Grades

I feel it is extremely difficult to get around 30 people to agree on one thing without having a few people indifferent about a certain percentage. We all want to put in our input and at times there are so many people talking that can be difficult. I feel that there is a lot of impatience that goes along with this process as well. We don't want to figure this out so we are all waiting to be done with it. We are never all going to have the exact thoughts or feelings. I feel like participating was constructive in this exercise because I could get a feel for how others perceived my ideas and feelings about the grading system. We tried to act like a democracy and get everyones ideas and attempted to get their voices heard. The process is difficult because democracy is not fool proof and because our rules were so loose we were not sure what direction to think it. I believe this whole process gave our class a good learning experience and we are learning to be more hands on instead of just learning about things from a book. Overall, I think it made me learn a lot about minorities and have it is very difficult to go through getting everyone to agree on one thing.