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...long as an Annapolis senior manages to stay above the bottom 4% of his class, he is as good as an ensign already. Such is the effect of the Naval Academy's unofficial "flunk quota," brought to light last week after a teacher tried to defend his right to fail as many midshipmen as he deemed deficient in scholarship. Though flunk quotas are larger in the lower classes, Annapolis is thus stuck with a grade system that encourages students to coast. Moreover, not only Fs but also Ds are frowned on, and grades are regularly inflated to achieve...
...from 40 to 200; the proportion of civilian teachers was pushed up to 51%. In the fall of 1963, it became apparent that under toughened standards flunkouts would almost triple. Academic Dean A. Bernard Drought, who came to Annapolis from Marquette, instituted what he thought would be a temporary flunk quota to keep the midshipmen afloat...
...flunk out of Harvard because they are intellectually incapable of doing the work; unsatisfactory grades are almost always due to neglect of and indifference to courses. Students who leave with satisfactory grades have often said they felt divorced from "the real world," that their life at college fulfilled no necessary or useful purpose...
...study by New York State showed that drivers under 18 have an accident rate 70% higher than older ones. Most drivers are tested only once in a lifetime, under ideal conditions at low speeds. On the highway-where they have to make 50 decisions per mile-they would flunk most elementary tests. Thirty states do not require periodic auto inspection, and those states tend to have the steepest death rates (the highest fatality rate is in California, the lowest in Connecticut...
...points that need clarification. First, when confronted with such statements as "Someone has control over my mind," in the interest of fairness shouldn't there be three choices: True, False, and Don't Know? Secondly, in order to be accepted, must an applicant pass or flunk the test...