Group Work = Group Think

able and confident students did not want to be graded with the group, but on their own merits, effort and grasp of the subject matter. They owned their A's or B's. And, for the honest, their C's and D's. How phony to give gold medals, oscars and world series trophies, if you are a progressive idealog. America was, and should ever be a meritocracy. All we can do, in the effort for equity, is to make no hindrance to a person's honest pursuit of happiness, at no other person's cost. We should be moving away from, not towards the encouragement of parasitism. But parasitism can be cushy and can get you the parasite's votes. That is why we are a Democratic Republic based on the notion of unalienable rights, rather than a pure Democracy....