Something to consider - Thomas Jefferson - who attended the College of William and Mary for three years, studied law under George Wythe before entering the Virginia Bar, writer of the Declaration of Independence, President of the United States of America, and founder of the University of Virginia - never had an academic grade.
Here's a fair discussion of the grades issue which pretty much parallels the on-going debates we had as a faculty for the entire 13 years I was a high school principal.
http://beyond-school.org/2008/06/10/...back-teaching/
And so it goes...around...again...or something...
Richard
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