The past nine weeks have been difficult for me. I had instructor in school who was pretty tough, I can handle that, but what I can't handle is being failed in a class when the instructor consistently changed how she graded, didn't offer advice and came off as petty and annoyed when questions were asked. Her notes in the assignments were good, helpful but outside of assignments, the feedback was not good. Upon failing me she posts a note that says "Best Regards". She knew that she failed me, she knew that I needed to be at 80% or higher to pass the class and keep moving forward with the program.
I am now stuck in a limbo, waiting. I've contacted my academic adviser, the committee that deals with student issues has already contacted the instructor to see if the grades are final or if she is willing to look at them again, she said they are final. Now I'm waiting for the grade dispute, it should have begun yesterday. A couple of days ago I sent nine attachments with a summary for each attachment to my adviser, these will be used for the grade dispute.
During the class there were multiple group assignments. I was the team lead on at least three of them. The school has programs for checking grammar and for plagiarism. I used them both for the assignments, made the corrections and then put the corrected info back into the assignment. When the assignment came back, after grading, all the corrections I made were not actually corrected. This happened two weeks in a row until I realized that the problem was with the program. I contacted the instructor and posted about the problem in the group. The instructor refused to reconsider the grade, she didn't ask about seeing the report from fixing the errors. Another issue was that she changed the requirements of an assignment but didn't say anything. My group followed the assignment instructions and then were told that part of it didn't count, the part she excluded and docked points for, she said we didn't have enough content. I finished this class with 78.4%, it's a program requirement that the grades stay at 80% or higher to remain in the program.
Next steps. I am hoping to hear back Monday about the grade dispute. I am hoping that the information I sent to my adviser will get the points I need back so that I will have passed the classed. If I do not get these two points back after the grade dispute then I will have to take this class over again, along with doing a couple other things, the new class won't start until November 27th. This break in the class flow is going to set me back a couple months. I'm supposed to be finishing my degree in December 2020, this delay will put finishing to the beginning of 2021.
At this point all I can do is wait. I'm trying to keep myself busy outside of work, which isn't easy, I mainly spend time watching movies and Netflix. Once I'm back in class I can refocus my time again.
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