Monday, May 19, 2008

One proud wife

I'm taking the risking of embarrassing my husband by posting this. However, it's a risk worth taking because I am so very proud of him. He consistently gets good grades in all of his classes. In January he took a block course in Biblical Counseling. He has been waiting for 4 months to see what grade he got in this class.
Today he got an email from the grader. He was preparing to post grades and was anticipating a lot of phone calls from students as a result. So before he posted the grades he sent out an email of explanation. Here is an excerpt from that email:

"Because Dr. Powlison is stingy with A’s and much more liberal with B’s, C’s, and D’s, the following statement is meant to help you understand how your final grade was calculated.

The goal in grading is to have most students get a “B” of some stripe, a handful of students who consistently rise to the top of the class to get some type of a “A”, and students who consistently did poor work, had missing assignments, and/or incomplete work to get C’s D’s and F’s. When most of you look at your grades you will see something between a “B-” and a “B+.” What this means is that you completed your assignments and did well in doing so."


Later he describes that you can earn an A, "If your work was unusually insightful, penetrating, engaging, and thorough."
I'm sure you can see where this is going. My husband got an A!!!!
I'm proud of you, Ben!

9 comments:

Unknown said...

Way to go, Ben! And way to go Kelly and Owen in supporting Ben's education!

Kara said...

We are proud of you, too!

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Anonymous said...

Such a good boy!!

Pam said...

Great Job Ben!!

CC said...

Congratulations!!!! That's so great for Ben, hard work does pay off!!!!

Jenny LaBo said...

Yeah Ben!
Good Job!

Trail Rated said...

Congratulations, I'm curious, Ben, if they took a nouthetic approach.

Ben said...

Thanks everyone for the nice words.

Jack,
They would not call it "nouthetic counseling", but rather "biblical counseling". Of course, nouthetic counseling strives to be explicitly biblical, and there would be a lot of similarities between the approach of our class and NANC, for instance. The professor was David Powlison, who is from your part of the country; he is just outside of Philly, but in PA. He is part of an organization called "CCEF", the Christian Counseling and Education Foundation, which includes other well-known writers/counselors like Tedd Tripp, Paul David Tripp, and Ed Welch, all of whom have written commendable books. I think that they would see themselves as a little bit to the right of NANC, if that's possible, but I don't fully understand the distinction. I'll look into it and let you know.

Hope you and your family are well!