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Prof says he'll grade students on a curve, so they organize a boycott of the exams and all get As

Johns Hopkins Computer Science prof Professor Peter Fröhlich grades his students on a curve: the highest score on the final gets an A and everyone else is graded accordingly.

Clever students in Fröhlich’s “Intermediate Programming”, “Computer System Fundamentals,” and “Introduction to Programming for Scientists and Engineers” figured out that this meant that if they all boycotted the exam, they’d all get As.

So they organized a boycott, milling around the hall outside the class where the exams were being sat, sternly reminding each other that if no one sat the exam they’d all get straight As, ignoring Fröhlich’s pleas to come and sit the exam.

Fröhlich praised his students’ solidarity: “The students learned that by coming together, they can achieve something that individually they could never have done. At a school that is known (perhaps unjustly) for competitiveness I didn’t expect that reaching such an agreement was possible.”

https://boingboing.net/2018/04/24/hang-together-or-hang-separate-2.html

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Who will ride or die with me this hard

anexperimentallife

I love that even the professor was like, “YES! They did good!”

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The Science of Sheldon

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Someones message to me gave me this idea but I forgot to write down their name, Sorry!

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My mom has these winnie the pooh salt and pepper shakers on the stove but christopher robin fell over and it looks like he’s having a breakdown while pooh dissociates

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The Christopher Robin movie looks great

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A look at #AvengersInfinityWar before and after the special effects (via @ArtofVFX)

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How about Guillermo del Toro do a Marvel movie where actual sets, props, costumes, and makeup are used?

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by the way the funniest thing ive read all week is this post on reddit i think where somebody asked for the pros and cons of different stem majors and so this one girl responded and she said she was a software engineer i believe and then she said “ok pro #1. i never have to wait in line for the bathroom ever again. there are more female restrooms in this building than there are women”

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someone was complaining to me about how there are too many ryans on the team, and i said “you wanna know how to fix that? hire more women” and the only other woman sitting nearby spat out her coffee

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The “tolerant” Libtards of the world folks.

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Oh would you look at that I easily found the unedited original

Try harder op

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they wanna be opressed so bad

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*drops heavy object onto own foot* ahh shit fucking obama

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“Not use collective punishment as it is not fair on the many people who did nothing and under the 1949 Geneva Conventions it is a war crime.”

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Wait it’s a fucking WAR CRIME?!?! I mean that might not be 100% accurate but now I gotta know

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holy crap, collective punishment is a war crime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Geneva_Convention#Collective_punishments

and according to the exact legal phrasing-

No protected person may be punished for an offense he or she has not personally committed. Collective penalties and likewise all measures of intimidation or of terrorism are prohibited.

This technically counts, as students are civilians, and thus considered a “protected person”. So yes, collective classroom punishment breaks the fourth Geneva Convention, and she should be rewarded for standing up for human rights and doing her research.