Meh I disagree. I've haggled a couple grades very successfully before. I also haggled for one credit hour without having to take any classes or test.
Just recently I helped my younger cousin talk his way up one grade point to change his grade from a C to a B. He did it. In his case had he not kept the gpa he would have lost all his scholarship money.
We're not saying that students don't get away with it. We're saying that, at best, we roll our eyes and laugh at students who do this. Sometimes we give in just because we need to get the obnoxious folks the heck away from us. I've seen kids get away with murder in college because the professor and administrators just can't deal with them so they capitulate.
In undergrad my Logic teacher gave me a 3.0 because it was the 2'nd time I took the class, went to tutoring, stayed every day to ask questions, and never missed a class. The math was a 0.0
He said Ms. Karma, some people try hard but just aren't logical. You don't think like a logical person.
I needed that class to graduate. I didn't even have to show him my boobs. I think he just didn't want me to come back to his class again.
This happened to me with Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences. I failed it the first time, 2nd time I wasn't doing much better despite tutoring, extra credit, showing up to every class. I just didn't understand it. I passed but barely and definitely by the grace of the professor. I still (20 years later) still have nightmares that I didn't pass and am taken out of line at graduation.
Post by cheeseandcrackers on May 9, 2013 10:50:25 GMT -5
This one time, I had a teacher that really didn't like me that failed me with a 69.97. I asked her if she could please round it up to 70 so I wouldn't have to take the class again. She said no because I didn't have what it takes. Bitch.
A year later when I was graduating, she was the first person I ran into at the ceremony, and she hugged me and told me she knew I could do it.
cville, that story is epic. He has charmed his way straight to a multi-million dollar net worth, I'm sure!
i haven't been able to find him on linkedin. he had a difficult to spell last name, so either i'm spelling it wrong or he's not on there. probably because he's retired at 38 and lives in fiji.
In undergrad my Logic teacher gave me a 3.0 because it was the 2'nd time I took the class, went to tutoring, stayed every day to ask questions, and never missed a class. The math was a 0.0
He said Ms. Karma, some people try hard but just aren't logical. You don't think like a logical person.
I needed that class to graduate. I didn't even have to show him my boobs. I think he just didn't want me to come back to his class again.
My HS Calculus teacher gave me a pity B one quarter.
I was not smart enough to take the class but was pressing into it by my mom. The teacher told us at the beginning of the year to not ask about our grades because he wasn't going to give out the information. I got a C the first two semesters (thank you, grading curve!) and in the third semester asked if it was at all possible to get some info on my grade because if I didn't get a B my mom wasn't going to let me go to Florida for spring break (even though I bought the ticket way back in Sept). Report cards came out - magic B. It went back to a C the last quarter. Thank you, Mr. Alex!
cville, that story is epic. He has charmed his way straight to a multi-million dollar net worth, I'm sure!
i haven't been able to find him on linkedin. he had a difficult to spell last name, so either i'm spelling it wrong or he's not on there. probably because he's retired at 38 and lives in fiji.
Yeah, I heard he married archer! Pre-nupped up, of course!