So my teacher basically told me to **** off today....

[QUOTE="Krelian-co"]

[QUOTE="butteman12"]

Alright so it's the end of the year. Finals have ended, summer is here, etc. I go to my Spanish teacher and ask him politely if he could change my grade from an 89.3% (which counts as a B) to an 89.5 which constitutes as an A. Guess what his response is? "Go home. I don't care. Get out of here." he told me that MULTIPLE times. You may think that he was being reasonable since teachers can't just round up just because a student asks them to do it, but here's the deal. I told him to change my participation score constantly throughout the semester since he gave me a horrible grade for it and it's worth 40% of my grade. He said that he made a mistake and will change it but of course, he did not. It's his fault that i could not get the 89.5.

I'm not too angry about the fact that he did not change my grade. What I am angry about is his attitude towards a student who had a sincere grade request. He could've politely told me that he couldn't and grades were final. It's not like I would keep pestering him about it or something. Instead, he basically told me to gtfo out of his classroom.

Anyone have a story in which there teacher was a total ***** to them?

rawsavon

how do you get a 89.93% with 40% being a horrible grade"?

had a teacher fail me cause i circled, not crossed, multiple choice

yes, but it would be somewhat of my fault too

[QUOTE="rawsavon"][QUOTE="Krelian-co"]

how do you get a 89.93% with 40% being a horrible grade"?

butteman12

Sounds like you didn't participate enough so sounds like a fair grade to me.

I got this awesome religion teacher who called one of my classmate a "scrotum" before, we bust out laughing. But we constant make jokes about him being bald infront of him, and he insult us back, best class this year.

i didn't get a "horrible" grade for my participation (40%). i got a B- on it and after getting that, it was very hard to raise my grade to an A since the participation points are worth such a huge chunk of your grade. However, this B- was not justified at all. I know several students that tell me that i avidly participate in the class.butteman12

To appeal a grade, you pretty much need to have a test or assignment, and be able to point to things where the teacher made a mistake (i.e., he didn't give credit to a point you made in an essay, he marked a correct answer as wrong, etc.) Going in and saying "these people all said I participated a lot" isn't going to get you the extra marks.

I would have egged his car and/or home.

My kindergarten teacher, My 8th grade Sience teacher, and my Chinese 1 teacher, and that's about it. I've never had a problem with most of my teachers...

I think you should thank your teacher for teaching you a very valuable life lesson: life is not fair, and you are rarely ever rewarded based upon merit. The only effective way to get ahead is to (1) be an a-hole; (2) think only of yourself; (3) step on anyone who gets in your way. Greed is good.

And now you know.....And knowing is half the battle..........

[QUOTE="Nibroc420"][QUOTE="Wasdie"]

Change your grade? So you go into their office or after class and want your grade increased? That doesn't seem fair.

Wasdie

Doesn't matter it is .000009 percent. You're still asking for your grade to be increased for no reason.

If he's in HS, and trying to get into an elite college, an A is big deal, the teacher would simply be doing a favor. One that would constitute no effort on his part, and be little to nothing of a stretch. That .2% doesn't represent what kind of a student he is.

well most of my teachers have been good, and if they did something i thought was wrong i'd smooth talk them into changing it, haha got me out of a few pickles.

Tho one teacher i'll never forget gave me a 76% for my short story (anywhere from 10-25 pages long)i wrote in 12th grade english, ok but get this i handed it in the day it was due along with 8 other of the 22 person class, most of them handed it in a couple days late and lost no marks, was no biggy since only 1 got a higher mark than me and that was just by 2%.

Ok but heres the big cahoonas, one guy didnt hand his in for 2 months after the due date, even tho the teacher kept pressuring him saying that it was worth half his mark for that semester, so he hands it as i said 2 months later, now this guy wasnt known for that much of writing material but he was alright in regular english studies.
So he hands the story in, and gets a 85% on it,most of the **** including me were ******* that he didnt lose marks for handing it in so late, when one of my friends asked the teacher he said that the story was so good that he could only bring himself to take 10% off, so it was originally a 95%, so my friend asked for a copy of it to read over night.

