Originally Posted by ultramarina
The obsession is with grades. Purely grades. Not learning.

Grades are the currency of the educational economy. The way in which valuation is determined.

Without grades, the educational value of students would be unknown and unknowable. Teachers would be unable to properly allocate their student resources in the educational marketplace and the schools would become academically unprofitable.

This would eventually lead to severe academic distortions of scarce student resources and entire school systems would collapse.