Down with Grade Grubbing Weasels

By John Warner. ‘Tis the season for students lobbying for higher grades. Anyone who has taught a college course has experienced the full range of student approaches to nudging their semester result upward. They come in all shapes and sizes – the abject supplicant looking for a Hail Mary, the grotesquely entitled who believe your course has undervalued their genius, and the outright threatening who are more than willing to take their complaint up the administrative chain. Read more...