legal issue?

[callmeslick]

sorry, but no. Welcome to grad school, darling:
http://www.delawareonline.com/viewart/2 ... -3-million

[Tunnelcat]

Same here. My take: "Welcome to life honey. If you didn't make the grade, you failed. Nice try next time. No one should get a free ride, or get services (ie., physical therapy) from someone who got a free ride". Gee, I sound like a conservative................

[Top Gun]

My reaction can be summed up thusly:

[CDN_Merlin]

Thought I posted here. Sadly she needs to be smarter.

[Foil]

As presented in the article, yeah, sounds like a ridiculous lawsuit which would get slapped down pretty quickly.

On the other hand, I've found that news/articles/blogs about legal cases often leave out crucial details, in the interest of generating outrage (readership). An E&C thread from a few years ago comes to mind, where the response to an article about a rape case was universal outrage... until someone looked up the actual details a few weeks later.

The fact that this girl insists that she has a case makes me wonder if she actually is clueless (entirely possible), or if she has some real evidence the teacher intentionally mis-handled her grade (also possible). I trust a judge/jury more than any journalist writing about the case, so we'll see.

[Tunnelcat]

You could be right Foil. I've had a few teachers in the past that had something against me for one reason or another and they reflected their "disapproval" with a low grade. Case in point, my high school gym teacher. I was never very athletic and didn't do so well in sports. I was small bodied, didn't have the best coordination and didn't have a lot of stamina and she always seemed to rag on me special and give me C's for my efforts. I wasn't a slouch, I tried, but I wasn't a prime athlete either.

Then, something happened. I took auto shop class and got good at it. I offered one time to fix her car for her. Well, lo and behold, I got in her good graces and started getting B's and A's all of a sudden. Did I suddenly get better at athletics? Nope. Did I essentially grease my skids to get those better grades? It appears that way.

[Sergeant Thorne]

Or maybe she wasn't convinced you were trying until she got a better opinion of your personality. Do you think she could have been trying to use grades as negative reinforcement? People are funny like that.

[Ferno]

heard about this and fell out of my chair laughing.

Giving her any response is validating it, and it'll just feed her ego. I hope this lawsuit gets thrown out and she gets charged with wasting the courts' time.

[vision]

I can see more of this happening in the future as colleges and universities market their programs as "products" and the fact you are severely impeded by not having a degree, thus forced into an unjust and laughably overpriced system. Doesn't matter, education as we see it today is doomed, thanks to online universities. I have the same sympathy for them as the RIAA -- none.

[woodchip]

I see more of this happening as public schools try to promote equality so failure is not a experience K-12 students need fear.

[Tunnelcat]

Or maybe she wasn't convinced you were trying until she got a better opinion of your personality. Do you think she could have been trying to use grades as negative reinforcement? People are funny like that.

Not a chance. Before I became useful, she usually just ragged on me to work harder. But once I got on her "good side", I was a "friend" that was lavished with rewards and far less of the haranguing. I didn't suddenly get better at athletics either, so there's no other explanation. I'd became teacher's pet.

[callmeslick]

the reason I chose the words I did at the outset is that Graduate School is and always has been a place where departmental politics and personality politics play a role in the outcome. That's just the way it works.

[Tunnelcat]

REJECTED

[Foil]

Wow, that came down quickly. Looks like she really was clueless.

[Tunnelcat]

Or spoiled.

[Ferno]

haha nice. judge was all like zip flop slap.