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    ok, you guys all know about my PSYCHO teacher.

    well i am BOILING angry right now. we have a huge portfolio due tomorrow, and one of the assignments is a professional identity statement about our views on families. in class, she said it should be 1 1/2 pages. the assignment sheet says about 5 paragraphs, which goes alongwith the 1 1/2 pages. and then the idiot said yesterday to my friend that it should be 3 pages.

    ok wtf. i have emailed her 3 times asking for a response, and emailed the head of the dept, cc'ing my professor on that email so she knows. she wont answer my emails and im starting to get REALLY pissed off. 1 1/2 pages vs 3 pages makes a big difference in what i write, how detailed, whatever. i got an out of office response from the dept head, though. so i have no one else to go to.

    what do i do? just go ahead with the 1 1/2 pages because thats what the assignment sheet says, and use that against her if she argues?

    this isnt the first time shes answered an email about an assignment AFTER it has been turned in. when was freaking out about missing class for court and emailed her, called her, and finally drove all the way to school to see if she was in her office, she told me she "didnt have a chance to get back to me."!!!!!!!!!!!!! i fucking hate this woman so much.

    im definately going above her head after the semester is over. i plan on writing a very long email to the dean since going to the dept head didnt work. but for now, i need to know what you guys would do about the assignment length.

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    I would do two assignments - one that is 3 pages and one that is 1.5 pages.

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    well its not the length that bothers me. i could easily write 3 pages. its just the fact that what i personally was told was a page and a half, so im scared to write more and get in trouble for going over, because she did specifically say to me not to make it any longer than a page and a half.

    if it were a paper that i was concerned about the diff between 10 and 12 pages, that would be different. thats no big deal. but in a paper this short, an extra page and a half makes a huge difference.


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    Double space? 1.5 pages x 2 spaces should = 3 pages.

    If you say that you have no problem writing 3 pages then do so. In fact, you can write 5 slammin' pages and get a gold star sticker.
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    its double spaced anyway.

    again, the first time she specifically said do not make it any longer than 1.5 pages. which is my problem. i dont want to write more because i heard it was supposed to be after she specifically said not to. some teachers take off if you go over the page length. last semester i had a teacher who very clearly told us that we 100% were NOT to go over the limit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sophia_Starina View Post
    Double space? 1.5 pages x 2 spaces should = 3 pages.
    That's the best idea ever.

    I did get a shit grade in high school cause I went on and on for a page and a half on what was supposed to be a paragraph assignment...my teacher crossed it all out except the first paragraph and said "it's also about following directions".

    Ha.

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    Quote Originally Posted by britt244 View Post
    its double spaced anyway.

    again, the first time she specifically said do not make it any longer than 1.5 pages. which is my problem. i dont want to write more because i heard it was supposed to be after she specifically said not to. some teachers take off if you go over the page length. last semester i had a teacher who very clearly told us that we 100% were NOT to go over the limit.
    Okay... since it's all so muddy, call your professor and just ask. Explain the situation. They put their phone numero on the syllabus for a reason. Better get it from the source.
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    I say write both and when you go to turn the assignment ask her personally which one to turn in??!

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    haha, not this woman! i cant even get into it again because she makes me so angry. but she doesnt return phone calls. ive tried in the past.

    she emailed me back anyway, i assume because i cc'ed her on the one to the dept head. she said it was rude and inappropriate to email so much

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    Quote Originally Posted by AudreyLeigh View Post
    I say write both and when you go to turn the assignment ask her personally which one to turn in??!
    thats a good idea and if i hadnt heard from her i'd def do that!!

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    OMG. I feel for you. Seriously.

    cc the department head for every single email so she HAS to respond.

    Deep breath Britt....it's almost over.
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    well it's pretty fucking rude, inappropriate, and unprofessional for her to not return her emails in a timely matter.

    I guess you've already gotten it straightened out, but if you hadn't, I would have done whatever was listed on the syllabus.

    Furthermore, I would write a candidly honest review of her at the end of the semester. Do you guys do reviews? We review our professors and if we sign our name, it gets filed into their permanent record. :haha:

    one more thing. Are you guys able to check the history of your school emails? Like on our email client, I can right click on a message title and it tells me if the message was read and at what time.


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    So she emailed you back? How many pages is the assignment supposed to be? I would have done 1.5 and taken the syllabus in there to show her where it says 1.5, but that's a moot point now.

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    Quote Originally Posted by LoveSexMoney View Post
    well it's pretty fucking rude, inappropriate, and unprofessional for her to not return her emails in a timely matter.
    Seriously WTF?!

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    Was she doing it to be a bitch, or is she also on boards, and involved in other departments and projects? I've had some profs that you just can't get a hold of. But, that's why they make a syllabus, and she needs to honor that if she knows she's busy and unavailable. If I were you, I would turn in the assignment as assigned in the syllabus. 1 and a half pages, typed, double spaced, with a copy of the syllabus attached, said assignment highlighted. She cannot stipulate on a person-to-person basis. If she told that ONE student 3 pages, and didn't announce that to the class, her fault. If she did change the syllabus in class and you weren't there, your bad.
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    ^ to be a bitch. ive had a SHITLOAD of trouble with her this semester.

