For the first two weeks or so of the school year, I thought my english three honors teacher was AMAZING. She was so nice and gave us good notes to take and gave us our first test about three weeks into the school year. I was confident that I would get a good grade, she even let us write the essay the night before and hand it in that day. I spent about three hours on my essay and about two studying for the test, and I was so excited to hand in the essay and take the test because I thought i spent sufficient time on every part. The test was harder than I expected and I knew I got some wrong, but I thought the essay would make up for it. I ended up getting a 50/60 on the test portion, and a 0/20 on the essay. I had no clue what I did wrong! I went to her the next day after stressing out about it all night, and she gave me the most vague answer, I can't even remember what she said. She gave me a chance to redo it, but said the max amount of points I could get was 10. I haven't gotten this back yet, but I still don't understand how an essay that I worked so hard on could be worth no points at all! I could've not done an essay at all and get the same score. Tell me what you think about this.
Wow...unfair grades by unfair teachers.
By forget_the_scene - Posted on October 1st, 2007
You need to work harder.
I spend more than 3 hours on some of my blog entries.
that seems really insensitive. sure, i spend more than 3 hours on some of my blogs as well, but your tone is condescending to this person, and just boils down to being disrespecful.
a grade of 0 for an assignment that was completed (unless your essay was supposed to be about, say, elephants and you wrote about tree frogs) doesn't make sense, and if you really care about this, you need to talk to your teacher and get a straight answer out of her. end of story.
--stacie
Comradesquirrel, you are right... I am sorry for being disrespectful to the original blogger. : (
I just feel as though only 3 hours on an essay assignment, and 2 hours studying for an exam is disrespectful to your teacher. She sounds like she really cares, and works very hard to teach a good class. Why should you go from thinking she is great, to disliking her just because you didn't put enough effort into an assignment?
I'm not sure why she would give you a 0/20. The above poster is right... the only one who can answer that question is your teacher. Communicating with her rather than complaining here is the best way to resolve it.
I did, i sent her an email as well and went back to her the next day about it, so it's not like i'm not doing anything about it. And that three hours was just writing the essay, that doesn't include all the prewriting I did. And I don't dislike my teacher because of it now, I just thought that what she did was completely unfair. And I'm not trying to complain, I'm just saying that giving me a 0 on something that I spent so much time on is completely ridiculous. And we got the assignment on a Monday and it was due Tuesday, so I had to do that on top of a lot more homework that I had due, and I was up until about three oclock doing it. Plus I'm a dancer so I had rehearsal from 6-8. So it's not like I had time to put more than the four or four and a halfish hours that I spent on it.
For real your teacher is ridiculous if she cannot even give you the time to tell you why you did not get a grade, and what you can do better next time shows the kind of teachers we have. I would demand to know why, because it may seem insignificant to her but that 0 grade can really change your grade and affect you. Your teacher should not have been vague and should have told you. By the way 3 hours on an essay is sufficient, just because someone took less time than someone else doesn't mean that their essay wasn't good or that they didn't try hard.
How does working 3 hours on assignment mean no effort was given you sound pretty ridiculous to me.