Education

College Students + Petition to Redistribute Grades = Another Funny Video

The idea isn’t new, but the results are just as funny.

The Young America’s Foundation (YAF) just released a “stellar entry” from its annual GPA Redistribution Petition and Video Contest. That contest looks to capture hypocritical thinking on college campuses, where many are willing to redistribute wealth but not grades. The following entry comes from Carthage College (located in Wisconsin*). YAF explains what you’re about to see:

Yet, when students at Carthage where asked if they would be willing to sign a petition to redistribute GPA points from the top 10% to the rest of the college, most of them said NO. One student said, “No, because I worked hard for my grades!”

Another said, “At Carthage, each student has an equal opportunity to get the GPA they desire.” And another, “I don‘t want my GPA being taken away from me if I had an ’A’.”

When the petitioners told students that oftentimes outside factors leave students at an unfair disadvantage, a student said, “No. I’m low-income and a minority, and I have a fairly decent GPA, so…” 

Fittingly, some not in the upper 10% welcomed the free points. “Why not? I’m down,” said one student with a low GPA  (eagerly signing the petition), but then the student’s friend standing next to him said, “It takes away from people working hard… and obviously it’s paid off with their higher GPA.” Later in the conversation, when the first student told his friend to sign the petition, the friend responded, “How about trying harder for a semester?”

But the best interview might be of a man who appears to be a professor who is absolutely taken aback by the audacity of the petition. His facial reactions tell the story:

Carthage College Students Unwilling to Redistribute Grades

Carthage College Students Unwilling to Redistribute Grades

It should be noted that the students in the video aren’t necessarily being hypocritical, as they aren‘t saying that income redistribution is okay but grade redistribution isn’t (there’s also no indication if Carthage is generally a liberal or conservative campus). However, it may highlight the hypocrisy within higher education in general — or at least that not all college campuses subscribe to the redistribution notion.

See for yourself:

(H/T: CNS News)

*The college is not in Illinois as the article originally stated. We’ve updated the piece to reflect that.

Comments (198)

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  • BehindTheMouth
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 3:49pm

    And these idiots are the future of America. God help us all

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    • junior1971
      Posted on April 23, 2012 at 4:05pm

      MOUTH; These poor, brainwashed, mind fluked, victims are definitely the future. I assure you that over time, experience and hard reality will free them from their limited perspective. But will it be too late?

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    • Hickory
      Posted on April 23, 2012 at 4:09pm

      Hey smoke dope and screw coeds. Don’t worry. Old geek over there will work his @$$ off for high grades and get us through. Now, if I can find someone who will pay my college loan for me.

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    • mdlwoods
      Posted on April 23, 2012 at 5:29pm

      I agree with Junior. After these kids get out in the real world and have to earn their own living (if mommy and daddy are not their own microcosm of the entitlement government) then their attitudes will change, at least most of them. Will it be too late? Well, that depends on us who are already out here earning our own and who disagree with the redistribution mindset. It is up to us to ensure that we get these progressive/socialist/communist idiots out of our government and ensure that we still have a free country for these kids to earn a living in. We must also talk to each of them that we know personally and explain capitalism vs. entitlement society in small terms so they will understand!!!

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    • ravinginfidel
      Posted on April 23, 2012 at 6:24pm

      I’m sure these same people would sign a petition to outlaw the dangerous chemical compound, oxygen dihydride, which is known to kill hundreds if not thousands every year.

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    • Twobyfour
      Posted on April 23, 2012 at 7:35pm

      Oxygen dihydride is my favorite drug. I mix it with 100% alcohol, 1:0.66, it is less dangerous that way.

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    • WeekendAtBernankes
      Posted on April 23, 2012 at 9:37pm

      Yeah ’cause the previous generations ran the country so much better. Yep, it‘s these stupid young people that got us into the mess we’re in now.

      Think, people.

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    • NHwinter
      Posted on April 24, 2012 at 10:54am

      BehindTheMouth – the solution is easy – change the voting age back to 21. Especially today, our college kids are not mature enough to vote!!!!! College is only party time now. With the exception of a few.

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  • DearDonkey
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 3:45pm

    Here is the video from last year. They asked the same question. Last year, not a single student would sign it. This year the students appear to be a little more dumbed down.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOyaJ2UI7Ss

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    • mils
      Posted on April 23, 2012 at 3:57pm

      how do you think this would go over in China..China..a nation that is smart enough to have us by the short hairs..maybe we should try to up educational power ,
      dumb

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    • ProbIemSoIver
      Posted on April 23, 2012 at 4:01pm

      Pathetic Losers that agree with learning curves, redistribution, hate crimes and the like.

