MAJOR PSYCHIATRIC THREAT – AT 8:31 A.M. ET:   There is serious psychological danger to students at Johns Hopkins University.  Read all about it.  The oppressor is near.  From the College Fix: 

Letting employers and graduate schools know your grades is an attack on “marginalized” students.

That’s the claim by “two dozen student groups” who are up in arms over Johns Hopkins University’s plan to stop hiding freshmen first-semester grades from their transcripts starting with 2017’s entering class, The Baltimore Sun reports.

A handful of other colleges have similar policies, but according to the JHU committee that recommended the end of the 45-year-old “covered grades” policy – transcripts say either “satisfactory” or “unsatisfactory” – it’s harmful to students:

Hopkins administrators say covered grades might give students a chance to goof off, put off learning good study skills, or cram difficult courses into their first semester.

“The students who we attract to Hopkins are highly accomplished and academically strong, but we do recognize that they need support in transitioning to the Hopkins environment,” said Kevin Shollenberger, the vice provost for student affairs. “We feel that the best way to help them transition is to give them the study skills that help them do well here.

“We’re concerned that the covered grades may delay them in seeking that type of help.”

Student groups say that if the world knows their grades for their first semester at Hopkins, they’ll be “stressed out” and have even worse mental-health problems.

And, of course, it’s racist:

“A lot of kids come here from private schools,” said Chase Alston, a rising senior from Waldorf studying public health. “They’re better equipped to handle coming to school.

“Students from marginalized populations, they may need more time to figure out what resources work for them and what study habits work for them.”

COMMENT:  I assume that counselors will be made available to handle the trauma.  While handling said trauma, maybe the counselors could introduce these damaged souls to the immigrant experience – where kids from homes where English wasn't even spoken were thrown in with privileged kids from independent boarding schools, and often beat the pants off them. 

What a mess our colleges have become.  What of the future of this country?

June 1, 2016