Reply #10: screw em!

[daveskilt]

My wife has the same problem right now. She is doing her last class for her PhD in 20th century american literature. She needed this one undergrad art history class to complete her course requirements (her undergrad is in art history but they wouldn't waive the class - stupid school) yeah those wee 19 year old undergrads sure hate her for killing their curve.

I say screw em all! nothing pisses me off (in school) more than people who coast to easy grades they don't deserve. When grading students if they earned a D then they are going to get a D dangit. Of course here in Georgia there is the HOPE scholarship where they all get school paid for if they keep a B average. every semester a dozen students come crying that they really need this B or they will loose their scholarship and have to drop out and go back to the farm etc etc. should have thought of that before they skipped classes and didnt study. sure the student was in a car wreck...fine we can do an incomplete. but if they are just lazy (or as is often the case too damned dumb to be in college in the forst place) then they will get the grade they earned - then they can learn something about personal responsibility and about consequences for bad choices. what good does it do to give them a B they didnt earn? it teaches them they will never have to work for anything. they can cry and have it given to them -not in this class kiddo.

lobster bucket mentality