Loyola Law School has had problems with graduates not having high enough GPAs to land the lucrative jobs they promised in return for their tuition.  So what did they do?  They lowered the standards. You know, because we need more attorneys out there that think they’re better than the little people.

And apparently just letting students suffer for not working hard enough to earn the high marks was completely unacceptable.  Oh no!  In the Age of Hope! and Change! that’s just not the way you do things.  Now the right solution is to hand out higher grades arbitrarily.  Again, punishing those that actually earned their high marks.

Oh, that’s right!  They didn’t mention that part in the story.  It’s all about the average performer that can’t land an interview at the prestigious law firm.  They don’t mention the hard worker that busted their butt to get those grades.  You know, the one that will present their transcript to one of those prestigious firms only to be laughed at because everyone knows it is an inflated GPA anyway.

And it’s not just Loyola.

In the last two years, at least 10 law schools have deliberately changed their grading systems to make them more lenient. These include law schools like New York University and Georgetown, as well as Golden Gate University and Tulane University, which just announced the change this month.

It’s an empty promise anyway.  An inflated GPA is not going to land some fresh law school grad a job that doesn’t exist.  and there are fewer jobs to be had in law just like every other profession currently.

Oh well!  If all else fails, they can offer their services to the litigious Naked Cowboy.