Sorry, Grade-Grubbing Grace, but the fact that you are VERY upset is not a reason to change the grade on your exam, or to give you another chance. No, the fact that you are VERY VERY VERY upset is not a reason either. NO, you are wrong----when a question is answered incorrectly, that IS a valid reason to give it no points, even if the student wrote interesting things about a different question I might have asked. And NO, for crying out loud, the color of the curtains in that short story was not ironic in ANY way. You did not receive points because you did not demonstrate an understanding of irony AT ALL. And the fact that you are acting like such an intellectually superior know-it -all about this is VERY ironic.
That's all. Now get out of my office and let me drink my tea in peace.
They just are so used to winning these petulant arguments with Mr. Clark their favorite teacher that they assume we are just waiting for the wonder of being their professors.
ReplyDeleteBut but but... I want a higher grade! Answers to questions I don't ask don't get any credit. On exam days, we get to ask the questions and they get to answer them.
ReplyDeleteThis is one reason I so enjoy teaching science. The students are so terrified, they often give up on these arguments the moment it gets quantitative.
ReplyDeleteA long time ago in Canuckistan, someone thought it a good idea to share the marking guidelines given out to TAs at a Top American University.
ReplyDeleteOne guideline was that a piece of code should *never* be given a mark of zero.
Of course, guidelines were laughed at and promptly binned.