Post by Wolf on Jan 9, 2004 22:09:31 GMT 7
Well, after much correcting, I submitted my marks to my liason officer, dean and some lady who is even higher up in the department than my dean. Anyway out of 290 or so students only 6 failed. They were all from the literature classes (total combined 200 students, the rest were speaking classes.) My dean said that my pass to fail ratio sounded "just about right" so I guess I both a) did my job and b) didn't inadvertently step on any toes.
This lady co-signed each one of my mark sheets, in front of me. Apparently, my university is serious about marks being above board.
I tend to be a wuss of a marker. If a student attends all the classes, and makes obvious improvements I tend to be merciful when it comes to borderline cases. Still, there are those who just didn't do well enough to pass.
Well, that leaves me now, with my marks all submitted and everything. So one of the students I failed calls me tonight and wants a re-test. He had already talked to the department, and they told me to call me.
I don't feel happy about failing people. But, to be frank, he (and the others) deserved it.
So, if all things were equal, I'd just blow him off. It was his choice not to come to class, to make mistakes I explicitly warned about, to ignore all the things we went over in class, etc.
But does that make me an imperialistic oppressor, taking away some guy's only chance at getting ahead? Or am I taking my job too seriously, do you think?
For what it's worth, two of the other FEs have been gone for days and are obviously not giving re-tests. Also my dean told me that he actually has failed more of the students in the same group than I have (he taught the same students linguistics, while I taught them British/American literature.)
Okay, I've said enough. Go nuts. Let me know what you'd do (and what you actually do/did in similar situations.)
This lady co-signed each one of my mark sheets, in front of me. Apparently, my university is serious about marks being above board.
I tend to be a wuss of a marker. If a student attends all the classes, and makes obvious improvements I tend to be merciful when it comes to borderline cases. Still, there are those who just didn't do well enough to pass.
Well, that leaves me now, with my marks all submitted and everything. So one of the students I failed calls me tonight and wants a re-test. He had already talked to the department, and they told me to call me.
I don't feel happy about failing people. But, to be frank, he (and the others) deserved it.
So, if all things were equal, I'd just blow him off. It was his choice not to come to class, to make mistakes I explicitly warned about, to ignore all the things we went over in class, etc.
But does that make me an imperialistic oppressor, taking away some guy's only chance at getting ahead? Or am I taking my job too seriously, do you think?
For what it's worth, two of the other FEs have been gone for days and are obviously not giving re-tests. Also my dean told me that he actually has failed more of the students in the same group than I have (he taught the same students linguistics, while I taught them British/American literature.)
Okay, I've said enough. Go nuts. Let me know what you'd do (and what you actually do/did in similar situations.)