Grading system

Fairness is often in the eye of the beholder. My favorite exercise to provoke a discussion of fairness is to suggest a grading system for the course in which students with A’s, B+’s, and B’s at the end of the course will have points taken away from them and redistributed to those with C’s,D’s, and F’s. In the end everyone receives a C+. (There is always at least one student who says,“I’ll take it!”) Outline the issues involved. Compare this to the issues involved in income