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Many people are applying the standard of C's being bad because they interfere with being able to get a post secondary education, or a graduate degree.
First, there are extensive opportunities for students with mediocre grades to attend college. The US has an extensive junior college system and has many more four year colleges that are accessible to the average student than selective Universities or Elite schools.
Yes, these selective and Elite schools use grades as one standard for admission, because they want only the best students. This does not mean that students who do not meet the standards for such institutions are bad students, or that grades that don't meet their criteria are bad grades, it just means that they are not outstanding.
Why exclude a middle area that is neither good nor bad?
As a student, I would have been very disappointed at getting a C if I'd ever gotten any, and I considered a B on a paper or a test a wakeup call that I needed to work harder. Being disappointed with a C doesn't mean I think it was a bad grade, though. It just means that I didn't want to be average. Average, ordinary, mediocre, these aren't bad things. Especially if we raise expcetations for what it takes to be average, if we require more for a person to be average.
Gilda
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