Thoughts on grading midterms

[brigdh]

1. How do you not know the name of your own species?! We said again and again and again that only modern humans ever lived in the Americas, so if I have to read one more essay about the migration of Homo erectus into Canada, I will hunt these people down and kill them in their sleep. Yes.

2. Mexico is not in South America. No, really. I don't care how many people write this down, it is still not true.

3. Similarly, New Zealand is not and has never been part of Australia.

4. Jesus Christ, people, mammoths have nothing to do with the beginnings of farming. Where did you even get this theory from?

5. No, Australia was not first inhabited "just before WWII".

6. WTF.

ETA: 7. The end of the Ice Age != end of the world.

Comments

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

I think I had that same woman on the last midterm! She too got a C, and argued with me about it for 45 minutes, then went to the professor and argued for a similar amount of time, and then came back to me and argued for some more. This despite the fact that she began her essay with an incorrect statement and continued in a similar vein.

Thankfully I am not grading her test this time.

The sense of entitlement of some people is really impressive.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Mine burst into tears at one point, too, probably about the time she pulled out the "I work 3 jobs to attend this school!" which mostly made me wonder why anyone would want to attend it that badly.

I just couldn't believe the "I deserve an A!" logic about her being an business major.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

I'm grateful that no one has cried at me yet, because I would have a hard time refusing to change a grade. I am weak in the presence of tears.

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

Maybe she thought she was improving her negotiating skills.