And this was the big one, the whole story was practically the entire story of the main storyline for Elder Scrolls V oblivion, with a few changes to names and descriptions.
We tried to tell the teacher that he had copied the story from a game, but he just said we were jealous and scraping the bottom of the barrel for excuses.

I just wonder if when my teacher read the story he imagined the emperor with the voice of patrick stewart.

Alright so it's the end of the year. Finals have ended, summer is here, etc. I go to my Spanish teacher and ask him politely if he could change my grade from an 89.3% (which counts as a B) to an 89.5 which constitutes as an A. Guess what his response is? "Go home. I don't care. Get out of here." he told me that MULTIPLE times. You may think that he was being reasonable since teachers can't just round up just because a student asks them to do it, but here's the deal. I told him to change my participation score constantly throughout the semester since he gave me a horrible grade for it and it's worth 40% of my grade. He said that he made a mistake and will change it but of course, he did not. It's his fault that i could not get the 89.5.

I'm not too angry about the fact that he did not change my grade. What I am angry about is his attitude towards a student who had a sincere grade request. He could've politely told me that he couldn't and grades were final. It's not like I would keep pestering him about it or something. Instead, he basically told me to gtfo out of his classroom.

Anyone have a story in which there teacher was a total ***** to them?

butteman12

I think you should thank your teacher for teaching you a very valuable life lesson: life is not fair, and you are rarely ever rewarded based upon merit. The only effective way to get ahead is to (1) be an a-hole; (2) think only of yourself; (3) step on anyone who gets in your way. Greed is good.

And now you know.....And knowing is half the battle..........

sogni_belli

Haha, where have you been all my life?

Go higher up the chain.

[QUOTE="butteman12"][QUOTE="Wasdie"]

Doesn't matter it is .000009 percent. You're still asking for your grade to be increased for no reason.

Nibroc420

This.

I had an English teacher tell me she was going to "punch me in my stupid ****ing ****** face."

This year her husband had a heart attack and she found out her kid has autism, so she divorced her husband and cut off all contact from her kid. She is the absolute worst person I have ever met in my life.

For anyone who's curious what the bleeped out words are, the first one is a four letter f word and the second one is a disrespectful word for a homosexual.

We tried to tell the teacher that he had copied the story from a game, but he just said we were jealous and scraping the bottom of the barrel for excuses.

sonofsmeagle

that seems unecessary, ratting him out would not increase your grade

Probably sick of kids whining to him.Wilfred_Owen

This. He probably took your request as yet another from the thousands he's dealt with over his career. He's not the type to remember a face, is he? I had professors like that. He probably doesn't recall the incident he had with you earlier and simply figured you were just another student asking for an easy raise. Don't fess over it. That's life. Move on. It sucks I know. And about his reaction, you will have rude attitudes like that. Again don't fess over it, let it go. It's not the last time you'll deal with a reaction like that.

good. you should have been better at spanish if you wanted an Amems_1224

this

TS sounds like he learned a life lesson : when you want stuff you have to earn it,

I go to my Spanish teacher and ask him politely if he could change my grade

butteman12

[QUOTE="butteman12"]

I go to my Spanish teacher and ask him politely if he could change my grade

AirGuitarist87

I wouldn't consider this an attitude problem, but one student in high school got an 89.9996% for the semester in AP Bio, and the teacher refused to round up lol.

I wouldn't consider this an attitude problem, but one student in high school got an 89.9996% for the semester in AP Bio, and the teacher refused to round up lol.

CJL182

[QUOTE="CJL182"]

I wouldn't consider this an attitude problem, but one student in high school got an 89.9996% for the semester in AP Bio, and the teacher refused to round up lol.

Nibroc420

No. The teacher assigns the final grade, and he got a B+ for that semester. That was always the case in my high school at least.

Hate to say it, but life is like that. I got screwed out of 500$ on my scholarship because my average was 89.77, and I needed 90 overall :/Setsa