendance: one missed
Workload: Four pieces (completed). In the midst of three [...]
The author is Kat Davis, a poet and magazine editor and frequent contributor to EastWesterly Review :
“It’s like we’ve reverted to being five and [are] staking out our own peed-in sandbox.”