Reply to About to blow my top with my D's university.....

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "About to blow my top with my D's university....."

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can't believe that your daughter was called an "idiot" (see pp above) for getting a "D."

How would you like to be his/her daughter?

And society wonders why kids use performance enhancing drugs/cheat/commit suicide.

[/quote]

DP. A grade of 'D' is reserved for the kids who have failed to learn even the bare minimum of material for the class. It's expected that everyone in the class has the capacity to pass.

If her daughter couldn't handle the university, she should have gone somewhere easier. [/quote]

NP. For all anyone here knows, the DD had one crappy professor who taught horribly or graded viciously--yes, there really are some arrogant a$$es teaching, who believe it toughens kids up to grade them as harshly as possible. And there are some idiot professors who do things like assure students, don't worry, you did OK, I just haven't finalized the grades yet, etc.

For all anyone here knows, the DD might have had fine grades through all of college and this one D is an aberration-- assuming that "she couldn't handle the university" as if she had tanked for four straight years is just stupid. You do not know the specifics around this one grade.

While it does seem that the DD should have kept closer tabs on things, do PPs blaming and blasting her really believe everyone who is getting out of college and moving immediately into an internship and job, as OP's DD was, is focusing anywhere but on those things? I understand why OP and the DD feel blindsided. Why didn't the university tell the student sooner that there was a problem? The line about how she can ONLY make up the credit AT the university sounds like a BS attempt to suck tuition out of her and to let the university preen itself over its "standards."

OP, university students are consumers and as such your DD needs to tell them she will work with them to fix this, but she has a full-time job (the goal of the education--right?) so they need to work with her on another route to that credit. She also should consider an appeal especially since the university took so long to notify her.

[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics