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Originally Posted by Turtle
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.  |
I have a near perfect GPA I don't know what you think you are talking about. It's true when I was an undergrad I had lower scores because when teachers pulled stuff like this I didn't do anything about it or drop the course... so my records looked like A .. D ... A ... C basically just depending on the emotional maturity level of the professor in the class.
One professor even went so far as to throw a temper tantrum at me and threaten to hit me when I pointed out a mistake in his grading. At this point when I come across emotionally immature professors I will do everything from getting in their face about it and pointing out how they are mistaken, to threatening to grade appeal if they are being really obstinate to dropping the class if I feel it's not worth the effort.
The claim that professors are just above things like that is just absurd. At my university, one professor was recently found out to be a child molester and another killed a few people and ran off into the woods and committed suicide. Stuff like this happened SPECIFICALLY BECAUSE of the ignorant attitude that professors could do no wrong because they were "respected" or whatever other nonsense wording people use to justify tribal morality. They didn't even bother to run a simple background check because that would be like accusing a PHD of being a child molester...
Nobody puts you in a position like that to dictate the truth or place you above scrutiny. They put you there because they think you are capable of discovering the truth and because they think you will stand up to scrutiny. If you can't do these things, you can't point to the fact that you are a professor to overcome it... that is circular reasoning.
Your problem is you have no guts and you are too impressionable. He is only the teacher because he was thought to be knowledgeable and fair. If he makes a mistake like that and refuses to own up to it, the right thing to do is go over his head and teach him not to do it again not give in. Thanks to your weakness, he will continue to behave similarly with other students spreading ignorance and immaturity.
