It’s been 35 years already, stop the debate! You guys are making students just a little nervous!

Friday’s Northern Star reported on the university’s indecision — for three and a half decades — over whether to add pluses and minuses to teachers’ repertoire of grading possibilities.

There’s nothing wrong with the current system, and there’s nothing wrong with the much talked-about pluses/minuses system.

They each have drawbacks: right now, teachers are sometimes caught up in how to give borderline students a fair grade, and under the new system some students could see GPAs fall if they get an A- over an A. At the same time, students who put forth a top effort will get the recognition of the elusive A+.

But that’s not the point.

Other universities operate on a plus-minus scale, so it’s proven that while it may disrupt or confuse students during the transition, the system still works.

So just do it. Or don’t. Whatever, stop the suspense.

Either way, students will gripe for a few moments and adjust. It’s what college kids do: As people in transition between adolescence and that elusive thing called “adulthood,” our lives already entail a bit of improvisation.

Otherwise, there’s probably a much better way to spend so much time. You’d think that would have been figured out 30 years ago.