      Lets redistribute everything:

      Let‘s mandate that you must give a deed to a room in you house to a needy family and be finacially obligated to make that room accessible with it’s own entrance and faciliies.

      Let’s all have to sell our cars and all get the same vehicle, because it is not fair that a person that worked hard gets to drive a mercedes and your lazy @$$ has to ride a beat up scooter.

      When you go through the checkout stand for groceries, let’s seize a portion of it to give to a person that seems to have less money for food and items.

      Let the Bank seize part of your bank account because a person came in there today, in “need”.

      Let‘s redistribute a winning team’s points sometimes, so the other team can take a come from behind victory.

      If we are going to play this redistribute game right, then I demand 1/7000000000th of the governments assets, the Rothchild’s assets, I want my share of Rockerfeller’s, the IMF’s, Oprah’s, Bills Gate’s and infinitum. Give me 1/7000000000th of ALL the World’s Assets !!!!!!!

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    • ChiefGeorge
      Posted on April 23, 2012 at 4:38pm

      @probsolver.

      These things are not that far fetched!

      A university told the students not to celebrate their acceptance into the Ivy league school they applied for because it may upset others who did not get accepted.. No high fives, hugging etc they said!

      Yea! We are there! Would not want someone to actually feel left out in an ALL inclusive America. This is their first glimpse of reality and the school knows it.

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  • ProbIemSoIver
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 3:39pm

    I tell people everyday about HAARP and Chemtrails. I have researched those two subjects in depth. They are fact !!!!!

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  • MammalOne
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 3:39pm

    Hilarious. I’m going to bring this up with the ISO on campus.

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    • hatchetjob
      Posted on April 23, 2012 at 5:04pm

      I thought you were still in middle school.

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    • MammalOne
      Posted on April 23, 2012 at 7:54pm

      I teach at a university but I do mentor middle school students.

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  • jdog777
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 3:39pm

    I think we should redistribute the college professors tenure to those who don’t have tenure, so that they can have a chance.

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    • Taquoshi
      Posted on April 23, 2012 at 3:51pm

      Oooo. I like it, I like it! How about smoothing out the pay scale so the T.A.s and the grad students get the same pay as the professors, while you are at it?

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    • COFemale
      Posted on April 23, 2012 at 6:17pm

      Oohh I love that. I am an adjunct who won’t be teaching in the summer because it goes to all the full-time staff. You got my vote. LOL

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  • tzion
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 3:39pm

    I‘ll admit there are problems with many college courses’ grading systems: this isn’t one of them. The main problem, in my opinion, is the overuse of bell curve grading systems. For those who don’t understand what that is, it essentially means a professor walks into class on the first day and says approximately how many students will get A’s, B’s, etc. They do this by giving exams they know most students won’t pass normally and then distribute the grades based on how everyone did relative to the average grade.

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    • Inlightofthings
      Posted on April 23, 2012 at 4:53pm

      TZION…
      that’s a bit different as students are awarded grades based on the top performers. This is different in that the top performers will relinquish some of their GPA to bring the bottom dwellers up from the cellar.

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    • COFemale
      Posted on April 23, 2012 at 6:19pm

      That is bull crap. Tell me which colleges do this? I can tell you I don’t grade on a curve at all.

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  • lessoneleg
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 3:36pm

    Students can reflect on the value of “their marks”, because their marks have a meaning to them. Money has meaning to their parents. But the full impact of wages hasn’t really sunk in yet. But students do have a big deal interest in their marks.
    When it comes to complex ideas, students can’t connect the dots. It’s why social activists pick on impressionable students with BS. It’s why the OWS types really go after young kids with supporting leftist stuff. why not? the message being said is get something for nothing. Wouldn’t you favor getting something from someone else. Dipping into someone else’s pay stub, or taking it right out of their wallet. OWS types believe its a redistribution of wealth.
    Now, turn it around and take from the hard working students, the higher your marks the more redistribution of marks is removed to give to the massive number of marginal students. Hit ‘em in their study books.
    that ain’t fair! It’s my marks. I worked hard for them. Geeee, I thought it was about fairness, and bringing up the lessor peoples of society.
    Nope. What comes around goes around.

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    • ChiefGeorge
      Posted on April 23, 2012 at 4:41pm

      This is why getting good grades is now also coming under attack! Its in the Agenda 21 program. Where the facts really don’t matter but concensus does.

