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Originally Posted by canuckguy
That sucks man, I hope your able to get a resolve and improve your grade.
I had a prof in uni who was similar to that, all verbal communication and once you did the work it never matched what he had in his head. I suspected he was jaded towards me (i rarely attended the lectures) and he used that as a bias against me even though class attendance was not a component of the overall grade.
Before our final papers I took my completed assignment to a different prof in the same department and asked her to give my paper a once over and offer a grade assessment explaining to her that i really needed to "nail" this class.
She gave me an A- or something like that, then I took that same paper untouched and submitted it to my prof who gave me a fucking D. I then took both papers to do the dean and asked to be explained why one prof gave me an A while another a D on the same paper, same department.
The prof in question hated my guts afterward (my mark was changed) but I was really pissed about it. Since it was my major I ended up transferring schools to avoid that jerk since I was going to have to deal with him the next year. How sad.
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I'm certain tactics such as this work. But the end result was you having to attend an entirely different school the following year. I'd follow snowy's advice on this, it's spot on, IMHO. My daughter got into a pissing match with a criminal justice professor while attending a small community college. The professor (who was also a local attorney) took a leave of absence due to a family emergency and failed to leave everyone instructions on how to take the final exam. My daughter had repeatedly contacted the dean and dept. head asking what she should do regarding the final. Each time she was told "Just wait for the professor to return, we're sure she'll let you take it." When the professor returned nearly two months later she gave my daughter an "F" for failing to take the final. Turns out she had my daughter's e-mail incorrect. The professor claimed it was my daughter's responsibility to ensure she had the correct e-mail. My daughter scheduled a meeting with the professor and dept. head. I talked with the dean and dept. head they seemed concerned about the professors behavior. They each told me they thought the situation was not being handled well by the professor. Sounded to me like there was going to be a reasonable solution to the the situation. Then my daughter ended up telling the professor, over the phone, she was either going to change the grade, let her take the final or my daughter was going to get her fired. Yeah, that went over well. In my daughter's defense her fiancée had just been killed and she was under a lot of stress. But after that phone call, which the professor recorded, no one seemed willing to support my daughter's side and she has that "F" on her record to this day.
Bottom line is getting into a power struggle with someone in power is a dangerous game. It's a game you're more then likely to lose. It can be won, but usually the cost is pretty high.