Saturday, May 29, 2010

Well, it's a brand new day. I wonder what wh**y email I'll get from a student today?

I just got another really spiteful-sounding email from a student complaining about her grade. Here's what she wrote:

"I wrote it (i.e. the paper) on the Clerk's tale and emailed it to you three times as an attachment and then finally just inserted the text itself into an email. I know it had to have gotten to you that way."

Once I got that email, I apologized and corrected the grade immediately. I corrected it as soon as I got the email. But I'm still shaken by the venom and presumption about my intentions. "I know it had to have gotten to you that way?"

She is mistaken. If I had seen it, of course I would have read and given her credit for it. Why would I not?

Our students seem to believe we are out gunning for them. They want to believe it. And yet that's so not true: I want all my students to succeed, and I'm so proud and happy when they do. That's why I went into this field.

And it only takes one of them to take all that away.

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