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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...
...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...
...called in Ponder and several other teachers to discuss Minter's scholastic difficulties-"not in an official capacity, but as a friend of the boy's dad." A few days later Captain Robert S. Hayes, head of the language department, ordered Ponder to conform to the flunk quota. Ponder refused: "I won't do it. I won't permit it to be done." He was thereupon flunked as an unsatisfactory teacher; his contract lapses in June...
...volunteers, promising lavish vacations to champion choppers. "My dear," a husband chirruped to his wife on a Havana soap opera, "when I go to the cane field and really work for my country, all my aches and pains disappear." Every village, factory, business, union and government agency received a quota, and any Cuban who failed to heed the call risked losing his job. Out they came last week, 1,000,000 strong, nearly paralyzing by their absence every government agency and private business. In the swing with Castro were his little brother Raul, who heads up the armed forces, President...
...seldom have anything nice to say about any movies? Do you really feel they are all that bad and so worthy of derision, or is it just that you have some bad-review quota to fill? My husband and I used to rely on your taste, but now it seems that if we accept your guidance, we will miss many worthwhile films. Do try to be a little more objective...