Unfair Teacher Fails Half Of Class, Student Settles The Score

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Eric Lund
Sep 5, 2021 8:00 PM EDT

Navigating the BS of academia gets even harder with absolutely ineffectual tenured professors, and while some of their not caring can often result in an easy A, it's the unexplainable Fs that truly motivate people to do something about it. Here's a student who decided enough was enough. For a professor who got the upper hand, here's a professor who fooled their cheating students.

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    Font - Posted by u/malformed_data 1 day ago A 8 2 19 @24 3 25 21 3 Tell me to appeal my unfair grade? You got it. oC L Many years ago (it's a joke leave me alone), I was a student studying computer science in the midwest. While most of my professors were okay, there was one that was notorious, let's call him Dr J. Dr J was an old, effete, lazy professor with a thick seuthwest southeast asian accent whom had been "teaching" for the better part of 30 years, and had fully embraced the typical semi
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    Font - per week of lecture time, he was actually in the classroom for maybe half of it, and the time that he did spend in the classroom was a complete waste. He would just pass out packets at the beginning of class that contained numerous diagrams and handwritten notes that were indecipherable, and meander around the class pointing at various parts to groups of people working on them and mumble incoherently about how to solve it... I think. I never understood a word he said. He never followed hi
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    Font - For anyone who's taken an engineering course, especially an upper level one, this won't sound too crazy. But here's the kicker: he would fail, regularly, HALF the class, for a required upper level computer architecture course. This is exceptionally rare and completely unfair for a class at this level, especially at a State school that isn't a research uni. Typically the interlopers have been weeded out by junior year, so while the rest of the classes are by no means a cakewalk, if you put
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    Font - Here's the malicious compliance: Lo and behold, I'm one of the 16 out of 31 students in the class that he failed that semester, and I failed having gotten very similar scores to a couple other students, but they passed. I went to Dr J's office after the scores had been applied to our transcripts online to discuss the matter. Dr J wouldn't have any of it, doesn't matter that I had similar scores to other students that had passed, there's “many ways I grade my students and you failed. If yo
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    Font - My school has a very well laid out and reasonable grade appeal policy, with many avenues toward getting the appeal approved. I knew that through some of the snide jokes they made, my other professors did not take kindly to Dr J at all, so it wasn't just the students that strongly disliked him. Well when you appeal a grade, the other profs in the department are the ones who get to decide whether or not you actually passed, given certain evidence. "It's practically criminal, what he gets aw
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    Font - Now my original plan was for me to just file an appeal and move on, because I knew I'd get Dr J had poked the bear and now I was mad. So I reached out to everyone in the class, very easy But since we all were on a Slack channel together, and set a meeting in a conference room in the library. I guess I underestimated how much everyone hated Dr J because everyone from the class showed up! I laid out my plan: EVERYONE file a grade appeal, even if you passed, if it'll help your GPA. At my sch
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    Font - I think the final count of appeals was something like 22, everyone who's GPA could be improved with a "satisfactory" applied for one. You should've seen the look on the department chair's face when we showed up with a stack of appeals. No department in the history of the school had ever had that many appeals/complaints for a single course, let alone for a single professor. I know this because the dean sat us all down and said so. There were so many appeals they had to bring us into the fa
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    Font - Two weeks later we heard the news: everyone, literally everyone, had gotten their appeal approved. Dr J was given a formal warning by the uni and had most of his courses taken away and are now taught by other people. He still holds onto the computer architecture course and some freshman intro classes, but from what I've heard he hasn't failed anyone for a looooong time. So if you're a lazy prick of a professor, be warned: might get someone like me for a student, who foments an insurrectio
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