'There was nothing stopping him from enrolling in the course': Professor flunks himself and his own grandmother to spite university's rules

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    Font - Professor and grandma take one for the team S OC Excuse me, English is not my first language, written on a smart closet. This story was told by the professor in the first lecture of his course to reassure us he wasn't there to screw us.
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    Font - Paul the professor came to my university to his first tenure track position and part of his duties was to lecture a course. In order to prevent meaninglessly easy courses, the university had a rule that for any course with more than 20 students, the average grade could not be higher than 90.
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    Font - Paul teaches his course for the first time, grades HW, and writes the test, aiming for a average around 85. Apparently he either underestimated his students/ teaching abilities, or overestimated how hard the test was, because the final average was well above 90.
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    Font - Now Paul didn't want to start docking twice as much points for a given mistake to students because of his mistake, and he sure didn't want to have a situation where someone else deducts points by some random logic.
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    Font - Paul then thought about the students that didn't finish the course and how that would have reduced the average, and realized, there was nothing stopping him from enrolling in the course. He enrolled himself into his own course in the online system, even though the final was already over, gave himself a 0, and saw the average go down by a few points. However, the average was still above 90. So talked to his grandmother, who has nothing to do with the university, and signed her up for the c
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    Gesture - dotblot +1 The he is this rule, setting up people to failure?
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    Smile - kttykt66755 That is the dumbest rule I've ever heard of a university having
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    Font - MOLPT Why create an artificial shortage of great students?
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    Font - +1.2 yr. ago Companies have this for performance reviews. Only 5% can get the highest Luxin review, 10% the second highest, etc... It's called binning and useful right after a merger. But some companies use it every year...
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    Font - Ich_mag_Kartoffeln 2 yr. ago Please explain to the ignorant: how is it useful? And why after a merger?
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    Font - BlocterDocterFoct er • 2 yr. ago After a merger you usually downsize and get rid of duplicates that existed in both companies. This gives them an arbitrary way to choose who to keep. It helps them sleep better at night about the decision, nothing more.
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    Font - MT10inMA written on a smart closet Well that's a new one
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    Font - tactman What university allows people to enroll in a course after the final is over? What university allows people who have not been admitted (no student ID, no tuition+fees, etc.) to enroll in a course? Very odd.
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    Font - Stabbmaster +3. So lazy school admins, instead of implementing peer reviews or making the department heads check up on their professors from time to time, instead implement an easily circumventable/potential ly impossible without intentionally failing someone rule. Sounds about right for disconnected admin.
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    Font - virtualmaxk I worked for a very large tech company that always advertised thet they only hire the best people. But every year they followed the rule that 10% of the workers had to fail no matter how well they performed.

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