George Bush, Margaret Mead, and Grade Inflation

Matthew Snyder matthew at pobox.com
Fri Feb 15 13:40:50 PST 2002


Kelley forwarded:
> "So Margaret Mead commuted up from New York and taught intro cultural.
> But Mead didn't like grading, so she gave the class all As.
>
> "And one A became enshrined as the only A on the undergraduate
> transcript of the new President of the United States, George W Bush."

Not that it's of much importance, but these two sources claim it was a B+

http://www.dke.org/bushyaletimes.html http://www.nd.edu/~observer/11032000/Scene/0.html

Matthew



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