Saturday, June 4, 2011

"Is there anything I can do to improve my grade?"

If you're a teacher, you've heard this question before. Here is a little video that I will show to my students every quarter/semester for the rest of my life. I will tell them that if they ever engage me in a conversation that resembles this one at any point, I will never talk to them again.

4 comments:

M said...

This is so sadly true-to-life....and hilarious. Way to start my morning off right! :-)

Mateus said...

Amen to M's comment. Happened this semester.

bfbffgh said...

It surprisingly didn't happen the last semester I taught, but I did have a student upset about his grade who used the word "unethical" on his evaluation, multiple times...

Ben said...

I have a student in what was to be their final quarter of school but they didn't pass my class and have to take it again in the summer. They got a D+ but for some reason the school of humanities requires that they have at least a "C". If that's the case, why even have the "D"?

I support mediocrity and thus, I believe this kid should graduate. This student's Spanish skills are quite obviously below average, as a "D" indicates, but technically the student didn't fail.