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  • ProbIemSoIver
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 3:36pm

    Ideological subversion. A part of the Communist Manifesto. Steal a generation of American Youth by indoctrination.

    I wake up every morning, looking foward to destroying the Global Elite’s Agenda in the Information WAR !!!

    These 2 videos Reverse the Brainwashing:

    This has had over 90,000 hits in 12 hours. DO YOUR PART !!!!
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ-4gnNz0vc

    This is also an eye opener and perspective changer:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RewUP-Fdhqk

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  • PJ3
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 3:27pm

    Actually Carthage College is located in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Bordering Lake Michigan

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    • von der Recht
      Posted on April 23, 2012 at 4:00pm

      Looking at the quality and relative maturity of the students at a Wisconsin college leaves me…more than ever…worried about the future of our once great country. They looked like juniors….at a high school.

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  • wboehmer
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 3:21pm

    Unlike with this experiment, we have no petition to sign in favor of or against redistribution.

    Instead, we have elections.

    Come November, VOTE THE REDISTRIBUTIONISTS OUT – especially, the redistributionist-in-chief!

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    • MittensKittens
      Posted on April 23, 2012 at 3:31pm

      That’s classic, you can’t hit a student in the pocket book, but now they’ll know how it feels…“I worked hard for those grades” PLEASSSEEEEEEE!

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  • ComradeAdam
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 3:15pm

    I’d like to see more of this line of questioning with the liberal college professors.

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    • RebelPatriot
      Posted on April 24, 2012 at 1:22am

      I like to see the Senator from the state of Mississippi stand up and tell the Senator from Virginia that they need to redistribute the wealth they made from government contracts to Mississipppi in order to make it fair.

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  • cemerius
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 3:15pm

    Wow! Just what I want is that heart surgeon that depended on a GPA handout to graduate…or better yet that engineer responsible for building that tall bridge I am driving over with my family?…..YAY! let’s continue to celebrate mediocrity here in America!!! I think the “cattle” need to be culled!!!

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  • Its Gonna Getcha
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 3:15pm

    This is one of my all-time favorite “man on the street” arguments. This administration isn’t helping those who feel they “don’t have a fair share” in the least bit. He’s only perpetuating it.

    He has that damn podium & microphone, and the messiah mystique. All he has to do is say something like, “Maybe you aren‘t progressing in life because you’re too busy comparing yourself with others. Comparing your intelligence. Comparing your material wealth. Maybe you should reach out to God. You may realthrough Him we all have an equal chance to prosper without waiting for man-made solutions which will always fall short.”

    Don’t you think a “normal” man in his position would take the opportunity to uplift people that way? But he doesn’t. All he knows is hate. All he knows is managing to read the prompter and refer to us as “folks” instead of “pions”, which is what he’s really thinking.

    What I wouldn’t give to see him injected with truth serum and allowed to reveal his true intentions.

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  • lessoneleg
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 3:13pm

    Funny when you turn the value of something around that means something to one person they now reflect on what the turn value it means in the whole picture.
    The OWS types keep demanding that those that have, must give up their money, and redistribute it to the without peoples. Interesting.
    Students who aren’t into making money yet, believe that its fair to assume that those that do have, should give up their hard worked for money, so that they, Students, can have free entitlements and more money or tuition fees covered.
    Now, twist it around. Those students, you know, those students who don’t work hard, but party really hard. Well, their marks aren’t too great. And getting into university or college is hard with bad marks. Especially hard to get into preferred programs.
    So, let’s — redistribute- the marks. You know, fair share in a grade of someone getting an 80% to 90% grade. Let’s take away 5% or 7% and top up the lesser kids. They’ve had it tough you know. It’s hard to be popular and get to all those late night get togethers. Especially so when a term paper is due.
    Let’s redistribute the wealth of Grades. Let’s see the reaction of those hard working students getting their pockets picked by scammers and freeloaders in the School Systems.

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    • ChiefGeorge
      Posted on April 23, 2012 at 4:44pm

      Lets be charitable with what we have earned when we decide its appropriate to send money to someone or some organization in need instead of the government taking it from me to give to whomever they decide. OWS knows special interests exist! DO they really believe the concept of taking someone elses money is actually going to make it back their way? Seems very naive at best.

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    • right-wing-waco
      Posted on April 23, 2012 at 4:49pm

      Yea, an along with each grade there could be a “grade stub” or statement of redistribution like a “pay stub” showing the taxes.

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    • From Virginia
      Posted on April 23, 2012 at 8:42pm

      The thing I hate so much about the redistribution thing is that if you are working hard for your money and someone is forcing you with the full force of the government (the barrel of a gun) to hand over your income to those that choose not to work – aren’t you essentially a slave?

