katie,
sry 2 bother u. i jus saw my grade for my paper & im wondering y i got such a bad grade. thx
Umm...seriously?? Is this kid for real? Well, sadly he is. Because he resent me the same email twice. Apparently, his first email sent at 12:30am that I didn't reply to wasn't good enough so he resent it at 10:30am. Ridiculous. I don't even know where to start with explaining to him why he got the grade he did. What I really want to do is contact his high school English teachers and ask why they gave him any passing grades to obviously teach him/allow him to write the way he does now. Awful.
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It seems that what "they" (whoever they might be...) have been saying over the past 5-10 years really is true about the dwindle down of our education systems. Blame text messaging, blame instant messaging, blame the media, the kids friends or whoever you want. Clearly something is happening here. And it is not good. It's one thing for this kid to send me an email using short hand and slang language. Fine, that I can deal with. But when he and plenty of other students also use that same short hand and slang IN THEIR PAPERS....that is NOT ok! And then for them to be pissed off at me when I give them a C- grade for their papers. Get outta town punks. Go back to high school, learn how to write a paper and then come back when you're ready. Mind you, this class I'm a TA for is a general education course. It shouldn't be hard!! If they think I'm a hard ass or a bitch, have fun the next three years taking classes for your major. Good luck to you future 5th and 6th year seniors who can't pass a class because you can't write a paper. Don't blame me. Blame yourself. Kudos to all the teachers in any grade level, no matter the subject. You can only do so much each year with all of the education funding cuts happening all of the place, I get it. I guess it's true that you can only help someone who is willing to help themselves. And I guess this group of freshmen are learning that the hard way. Welcome to college, kiddos.
