Social justice warrior at Arizona State University insists students of color shouldn’t have to be able to write in order to get good grades

In order to reinforce the “positive racial identity” of black students, an academic at Arizona State University (ASU) has written a book that calls on schools to “destroy grading.”

Grading students’ work, especially in the area of writing, is a form of “white supremacy” that must be abolished in order for black students to “achieve” at the same level as white students.

Asao Inoue, who works as associate dean for Academic Affairs, Equity, and Inclusion within the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts, contends that merit should not be a consideration when dealing with black students’ academic performance. “Anti-racism,” he says, simply does not allow for it.

In his book Labor-Based Grading Contracts: Building Equity and Inclusion in the Compassionate Writing Classroom, Inoue attempts to make the case that a student’s efforts, rather than actual performance, are what should be graded.

If it were up to Inoue, final course grades would be determined “purely by the labor students complete, not by any judgments of the quality of their writing.”

“While the qualities of student writing is [sic] still at the center of the classroom and feedback, it has no bearing on the course grade,” Inoue writes.

“Why take our judgments of quality out of the tabulation of course grades and.....'

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