pay for grades

[joanna bujes]

At 09:02 PM 04/16/2002 -0400, Nathan Newman wrote:
>However, when I visited Romania back in 1990, I talked to college students
>about the education system and they told me the privileged classes solved
>this formal problem by bribing profs for grades.  Since pay for teachers was
>so lousy, the system had degenerated into a complete pay-for-grade system
>where students were graded essentially on how much their parents could pay.
>Like many things, Romania had the most toxic results of deformities of "real
>existing socialism."

Sounds like Stanford. Of course, there, it's a flat bribe/tuition system.

Joanna