Professor Regrets His Grading System Policy After Student Maliciously Complies And Only Sends Him The Title Page For Their Assignment
Different professors have different teaching styles. And some, like one of Reddit user RedditAdminDumb87‘s, have developed their own grading system, too.
But as tax-evading billionaires would agree, policies are built to be exploited.
So after finding a loophole, the Redditor decided to hand in just the title page for their last class assignment. However, I guess the professor took it as a personal insult because he started bending the rules to dismay the student from getting their way.
Continue scrolling to read the post RedditAdminDumb87 submitted to the platform’s community ‘Malicious Compliance,’ where they detail how it all took place!
This student took advantage of his professor’s grading system
Image credits: Olia Danilevich (not the actual photo)
And they got into a huge argument over it
It got so heated, even the department chair got involved
Image credits: Andrea Piacquadio (not the actual photo)
Credits: redditadmindumb87
The original poster (OP) provided more information on the whole ordeal in the comments
As the story went viral, quite a few folks said they had been in a similar situation
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I was a college professor for almost 20 years and I totally agree with the student here. The syllabus is a contract. Neither party can change the terms of it. If a student doesn't like it, they can always drop the course after the first day. But the professor is obligated to uphold the terms that s/he laid out.
True but the PURPOSEof the courseis to learn. What this guy did, and perhaps the policy itself, is to focus solely on grades and not on learning. Spend all that time and money on the course and then spend half your time trying to learn as little as possible seems self defeating.
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Guys like this are why course syllabi get longer every year. Every rules-lawyer you get, that's another paragraph of fine print you have to add.
Yes! And now students are complaining at 50-60 page long documents that cover everything so you cannot find anything.
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I was a college professor for almost 20 years and I totally agree with the student here. The syllabus is a contract. Neither party can change the terms of it. If a student doesn't like it, they can always drop the course after the first day. But the professor is obligated to uphold the terms that s/he laid out.
True but the PURPOSEof the courseis to learn. What this guy did, and perhaps the policy itself, is to focus solely on grades and not on learning. Spend all that time and money on the course and then spend half your time trying to learn as little as possible seems self defeating.
Load More Replies... Guys like this are why course syllabi get longer every year. Every rules-lawyer you get, that's another paragraph of fine print you have to add.
Yes! And now students are complaining at 50-60 page long documents that cover everything so you cannot find anything.
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