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[Kriminal99]

A lot of teachers talk about how much studying they expect students to do, or judge student behaviors and use that as justification for manipulating their grade. However the line of thinking behind this seems faulty.

Imagine you work in a business environment, and develop a system for dealing with a problem that seems to work pretty well. You become attached to this system and get warm fuzzies up your spine from operating it. You trust it so much, that you don't even bother to look at how effective and efficient it is at achieving your goals.

This is an inefficient behavior and directly applies to "being a good student". If a particular student doesn't need to study in order to get A's in their classes, it is simply silly and wrong for them to adhere to some teacher's standard of how much they should study.

Additionally, as a result of believing in this invalid reasoning teachers often implement ways of trying to fool students into believing the class is easier than it is, and then keeping that first unrepresentative grade as a significant portion of the student's final grade.