I was wondering if there was anyway you could boost my mark a percent or two for your course?
I need 3 more percent in order to achieve a thousand dollar grant, as well as for car insurance purposes to get my cost down 800$ for the next semester.
Anything you can do will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
The Late (not great) One
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Dear Late,
Sorry, but this is extremely late notice.
Marks were announced and then posted ages ago.
I also cannot grant extra grades with no actual (course-related) justification provided.
Best,
CB
Whoa. Whoa. Whoa.
ReplyDeleteWrite back, and ask the student if she knows how to divide the potential $1800 largesse by 2, if you know what I mean . . .
Dang, Kate! Why didn't I think of that?
DeleteAlas, my parting shot was quite lame - "Drive safe"! *SMH*
Yeah, they never offer to share....
DeleteIn my field fraud = jail time. Great way to start a career.
ReplyDeleteReceived three of these requests this semester. One wanted a higher grade to get into Nursing; apparently, if I did not raise her grade, I would prevent her from achieving "her lifelong dream." The second realized after the fact that she needed a higher grade as a prerequisite. The third had been hoping for a "B," received a "C+," and was now worried that her GPA would be compromised.
ReplyDeleteNone of the three actually took issue with the fairness of the grading--indeed, their grades had been consistent all semester, so the final grade was no surprise to any of them. The one who had been hoping for a "B" received grades in the "C" range all semester, but thought her brilliant (it was not brilliant) final would somehow pull her into the "B" range. It didn't, so she decided after the grades were entered to ask for a bonus exercise to pull her grade up to a "B."
Where do they get this shit? What do they think their grades are dependent on? ...our moods?! What would possibly lead them to believe that I would give one student special treatment when every policy on my course outline is prefaced with the line, "In fairness to ALL students..."?
One of our former students approached a colleague with this request. Her response was to go forward with a plagiarism charge related to the student's work in her class.
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