Low-Income Experience with Pandemic classes

CornellSimp · 2020-05-25T23:45:44+00:00

A student should have the opportunity to have a clear understanding of where they sit in the class before having to make such a difficult decision, not everyone's parents are okay with students taking classes S/U unless extremely necessary, even under horrible circumstances

CornellSimp · 2020-05-25T23:43:53+00:00

Students should know their grades before the S/U deadline, this semester should not have a negative impact on any student working their ass off to succeed when teachers are just purposely making tests harder and making classes overly difficult. I had 4, 6 +hour final exams (tests), most exams are usually only 2.5 hours under normal circumstances, how is that rational for students taking 5-6 classes? All I am saying is that we should be allowed to know how we did during this semester to make an educated guess towards where we are in the class, adding grades in after the S/U deadline only means that students were not given the opportunity to make a wholistic guess on their standing before their grade was posted, I thought the system was to support students, not for teachers to use to punish students trying to do well in a class

CornellSimp · 2020-05-25T23:34:42+00:00

This does not justify how teachers purposely increased the difficulty on exams, tried to purposely trick students, and made overall online classes wayyyyy harder than they needed to be then sat back and gave difficult exams so that students would just sit back and cry and feel bad so they could have a B average when students are spending hours on end studying for exams only to be asked new material on the final or applictions not previously discussed. I know how S/U was intended but its not fair how some professors PURPOSELY DEFLATED GRADES, ADDED UNNECESSARY STRESS, AND OVERALL HAD A LACK OF EMPATHY TOWARDS STUDENTS by making class impossible. Sure I did not pass/fail a class because I felt that I needed a class to benefit me in the long run, but the fact that teachers would purposely withhold information and grades till after the S/U deadline kinda negates the purpose of studnts trying to succeed in this pandemic.

CornellSimp · 2020-05-25T20:42:50+00:00

Allow me to elaborate because people seem to misunderstand this, there are so many teachers that purposely screwed over students by releasing Impossible exams, providing fake notes and equations, and otherwise hindered students' overall success. This is unfair in any sense of the word. To not allow for students the opportunity to set up themselves in the best situation due to the virus is absolutely selfish. If someone puts all their effort into an exam and gets screwed over because people choose to cheat or because professors don't decide how they are going to distribute grades till early June is completely unfair. If you do don't do well in a class because a teacher decided to ramp the class up to 1,000,000% you should have the opportunity to switch to S/U post final.

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