MY son got a 89.55 B+ in a course........

[Anonymous]

Is there anything he can do? He emailed the professor To boost his grade to an A-. no respond from the professor he emailed the Dean and will be posting this on Tiktok.. Is there anything else he can do?

[Anonymous]

Mine was a master of this exact grade in high school. Cost him a whole tier of colleges.

[Anonymous]

Why would you post about your bad grade on Tik tok?

[Anonymous]

If I were the professor, I would stick to this grade. Who does your son think he is, complaining on social media as if this was a bad experience at a hotel?!?

If a student comes to request a little more work to hoist his grade up, then the prof could be willing to work with him. But nothing comes for free, and complaining is incredibly inappropriate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mine was a master of this exact grade in high school. Cost him a whole tier of colleges.

Sadly, same.

At least 9-10 quarter grades between 89.3 and 90.2, I’d estimate. And at least 1/2 of them were between 89.30 and 84.49 … every last one due to multiple assignments that were completed but not submitted … refused to seek out the teacher to explore whether anything could be done - every single time. The opposite of the kid who advocates the cover off the ball for their own interests.

Play with fire, expect to get burned.

[Anonymous]

He can work harder in his classes next semester. He earned an 89.55 in this class. Without a time machine, he can only focus on doing better in the future.

[Anonymous]

Ha! That's nothing. I got a 93 B. The graded down on the curve after the fact. Spoke to the dean nothing I could do. Academia is so corrupt.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why would you post about your bad grade on Tik tok?

My first thought.
Bizarre

[Anonymous]

Wait, he's in college? Why are you involved in this at all?

[Anonymous]

Sucks but know he knows: he’s an adult, in college, grow up already and stop calling mommy about your grades.

[Anonymous]

There have to be cut offs with each grade. He earned a B+. Let’s reverse it. He could have studied harder. He could have read and re-read the chapters and taken notes better. Did he attend every class and sit in the front and raise his hand every class? The grade is on him! Don’t make the professor out to be a bad guy. Also, you want to show respect to your professor, not try to shame them on the internet. His next job prospect will see that attitude and it will bite him in the butt even harder. He earned the 89% and he should settle down. The A’s were probably 90-100. And, the B’s were probably 80-89.9999. Yes, it stings that he was close, but this is fair to have a grade cut-off. Let it be incentive to work harder next term. But, please discourage TikTok nonsense. That will end up making him look bad and nothing goes away from the internet. It’s always there. Always. Teach your kid to be better than that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is there anything he can do? He emailed the professor To boost his grade to an A-. no respond from the professor he emailed the Dean and will be posting this on Tiktok.. Is there anything else he can do?

typically you can’t argue one letter grade, you must have a strong enough argument to jump 2 grades up, otherwise, everyone would argue in every class. He needs a better argument than ‘I was near the A grade.’

[Anonymous]

You get the grade you earn. He earned a B +. End of.

Are you and your son going to behave this way at his evaluation for his first job, too?

[Anonymous]

As a prof I always round up. Guess that's just me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mine was a master of this exact grade in high school. Cost him a whole tier of colleges.

Same. Mine is also the queen of missing national awards for testing by literally one question. So painful.