What the #$^%@? (long prof vent)

Venting here before I compose a nice, calm, diplomatic e-mail to the professor of my current college course. But here is what I would LIKE to say:

Dear Prof,

What the heck is your problem? To blatantly ignore requests posted both in the public forum is appalling. Further, ignoring or not deigning to reply to private e-mailis distinctly unprofessional. It is a reasonable f@#$ing request. Consider my submission for a grade, damn it. I worked very hard developing that analysis.

How the f@#$ did you get “You indicated that you did not want DQ#3 graded, because you were going to change it.” from a small side note accompanying a submission stating, “*NOTE: I had an especially tough time with this one since a search in the Adobe document (Organizational Behavior, 7th Ed.) did not have any hits for ‘Friedman’ except in the source notes as bibliographies. And an internet search of ‘Friedman Managerial Capitalism’ turned up several DIFFERENT authors named Friedman. I hereby reserve the right to append, correct, or otherwise wholly re-write this DQ prior to COB on Tuesday 03/18. *” is totally BEYOND me. Maybe, just maybe, by some stretch of the imagination I could understand that you would interpret it that way but your total silence regarding my request makes me wonder if you’re holding a grudge or some other personal bias?!

It was your block-headed insistence that the information was in the text, when it was NOT in the bloody text as I pointed out, “In our last class, [administration] assured our facilitator that the online version of the eResource text was the same as the printed text, which was not the case. What version of the text are you using, please? Should I go order a hardcopy book so that I am not missing some of the resource material?” Without admitting that for the first seven days of a five week course you were WRONG, you simply said, "Use the online text. Don’t buy extra books for this class, we can make adjustments if need be. " In point of fact, DEAR sir, it was not in the hardcopy version either (I was trying to give you an easy out) - we can only imagine where you pulled your information from! We students all had varying forms of the text (hardcopy, e-text, download) and NONE of them had the info in it.

And let’s not forget, Throned One, that of the NINE students you started with five (5!!) dropped out after the first week - and three of those five directly cited both your manner and requirements as reasons for their withdrawal.

It’s a freaking FIVE WEEK course. You have not responded to my request that this submission should be considered in OVER A WEEK. I know you’ve seen the request, and you have also been posting and answering other students’ posts and e-mails. HAVE I BRUISED YOUR LITTLE EGO?!? Are you just not sure how to get it RIGHT? Please, sir, let me HELP you figure this out. I will be more than happy to hold your head in the toilet and flush until whatever is clogging your little brain clears away.

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CasperQ
If anyone has comments, I’ll be happy to post the REAL LIFE versions of what I wrote. They’re a lot nicer than what I FEEL like writing. And…

[sub] Lord help me if my prof is on this board. [/sub]

OK…

So you add this note to your submission:

I hereby reserve the right to append, correct, or otherwise wholly re-write this DQ prior to COB on Tuesday 03/18

and you’re surprised when the guy doesn’t grade it?

Why don’t you send him a note that says: You can grade whatever version is the last one I sent to you, or the one I sent in on the 18th (or whenever the hell you actually sent the one you want graded in).

Why would you submit an assignment that isn’t complete (by YOUR OWN reasoning) anyway?

Take a chill pill, man.

The assignment was (in his words) from the text. The information and references were NOT in the text. Therefore my (and ALL of the other students’) assignments were reasearched online.

I have sent him a note asking him to grade it, to which he hasn’t responded.

I did not need to revise it, since the research I did online was exactly what he was looking for (fortunately). I was simply reserving the right to revise in case he posted further (correct) information about where data should be found.

You’re right that I should ‘Take a chill pill.’ I tend to get overly frustrated since I am a single mother, working full time, with my daughter’s after-school activities in full swing right now and college is IMPORTANT enough to me to try and pursue. To be penalized by the professor is frustrating.

I am not the only person who added a note to their submission regarding the availability of the data - I am simply the only one who didn’t get a grade for my submission.

College important to me, and apparently more important to me than it is to him. I get ONE chance at the college tuition and, if I fail a class, my work will no longer pay for school. If they won’t pay for it, I don’t get to go – I don’t have the income or the childcare options to go to college in any other way.

I can see the OUTSIDE chance that he would’ve interpreted that note as ‘don’t grade my paper,’ but then he likewise should not have graded at least two other papers if that was his reasoning.

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