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The average in a first year calculus class is a D/F before curving.
The article does not say the average grade in a first-year calculus class is D/F. It says a first midterm had a pre-curved D/F average.
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The San Francisco Standard opinion piece shown in the post makes a narrower claim than this summary does. Its wording is: professors “grade a first midterm with a pre-curved D/F average.” That refers to one exam, not the average grade in an entire first-year calculus class.
So the post changes the claim from one midterm’s pre-curve average to the class average overall, which is not what the article says.
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- I teach calculus at Berkeley. Some of my students can’t do middle school math
The people arguing this test-blind policy on television, in committee meetings, and in politics do not stand in front of 700 students three times a week or grade a first midterm with a pre-curved D/F average.