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    well it's pretty fucking rude, inappropriate, and unprofessional for her to not return her emails in a timely matter.

    I guess you've already gotten it straightened out, but if you hadn't, I would have done whatever was listed on the syllabus.

    Furthermore, I would write a candidly honest review of her at the end of the semester. Do you guys do reviews? We review our professors and if we sign our name, it gets filed into their permanent record. :haha:

    one more thing. Are you guys able to check the history of your school emails? Like on our email client, I can right click on a message title and it tells me if the message was read and at what time.
    i wrote her a horrible review, and i plan to write the dean about her. she has been sending me nasty emails all evening now. i wrote back asking her to please STOP comparing me to other students, as it would be unprofessional to compare professors, and that i honestly wasn't aware that a simple question would cause such an issue.

    i am so upset with the way shes talking to me in these emails that i want to cry.

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    Wow...what's she saying? If she's getting you this upset, she should be reported- NOW.

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    Quote Originally Posted by britt244 View Post
    ^ to be a bitch. ive had a SHITLOAD of trouble with her this semester.



    i wrote her a horrible review, and i plan to write the dean about her. she has been sending me nasty emails all evening now. i wrote back asking her to please STOP comparing me to other students, as it would be unprofessional to compare professors, and that i honestly wasn't aware that a simple question would cause such an issue.

    i am so upset with the way shes talking to me in these emails that i want to cry.
    Keep a copy of everything and present it to the dean with everything else. She doesn't deserve to be so unprofessional and get away with it.

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    Forward them all to the department head AND the Dean. Seriously. That's way unprofessional.
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    Do not respond by email. Print out the emails and take them to your department head or dean. That is pretty much the only way to get attention on the matter.

    You know, no one really pays attention to those reviews. I know, because I got some really mean ones, students write stupid shit, and I cried the first time I read them. However, one student said that my class could have been improved by adding stripper poles and pool tables. Oh, if they had only known.
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    britt, you and I have rarely agreed on may things. However, in this case I really see where you're coming from.

    Check your schools "Academic Grievance/Appeal Procedures" and go from there. Keep a copy of everything. Write out the phone conversations you had with her. Document, document, document.

    Keep in mind that the syllabus is considered a CONTRACT between the student and professor. If you want to contest anything that falls outside of the four corners of your syllabus( like the prof's decision to make the paper 3 pages), you will most likely have a great deal of luck.

    I don't wanna detract from your thread, but I have gone all the way through the academic grievance process, and I won. PM me if you need any help.
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    i just dont know if its worth it. ive had a meeting with the head of the dept and the professor lied. the head took her side and they made me cry. as well as the head of the dept said if i was her child she would be disappointed in me. and then my friend had a meeting with her and my friend made the TEACHER cry, thank god. she deserved it. but they didnt take our side, so i dont know what good any of this will do.

    the evals will matter in her case, sunnie, bc this is her first semester. so she's on a probationary period anyway. they sent someone to PROCTOR our evaluations to make sure we didnt talk to each other! usually the teacher just leaves the room. ive never had a proctor for evals in 4 years.

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    I'm sorry you have to deal with her Britt, I'm having similar problems with one of my professors. He hasn't graded ANY of our assignments or bothered to return emails or phone calls to anyone in over 8 weeks (it's an online class). No idea if I'm passing or failing.

    It's almost over.
    I believe you Dottie and you have my support

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    god, where do they get these people??
    I also am having problems with a moronic prof.
    Yesterday we got our test's back, I compared my test with another student, we had all the same answers. She got a 97% I got a 57%. He graded her wrong answers right. I asked him about it and he said, give me her paper and I'll mark her answers wrong to. I tore the testin half and stormed out. I hate that man.
    thank god it's almost over. one more week.

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    Quote Originally Posted by britt244 View Post
    i just dont know if its worth it. ive had a meeting with the head of the dept and the professor lied. the head took her side and they made me cry. as well as the head of the dept said if i was her child she would be disappointed in me. and then my friend had a meeting with her and my friend made the TEACHER cry, thank god. she deserved it. but they didnt take our side, so i dont know what good any of this will do.

    I don't know which school you go to. However, grievances don't usually end with the Department Chair. In my school, I appealed to the Prof, to the Chair, to the Asst. to the Dean, to the Dean, to the University Senate Committee and then the Vice President (who ultimately agreed with me and changed my grade).

    This took about a semester. Which sucked. Like a lot. But it taught me not to give up, if I truly felt like I was right.

    You can make your own choice about how much energy and time you want to devote to this matter. If I were you, I'd just write a kick ass paper and put this all to bed.
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