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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So, PP, what happened?  Did the kid fail?  (He should have, in my opinion.)

I am fascinated by the psychology of parents who believe their kids can do no wrong, and automatically take their sides without any sort of critical thinking.  My parents were both public school teachers, and if I was disciplined in school their default was to believe the teacher.  If it turned out that I was being unfairly targeted, they'd have come to my defense - hard - but their initial reaction was most certainly not, "Oh, not MY daughter - she couldn't possibly do THAT."  Any parent who says that is just an idiot.

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I'm pretty sure he failed unless someone way above DH's pay grade modified things well after the semester was over based on all of the letters the mother wrote.  I think the final was something like 30% of the grade and the student had not been on track for an A at all, so I think the 0 would have definitely resulted in a failing grade.  I think the last involvement my DH had was helping the Dean compile all the correspondence and such in hard copy to send over to the legal folks for the University, but I think that was due to the mother writing letters to someone up the ladder, not due to an actual lawsuit.  [/quote]

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