Don't like your grade? SUE.

[AGDee]

Our thoughts exactly. When he was questioned on it by one student, the student received a reply that went something like this:

"Do you really want me to get out of my recliner, put down my beer, put aside my Playboy magazine and go to my computer to give your paper a second read through? I will use a sharper pencil and find more of your errors and I won't be as forgiving of them this time. Please tell me no."

I am trying very hard not to let this man stress me out, but he is IMPOSSIBLE.

[AGDLynn]

I would SOOO DEFINITELY COMPLAIN to the Dean and post it in the student newspaper if there is one.

[psusue]

I know what the title of this means, but every time I look at it I think "why do you have to come at me like that?"

[AGDee]

Originally Posted by AGDLynn

I would SOOO DEFINITELY COMPLAIN to the Dean and post it in the student newspaper if there is one.

The department chair has been notified. She told that student that she would wait for corroboration from more students. I'm going to see her at an auditors professional org meeting next week so I'm going to talk to her privately and clue her in to this clown.

[indygphib]

Originally Posted by AGDee

Our thoughts exactly. When he was questioned on it by one student, the student received a reply that went something like this:

"Do you really want me to get out of my recliner, put down my beer, put aside my Playboy magazine and go to my computer to give your paper a second read through? I will use a sharper pencil and find more of your errors and I won't be as forgiving of them this time. Please tell me no."

I am trying very hard not to let this man stress me out, but he is IMPOSSIBLE.

What an assclown! Please tell me this idiot emailed this response and the student who received it saved it somewhere. If this person didn't do so, have the school pull that message off the server and you've got some serious ammo against this jerk.

[tcsparky]

I am taking a statistics class. As I was looking at my grades so far this semester (the grades are posted online online in the Moodle for the course) I noticed that the Pre-Test grade was listed with a value beside it, and it appeared to count in the overall average. This didn't seem likely- the pretest was what we took before the course started, supposedly so the professor could see what we already knew about statistics. Silly me decided to ask the professor if the pretest was part of our average. Her answer: Yes.

So I made a 60% on the pretest, and am now spending the entire semester clawing my way up from an F. Not sure how this is fair. But I will wait until after final grades are posted to talk to the department chair about this. I don't want her being mad at me for questioning this to influence how she grades my stuff the rest of the semester.

[AGDee]

Originally Posted by indygphib

What an assclown! Please tell me this idiot emailed this response and the student who received it saved it somewhere. If this person didn't do so, have the school pull that message off the server and you've got some serious ammo against this jerk.

The student who received that message forwarded it to the department chair. He was freaking out last night though, worried, as tcsparky posted above, that there will be grade repercussions in the future because of it.

tcsparky: I would be upset if a pre-test like that was included in my grades also. unless she's going to somehow measure against it with the final to determine what you've learned over the course of the term. If you could get an A on the pre-test, then you didn't really need the class, right?

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Originally Posted by AGDee

The student who received that message forwarded it to the department chair. He was freaking out last night though, worried, as tcsparky posted above, that there will be grade repercussions in the future because of it.

tcsparky: I would be upset if a pre-test like that was included in my grades also. unless she's going to somehow measure against it with the final to determine what you've learned over the course of the term. If you could get an A on the pre-test, then you didn't really need the class, right?

I'm teaching a management class for the first time right now. There are so many things that I would love to change mid-stream, but what's on the syllabus is on the syllabus. For example, I accept late homework with a penalty of 10% per day. This was a bad move, because we discuss the homework in class on the day it is due, so students can listen to the discussion, take notes, and turn it in. So, it sucks, but all I can do is chalk it up to a learning experience, and fix it next time.