Jerk professors

[halfassedjediknight]

So I failed this 15 week course I was trying to take in 5 weeks because of my professors shortcomings. Supposedly, if we turn in our laboratory manual, and after its been graded, correct our mistakes and anything we might have missed, he would regrade it and give us credit for what we previously didnt get. and of course come the final grading period, he didnt keep his word and I failed by a damned half percent.

and to top it off, there was a grading curve. I got like a 68.5 percent (D+) and a C- would have been a 69%

sorry im just bitching.

[dannyboy420]

That sucks really, really hard. Sorry to hear it.

[il2k3]

dam that sucks. asshole professor!

[birdgirl73]

Is there an appeal process since he apparently didn't follow the regrading process he'd promised previously? Real sorry that happened, HAJK!

[Purple Banana]

When I was in a Human Growth and Development class, a college sophomore level class that I took while I was a senior in high school, I got a B on an assignment I needed some clarification on. The professor was a hardcore BAD kind of feminist, she only talked about women growth and development and all of our speakers (10 in all) were women. And she was nutso. Most of the class, all nursing students, got Bs or less. She called me up after class, and asked "Is there any reason why you didn't understand any of this? Do you have some kind of learning disability?" I don't, but she didn't even apologize.

I'm 17 years old and in this class, getting an A. What did SHE think?

[higher4hockey]

i had a website that rated professors, but it doesnt work anymore....fuck!

[birdgirl73]

What I hate at my school is when they think that because they're professors that means they can talk down to the lower-class students. That just because we haven't gotten through fourth year, graduated, and begun climbing the academic medical ranks we're somehow deserving of being talked to like we're in junior high. It says a lot about how teachers respect the lower ranks--and how secure they are themselves, I think--when they're able to treat students without condescending to them no matter what level they're on. I hate the heirarchy of academia. My school is three weeks away from starting, and I'm already dreading one of the most notorious second-year professors. I saw him talking to students last year, and it wasn't pretty.

[jdub61]

Either contact the professor and see if you can talk it out, do some sort of an appeal, or just accept that you shouldn't have put yourself in a position where you were on the fringe of failing anyway. Keep in mind, it's not his fault you failed. Be tactful if you try to talk to him or file an appeal.

[halfassedjediknight]

well birdie, im unaware of any appeal processes, so im not so sure about that. but there is a disclaimer stating that grades are irreversable after grades are recorded by the records keeper people, whoever they may be. so technically theres nothing i can do about it but send my professor a snotty email.

[pabloescobar209]

So I failed this 15 week course I was trying to take in 5 weeks because of my professors shortcomings. Supposedly, if we turn in our laboratory manual, and after its been graded, correct our mistakes and anything we might have missed, he would regrade it and give us credit for what we previously didnt get. and of course come the final grading period, he didnt keep his word and I failed by a damned half percent.

and to top it off, there was a grading curve. I got like a 68.5 percent (D+) and a C- would have been a 69%

sorry im just bitching.

You said you failed... a D isn't failing.