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  • bumfuzeled
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 3:11pm

    They need to ask the professors if They are willing to pool their salaries then take what is given to them from the pool administered by the students.

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    • obfuscatenot
      Posted on April 23, 2012 at 3:24pm

      That would be a fun experiment wouldn’t it! Maybe share tenure? Fairness across the board.

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  • nelbert
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 3:07pm

    The professor’s reaction was priceless!

    I am shocked by how many students were OK with the idea. This was funny but at the same time scary!

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    • Findalis
      Posted on April 23, 2012 at 3:24pm

      If you check the students you will find:

      The students with the high GPAs were against this idea.
      The students with the low GPAs were for this idea.
      And I wonder if that Professor is in favor of stripping the wealth from the 1% or is the rare one who is a Professor?

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  • blanco5
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 3:03pm

    The ones that bothered me were the ones who DID have a high GPA and were willing to sacrifice theirs for the lower. Is that b/c they no there‘s no hope of getting a job in the white black prez islama’s world? Or are they just that stupid?

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    • blanco5
      Posted on April 23, 2012 at 3:07pm

      “know”

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    • bumfuzeled
      Posted on April 23, 2012 at 3:10pm

      We can only hope those willing to donate their grades were being charitable. Maybe the next time the contest could include the option to share your grade or force all 10% to share grades. That will sort the charitable ones from the socialists.

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    • blanco5
      Posted on April 23, 2012 at 3:19pm

      Excellent, BUMFUZELED!

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    • chazmo
      Posted on April 23, 2012 at 3:41pm

      plus a lot of times people sign stuff just because.. oh alright i’ll sign it get lost now.. or man if I sign this that hot girl may like me.. ect.. Penn and Teller did a similar thing with banning water or Di-hydrogen Monoxide(H2O). Everyone signed but had no idea what they were signing.

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  • lisa2994
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 3:01pm

    Same here with all of us working Americans!!!! Now you know kiddos! Learn something!!! lol

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  • 4dogsandagun
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 2:58pm

    Amazing that when it comes to something these idealistic students work hard for they don’t their grades redistributed and/or share their hard earned grades to help another student. If only this logic would follow them into the real world.

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  • SheriS
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 2:57pm

    The college from which I graduated is in the same “sports” conference as Carthage which is a great school in Wisconsin! Most of these kids have the right idea of redistribution of grades but I wonder if they feel the same way about redistribution of wealth when they are the ones paying real taxes! Cathage is a pretty expensive school to get into with high tuition as well. Great story, Blaze!

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  • Mess23
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 2:56pm

    Sounds like there are a couple “future” Conservitives in the group.

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  • right-wing-waco
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 2:53pm

    I work hard for my money, get lost Omama.

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  • Itsjusttim
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 2:48pm

    It only makes sense that if the sum of the results of higher learning and better grades which is more money is redistributed, that then the grades should be redistributed amongst everyone. And if all those things are going to be redistributed, then the power should be taken away from the mighty, and power should be redistributed to all.

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    • RebelPatriot
      Posted on April 24, 2012 at 1:33am

      The power has been redistributed to all. It’s called a Republic. Capitalism along with the freedom of our Republic has given more people the opportunity to become wealthy than any other combination of economic system and government on the planet.

      It will never make the poor wealthy, but it does give the poor an opportunity to make themselves wealthier.

      Socialism on the other hand does not make the poor wealthier it makes the middle class less wealthy.

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  • 4dogsandagun
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 2:46pm

    Isn’t it amazing that ONLY when they might be affected by giving someone part of something they worked very hard for do they object to the concept of redistribution? If only the concept of logic would follow through on their whole thought process, there might be hope for us if it did.

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  • NHwinter
    Posted on April 23, 2012 at 2:42pm

    My question is – are they intelligent enough, or have critical thinking skills enough to understand the concept of redistribution when it also applies to their money????? I have my doubts.

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    • right-wing-waco
      Posted on April 23, 2012 at 2:56pm

      I have less doubts than you seem to. The left, and those that are liberal do not equate money, (wealth), with work or expending ones life to get that wealth.

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    • lukerw
      Posted on April 23, 2012 at 4:29pm

      To Standardize Education… Facts are emphasized for Easy & Compatible Testing & Grading… which abandons Concepts & the application extensions. This leaves Students… fit for Production Work… but unfit for Leadership, Command, nor Management… and denies the skills for Invention. Thus, we rely upon “Nature’s God” to provide Thinking People!

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