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

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................

My reaction can be summed up thusly:

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Sergeant Thorne wrote: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.

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.

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

Or spoiled.

haha nice. judge was all like zip flop slap.