Hold on there Trigger! We switched Jerrys on you.
Pay attention and keep moving. I didn't suggest anything, just jumped in with a tale of woe. (My solution was to yell at the top of my lungs in the admissions office - and get nicely escorted from the building by a tall, blonde, booted officer. And then find another school) On 2/22/07, Dana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > no but... lots of things are not right. And your solution is worse > than the disease. There is always an academic appeal for the grade. > And given enough complaints even tenure may not be enough. I was told > that my complaint was the eighth or nointh, very similar, and the > powers that be were beginning to see that there was a problem, but > that nothing could specifically be done for me right then and there. > > On 2/22/07, Jerry Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'll give you an actual example from my life. > > > > I was taking a class at the local CC, European History (Middle Ages). > > > > In the fifth week, after 4 weeks of 90 minute rants on how bad Ronald > > Reagan was as a president, I asked if we were ever going to talk about > > European History. > > > > I was kicked out of the class, given an F, and refused a refund on my > > course. > > > > The class _never_ discussed European History at all in the entire > > course. Grades were awarded based on class discussion, higher grades > > were given for agreement with the premise that Reagan was the devil > > (remember the 666 name thing? It was brought out at _every_ class). > > > > Now, the really sad thing was, I agreed with much of what he said (not > > the demagoguery), and it even might have been appropriate in, say, a > > Contemporary History class, or even maybe an American History class. > > > > Besides me being an idiot for mouthing off, was that right at a state > > run school? > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/ Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:228739 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
