{"id":1780860,"date":"2022-12-20T06:07:41","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T11:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1780860"},"modified":"2022-12-20T06:34:02","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T11:34:02","slug":"latest-campus-leftist-demand-a-grades-for-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/latest-campus-leftist-demand-a-grades-for-everyone\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest Campus Leftist Demand: A Grades for Everyone"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flatest-campus-leftist-demand-a-grades-for-everyone%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1780860&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/article_Screenshot_2022-12-17_at_22.30.04.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"advertisment pb-5 text-center\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col\">\n<div class=\"advertisment pb-5 text-center\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Students at the private New York City liberal arts college The New School (TNS) are demanding that the professors give every student an A grade for the semester as part of a rebellion against the school&#8217;s leadership.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The dispute began when students occupied the school&#8217;s TNS University Center on December 8th as a show of solidarity for faculty members who had gone on strike to demand better wages and healthcare benefits.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Despite the strike\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UAW7902\/status\/1601780812986585088\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">ending<\/a>\u00a0on December 10th, students then decided to publish their own set of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1tbrKZNP4gbpFA3aRTcpMO6aPQNSSPiuNkCtkks65Irc\/edit#\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">demands<\/a>\u00a0including A\u2019s for all students, the resignation of the school&#8217;s entire leadership and the disbandment of the Board of Trustees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe demand that every student receives a final course grade of A as well as the removal of I\/Z grades for the Fall 2022 semester,\u201d the demand letter read. \u201cAttendance shall have no bearing on course grades.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The students are also seeking to reform the school&#8217;s entire leadership structure by creating a system of \u201ccommunity self-governance&#8221; in a proposal that has over 1,500 signatories.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis vote, the successful founding act of this coalition, expressed that we have no confidence in this current administration and the trustees,\u201d the demand letter continues. \u201cWe rather have confidence in ourselves as ONE NEW SCHOOL to continue the fight for returning the university to community self-governance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Among their other demands include\u00a0reimbursed tuition to compensate for the time lost during the strike, a freeze on tuition fees till 2028, a forgiving of all fines accumulated by students during the strike, free course materials and a more lenient approach to missing classes for medical or personal reasons.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They are also asking that the president\u2019s house \u201cbe treated as a communal property of [TNS] and used for purposes determined by the non-administrative TNS community\u201d and that \u201call future members of the President\u2019s Leadership Team be elected by a majority vote that is open to the non-administrative TNS community, who retain the right to recall that appointment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The school, which costs around $44,000 per year to attend, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_New_School_people#Alumni\">boasts<\/a> a long list of famous alumni including past presidents of Israel and Namibia, actor Jesse Eisenberg, playwright Tennessee Williams, and the economist\u00a0Franklin D. 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