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Originally Posted by modest
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I don't think manipulating grades based on behavior is really very common (at least, in my experience). I suppose other schools and other teachers might be different.
~modest
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it may not be common, but it happens. now mind you that i think kriminal simply failed yet another course (given the context of his long membership & postings here@Hypog) and is making yet another thread making it out someones's fault other than his own, but i do have an anecdote of my own in support of his assertion.
so i'm taking a speech course and we have a group assignment to rank order a list of 20 or so items by importance for survival if stranded on the Moon. for the teacher, there was as set of "right" answers. well, among the items was a compass, which i pointed out to my group would not work magnetically, but could be used to determine latitude by sighting Sun and reading angle from dial. so the group was convinced, but the teacher comes over to listen in and when he hears my explanation he gets huffy, says it' wrong, and do it over, and when i persisted to argue that scientifically he was wrong, he made it clear that if i continued that he would fail me. (you shoulda' seen the looks on the other folks' faces, which you might have except they were all turned away.
) well, that's that, he's the teacher, no whining, so i shut my mouth, and ended up with an A.
so,
good student is what you make of it. life is bloody full of compromise, or to quote a current vulgar phrase, life's a bitch. follow that by the antidote current vulgar phrase; suck it up.
