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Mansfield's reputation as a tough grader has earned him the nickname "C-Minus Mansfield." And he said this semester's grading experiment will let him evaluate students rigorously and accurately, but not unfairly lower students' grade point averages...
...like wearing shorts and skirts that show my stomach," says Tonya Rodriguez, an eighth-grader at Seven Springs Middle School in New Port Richey, Fla. "I have a really flat stomach, and I like it." Her principal, Roni Sushko, isn't quite so charmed. She has cited Tonya, 13, for dress-code violations eight times since the beginning of the school year, suspending her on two of those occasions. Tonya's infractions include wearing miniskirts and spaghetti-strap tops, which run afoul of regulations that the school's county instituted last year. The new code specifies that all skirts...
...compare ourselves to Britney," Sarah says, "and most of the time it makes us feel bad because we don't match up." She recalls that the pressure to look good began in fourth grade, when a lot of her peers started worrying about their weight. Now a sixth-grader, Sarah has a formidable collection of lip gloss, nail polish and eye glitter (the only makeup her mother allows her to wear). Yet even she believes there should be limits: she would never wear some of Britney's more daring attire, she says, because "there's a difference between looking cool...
...long run the expert in the use of unwarranted assumption comes off better than the equivocator. He would deal with our question on Hume not by baffling the grader or by fencing him but like this: “It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we note the progress of that age on all fronts. After all, Hume did not live in a vacuum...
...this point our assumption expert proceeds to discuss anything which strikes his fancy at the moment. If he can speak the first assumption past the grader, then the rest is clear sailing. If he fails, he still gets a fair amount of credit for his irrelevant but fact-filled discussion of scientific progress in the 18th century. And it is amazing what some graders will swallow in the name of intellectual freedom...