Comments | schneckerock: school.

schneckerock

school.

Dec 03, 2009 21:06

my little brother, who was homeschooled his entire life (and therefore used to doing everything himself), is finishing up his first semester of college. he had this group assignment for a psychology class, a presentation of some sort, and there were 5 kids in the group. it was due today and he was the only one of the 5 to show up. which apparently ( Read more... )

wtf, school, brothers

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schneckerock December 4 2009, 03:26:32 UTC

he says he wants to wait until after the final, see what his final grade is, and if he ends up with an A, leave it. but if he does get the B then complain.

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schneckerock December 4 2009, 03:25:33 UTC

I was, from 6th grade through high school. my brother was all the way through because he's so much younger.

shoshana_flor December 4 2009, 15:30:45 UTC

Neither did I.
But that one was simply unfair. :(((

buenafortuna December 4 2009, 03:20:36 UTC

That makes no sense. When that happened to D in his first semester or regular classes, the teacher gave him 100%.

schneckerock December 4 2009, 03:24:55 UTC

apparently it had something to do with the fact that there was supposed to be a model of a brain present, and one of the other kids was supposed to bring it in, and that kid didn't show. so no model meant no full points. which was stupid--he said if he'd known the others weren't showing up, he could've made some kind of model before coming to class, and had SOMETHING. I said he should demand to be able to bring it in late and get full points then.

he's upset that the others are only getting 0's on their project. he thinks they should get negative points.

aelf December 4 2009, 03:42:28 UTC

Unfortunately, this is too common. I've even heard of (never personally experienced) professors who would deduct points from group projects if you told them a group member was a slacker & the group was having issues. Part of the whole group thing is supposedly learning how to work with and motivate others.

I think it's just a form of torture, personally.

schneckerock December 4 2009, 20:52:26 UTC

it is torture. I'm not even against all group projects, I just think the way this was handled was completely wrong. you didn't motivate the rest of your group properly. you fail!

aishy December 4 2009, 05:52:26 UTC

THat is just beyond evil ! How is it even fair that HIS grade is made lower because OTHER students didn't show up ? Annnnoying! I feel so bad for him, I hope he does go contest this.

schneckerock December 4 2009, 20:42:38 UTC

apparently he was supposed to bring the others in by gunpoint? I dunno how this makes any sense.