THE FRUSTRATION LEVEL RISES. Must be exam week.

At Rate Your Students, a gripe about the obligatory legal content of course outlines.

The syllabus has morphed into a document more closely resembling a contract than a source of information on the course and a part of my time and is spent checking for loopholes when I compose a new one. I'm spending a disproportional amount of energy for a small percent of students. The insult to injury is that most students don't even read their syllabus.

That's despite the poster (because these posts are anonymous, there is no way to document the claim) giving a for-credit syllabus quiz.

Arnold Kling is supposed to be thinking about income inequality, but he gets off some gripes.

I think I understand what is going on at the top of the income distribution. I see stable, affluent families acting like machines for cranking out wealthy, assortively-mating kids.

I think I understand what is going on at the bottom of the income distribution. I see very dysfunctional people having very dysfunctional kids, out of wedlock.

In between? Not so clear. What is going to happen to my writing-challenged students at George Mason? Are they headed for middle-class jobs in nursing or social work, or for something worse?