Grade inflation has become more and more common as time has progressed. Grade

inflation is a way to make the student feel better about their particular class. If a student feels that a class is easier, then they will be more motivated to do the work. It comes with the "Millenial" title because a lot of the latest generation expects everything to be handed to them on a silver platter. All of the people in this world are being given free money due to the covid crisis, and are allowed to stay home as long as they feel the need. Imagine doing a similar thing in the college world. This is where grade inflation plays a huge role. Grade inflation has its perks such as the student being more happy, feeling more accomplished, and having a better view. On the other hand, Grade inflation is a joke. Grade inflation causes a lot of problems like a false sense of knowledge, a bad work ethic, and sloppy work. It sets the students up for failure in the long run.

To start off this essay, this first paragraph will cover a false sense of knowledge. Knowledge is power, once stated by Francis Bacon, is a really powerful message. This is a great message to apply to daily life. In today's society, there are a lot of ignorant people who have no clue what they are doing and go through the motions. This is seen everywhere from the workplace to school. Professors all over the country have leniency in many situations where it is best to be brutally honest. In Doesn't Anybody Get A C Anymore, Phil the author talks about how he gave a student a better grade on a below-average performance only because he was generally prepared and took part in class discussions (Primack 110). This is the worst thing that can be done for a student paying tons of money for education. The more freebies students are given the less they will actually learn because they will slack off due to the good grade. This creates a world full of people who do not actually know what they are doing. Ignorance can cause many issues to have school as well. Students who move on to a workplace and have no clue what is going on when they get there can be an issue. That creates a hassle for the employer and other employees and creates a holdup in the process.

That brings me to my next point, Grade inflation creates a bad work ethic. If teachers continue to give away easy grades, then students will realize that they can get away with less effort. If a student can get away with very little effort and have more time for fun and drinking, then they are going to take the easy road most of the time. This does not only affect them inside of school but in the real world as well. Setting a student up for failure is the last thing that needs to be done especially when the focus of a teacher is to help others be better. As stated in Doesn't Anybody Get a C Anymore, Mr. Primack talks about an encounter with a student via email complaining about a low grade. Primack talks about how a B grade in the late 1960s was a great accomplishment (Primack 110). This student doesn't realize that he was lucky to have gotten a B because his work did not meet the full requirements of the criteria. Although complaining about the grade, the grade he received was more than likely satisfying enough that they still continue to slack off on future assignments. Students who are around hard-working environments tend to have more grit and self-pride. It is hard to be prideful about being handed something for almost free. This is a big problem in the world today.

For the third and final part of the argument, Grade inflation creates sloppy work. As talked about at the end of the last paragraph, many students are happy with just getting by. These are the same students that will soon be working in the real world. Inflating a bad work ethic students grades creates a sloppy and lazy person because their academic integrity is a false sense of knowledge. If a student who should pass a class with a C gets a B or higher, then that will cause them to realize they can do the bare minimum and still do well. This is not the kind of people we want to fill our world with. This creates sloppiness in other places than schoolwork. This translates to real-life and jobs because that is the only that the person was taught. Imagine a student who graduates a college with a business degree and moves into the accounting field. Accounting is not the easiest field to go into if you are not numbers-savvy. That student for say did not try in class and cheated their way through school, and now they are trusted to do people's taxes. This is not the kind of person that is wanted when dealing with such complicated subjects, because all it takes is a few mess-ups here and there now the taxes are filed wrong. All of the schools such as Harvard and Brown University are just as bad as any other colleges with grade inflation. These are the schools that everybody looks at in awe of their academic excellence and most of it is just due to grade inflation. That is behind the scenes and is something they don't want the outsiders to know. Doesn't Anybody Get a C Anymore talks about how Harvard declined to release more current data and comment about the article (Primack 111). This is a terrible thing to see from such a great college because it shows they are hiding something from the general public.

In conclusion, The most recent generation in my opinion is very soft and underworked. This essay is about grade inflation, but I would like to talk about the times back when my parents

grew up. My dad used to work twelve to fifteen hour days seven days a week when I was born to keep our family up and going while my mother worked and took care of me. Just let that settle in, because I know zero millennials that have never seen hard work in their lives. I am also a young millennial, but I grew up around hard work. With school, baseball, and working on a farm I had always been busy growing up. I feel that this has helped me become the dedicated person that I am today. We need more professors who push students to the max and don't give away freebies because I look at people around me complaining because something is too hard. I just laugh and think man do you have it rough try going to school from eight to noon and having baseball practice from one to six or seven now that is hard. The bottom line is that grade inflation is not the brightest thing ever made up, and we need more teachers that will hold students accountable for their wrongdoings. This world needs more people who are willing to do just that because if we do not school and workplaces will be in bad shape thirty years from now.