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re: Appealing grade in English at LSU
Posted on 5/9/18 at 9:35 am to fightingtigers98
Posted on 5/9/18 at 9:35 am to fightingtigers98
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Appreciate the reasonable and candid response unlike some of the others.
frick you.
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Posted on 5/9/18 at 9:36 am to fightingtigers98
quote:At least you can get a grade exemption for that "F" when you retake it again.
fightingtigers98
Posted on 5/9/18 at 9:38 am to fightingtigers98
When you get a job, you might actually have to show up to work one day
Posted on 5/9/18 at 9:39 am to fightingtigers98
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I understand that, but in my case I was able to make an A on the assignments without showing up to every class. It seems unintuitive to in turn fail me because of that.
Not when attendance is factored in as part of your overall grade. You made an A on the assignments, but you made an F on your grade.
Posted on 5/9/18 at 9:39 am to fightingtigers98
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I understand that, but in my case I was able to make an A on the assignments without showing up to every class. It seems unintuitive to in turn fail me because of that.
You're young, naive and spoiled. One of the great values of attending brick-and-mortar college is the discourse that happens in a live classroom. Especially in a class like English. Was the material easy/graded in a way that you could pass? Great. But you and your fellow students missed out on a portion of the learning experience through your absence.
You need to view college differently than you do. It shouldn't just be viewed as an upwards pump where you do the minimum to get a piece of paper. You aren't required to be there, and you are an arrogant dumbass for blowing off attendance when the syllabus told you exactly what would happen.
Posted on 5/9/18 at 9:40 am to fightingtigers98
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I live off campus on Burbank, and yes I have jobs that many of you have likely encountered.
OK, so you're a bartender. That's your first problem. Bar tending during the week and full time schooling don't usually go well together.
If you are enrolled in school full time, you have one most important job, and that is the education. Absent extraordinary circumstances, everything else is secondary. Either approach it that way or drop out.
Posted on 5/9/18 at 9:40 am to Breesus
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frick you.
I can't tell if you thought I was being sarcastic or not, which I wasn't. I also can't tell if this frick you was sarcastic or not either.
Posted on 5/9/18 at 9:43 am to GeorgeTheGreek
quote:He doesn't think of attendance as an assignment, but it is. And he can't understand why it matters.
You made an A on the assignments
Posted on 5/9/18 at 9:44 am to fightingtigers98
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I can't tell if you thought I was being sarcastic or not,
I'm 100% sure you were not.
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I also can't tell if this frick you was sarcastic or not either.
Honest question: are your parents married? Is your dad involved in your life?
Posted on 5/9/18 at 9:45 am to BrohemAlem11
I had a lab teacher that, if you got a D or lower on your midterm or final, you received that grade for all of your lab reports previous to that. So basically, if you got a D or lower on your midterm or final, you were failing the class at that point.
This policy was approved by the administration, and was included in the syllabus, so it was legit. He was an extremely hard grader
This policy was approved by the administration, and was included in the syllabus, so it was legit. He was an extremely hard grader
Posted on 5/9/18 at 9:45 am to Breesus
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Honest question: are your parents married? Is your dad involved in your life?
This has taken a turn, but yes
Posted on 5/9/18 at 9:46 am to fightingtigers98
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This has taken a turn, but yes
Tell them they suck as parents and thank your dad for failing you as a father.
Posted on 5/9/18 at 9:47 am to fightingtigers98
The attendance policy was listed on the syllabus that you agreed to. You were rightly held accountable to it. There are consequences to your actions. When you get a real job are you going to tell your boss that you will only show up when you feel its warranted?
All of that being said, I was in a similar situation when I transferred schools. I had taken a geology class previously that I earned an A in but for some reason the second school didn't count it as equivalent. Showed up on day one to a professor that said if you missed more than 4 classes it was an automatic F. They were using the same textbook, lab guides, etc. so I went to the professor. Showed him my transcript, etc. We discussed the situation and came up with a compromise that I could only show up for exams as long as I was making an A. If any exam was less than an A then I had to start coming to class again. I attended 6 classes the entire semester.
All of that being said, I was in a similar situation when I transferred schools. I had taken a geology class previously that I earned an A in but for some reason the second school didn't count it as equivalent. Showed up on day one to a professor that said if you missed more than 4 classes it was an automatic F. They were using the same textbook, lab guides, etc. so I went to the professor. Showed him my transcript, etc. We discussed the situation and came up with a compromise that I could only show up for exams as long as I was making an A. If any exam was less than an A then I had to start coming to class again. I attended 6 classes the entire semester.
Posted on 5/9/18 at 9:47 am to Breesus
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Tell them they suck as parents and thank your dad for failing you as a father.
That seems mean spirited and unnecessary, so frick you
Posted on 5/9/18 at 9:53 am to fightingtigers98
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That seems mean spirited and unnecessary
You haven't learned anything and you are in for a very rough life, and it's because your parents failed at their basic duty of parenting you and preparing you for life. It can be as mean-spirited as you believe, but ask yourself this, if I'm the only one in this thread giving you level-headed and meaningful advice shouldn't you atleast consider my post as true and reflect upon its meaning to your life?
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frick you
You wish you could be so lucky
Posted on 5/9/18 at 9:55 am to Breesus
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Eveyone here agrees the rule is stupid, but take this as a learning experience. There will always be stupid rules and annoying bosses and frustrating counter-intuitive practices in your life. You have to learn how to deal with them. That's part of growing up and part of being successful. Some rules can be bent some can be broken. Some must be followed
This line of thought is problematic. Yes rules that have a benefit must be followed. But if a rule is obviously useless, then why should you ever follow it. Show that it is useless. Get more done with your life instead of wasting time on the useless rule. Be a pioneer! Break barriers! Be the solution that advances society!!!! All in the name of being lazy and sleeping in past that 7:30 class
Posted on 5/9/18 at 9:57 am to fightingtigers98
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I can't tell if you thought I was being sarcastic or not, which I wasn't. I also can't tell if this frick you was sarcastic or not either
Probably because you never went to English class
Posted on 5/9/18 at 9:59 am to BrohemAlem11
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I understand that, but in my case I was able to make an A on the assignments without showing up to every class. It seems unintuitive to in turn fail me because of that.
LOL. Excuses make me laugh. I'm guessing your a traditional student, well I'm not. I take 12- sometimes 15 hours a semester, Have 3 kids that are all in school, after school activities, I cook dinner every night, husband to bitch at, and I attend class every class, morning or night.
One of my evening teachers told our class the first day of the semester, 'I have a baby at home, so after working all at my normal job all day, don't take my time away from my child at night, be at class". OMG and guess what if you are not there she already changed your attendance grade within the first 5 min of class. This is at a community college, and your talking about LSU, STFU and hold ur head a little higher than that.
And yes plagiarism can be considered your own work if you use the same paper a second (I learned that in English). * Hint* its not an original idea if you already used it.
Posted on 5/9/18 at 9:59 am to fightingtigers98
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The average of my papers was a 90,
He graded your papers too easily.
Posted on 5/9/18 at 10:00 am to KG6
quote:First to answer your question: Because you could get an F, or in the real world, lose your job.
But if a rule is obviously useless, then why should you ever follow it. Show that it is useless. Get more done with your life instead of wasting time on the useless rule.
And now some questions for you. What is the point of college? Why are we required to take electives?
And what you think is useless for you may not be useless for someone else.
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