At this university, grades for freshmen have been dropped and replaced with a system of emojis.
“Mental health is important, and the crisis of freshmen with mental health issues is something we are tackling by removing things that would contribute negatively. By removing things that make them feel stressed out and then bad about themselves, we would like to see our freshmen feeling better and therefore have better mental health”, said a school administrator.
When asked if the emojis represented a scale which effectively reproduced a value hierarchy (for instance, thumbs-up means great, sad-face means not good), the administrator explained:
“Not at all. Each emoji is different from but not better than another emoji.”
At this time, the emoji not-grading system consists of:
🐵🧇🛖🎲🔖🧸🫚🪼🦭
Human-face emojis are purposely avoided as more than 1 students test groups expressed the human-bias as a major social concern as it relates to their well-being.
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