DoYeon Kim
Professor Danielle Santos
College WritingⅡ
15 June 2016
Is Grading F’s Good for Students? Education has been considered as one of the most important and necessary factors for human beings. Parents, teachers, principals, and school boards are always concerned about the educational system and try to make better learning conditions for students. Most people agree with the current academic system; however, some people strongly argue that there are some issues with the system, such as grade inflation and lack of improvement of the educational system. In the article “What Our Education System Needs Is More F’s,” by Carl Singleton, the author begins by pointing out the problems of the current education system of America. He argued that many professors tend to over-mark their students’ grades even though some of the students are ineligible for a passing grade. Singleton suggested giving F’s to students is more important for the educational system rather than investing more money in schools or providing better teaching. According to his argument, low-quality teaching has become widespread these days because of low-quality teachers who don’t completely understand the required materials they are teaching in their classrooms. He asserted the quality of education will not be improved unless teachers give F’s to students who need a certain time to understand all of the materials; providing higher salaries or making complex procedures of certification won’t be much help the students or the teachers. Singleton said the problem is that the school system has ignored those students who unearned grades over 2 decades; they got B’s instead of C’s, C’s instead of D’s, and D’s instead of F’s. If the students went their home with F’s, their parents might have realize the seriousness of their children’s academic problem and considered some measures like pulling