Colleges are ditching letter grades this spring, but not all students are on board with ‘ungrading’

Niko Savas was trying his best to concentrate on his online classes at Georgetown Law, despite the exhaustion, fever and aches caused by his bout with covid-19.

But the physical sickness wasn’t the coronavirus’s only toll, he said. He worried for his parents, who also have covid-19, he said, and about the possibility that he unwittingly infected others before he knew he was sick.