My contempt for administrators who come up with such foolishness knows no bounds. I also find this one hard to believe. It’s not enough that our institutions of higher education indoctrinate their students, they have to infantilize them as well.

Get this: The University of Michigan’s College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA) is seeking to avoid mental health issues in the incoming freshmen class by abolishing the reporting of first-semester grades. Students will still earn letter grades, see, and receive instructor feedback in every course, but those grades will remain “internal,” as in “secret,”and will not appear on official transcripts, and won’t affect first-semester GPAs. This is part of a pilot program to reduce student stress and deal with a “mental health crisis”.

Increasingly, I do not understand the thought processes of the school administrators who come up with such crack-brain schemes. These are young adults being treated as children. Such coddling retards character and emotional development, and has dubious pedagogical value for students in middle school. College? I have a sneaking suspicion this scheme has DEI roots, but I can’t confirm that. Whatever the reason, it is an excellent way to raise a generation of weenies.

If you can’t handle the “stress” of college, go to a less competitive college, or a trade school. Life is stressful. Deal with it.