By opinionsarestill - 20/12/2013 08:23 - United States - Sacramento

Today, after finals, my English professor left me less than one percent from an A. Why? All semester long, he took away points because my opinions did not match his. FML
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opinionsarestill 4

HI! I appreciate sympathy. I wasn't expecting it, but it makes me feel a bit better. Thank you. XD It is (was) a college level English course (the last one I had to take for my GE requirements). I really did try hard in that class. I would ask him very specific questions and he would provide vague answers. His opinion on the material was never explicitly clear (considering every assignment we did was based upon a different work or subject). I'm not displeased about getting a B, it's just frustrating to be left so close to the next grade!

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kierstynxrose 8

Damn, that's the most retarded reason I've ever heard for docking marks. FYL.

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annihil8or 15

English classes are such a waste of time at the college level. You don't learn anything different from what you already knew after high school. Colleges should just give literacy tests.

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beanthemouse 13

Unless your opinons were infringing on facts, he is a bigot for doing that. Does he expect all 7 billion people in the world to agree with him?!

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nightbirdblue 27

It could be worse. I got called racist, ethnocentric, and homophobic for not naming every non white kid and not heterosexual kid in that I had been in class with from kindergarten to highschool in a cultural biographical essay I was told to write. I got a C on it and a C in that class. I'm a lesbian. O.O

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Stheno 14

Can you not get another person to mark it? Or ask for a remark? I know in the UK you can :)

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tbenson0628 14

Sounds like you should report him to the dean. Thats not right at all. He's teacher in college. Its his job to teach you to think, which includes creating your own opinion.

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Shade1982 20

Yeah... The thing is, unless you got that in writing or something similar, a dean isn't going to do much about it... Without any reasonable evidence, they aren't very likely to write up a colleague...

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sammyjo06 14

That sucks. I was lucky to have a very fair English teacher my senior year of high school, even though we clashed badly. I was usually a quiet, well-mannered student and yet he and I were constantly at odds. This was so much that he actually kicked me out of class twice. Nonetheless, he always graded everything I did fairly and I got an A in the course despite our drastically different opinions. I didn't much like him in some ways, but I at least respected him for his ability to judge me fairly.

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JoBHarvelle 7

So I guess "Freedom of speech" doesn't apply in his class? Sounds like he's a "Mr.Know-It-All". Hate those kind - UGH!

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