<p>^If you are accused of cheating, it then goes to an honor board of some sorts. If the teacher suspects something, they will normally just knock your grade rather than deal with that whole mess, so if you say “fine, lets go” they usually realize you have nothing to hide. I had this happen to me once with some homework that the teacher thought I was using a solutions manual because I set up this statics problem the same way the book did…well it was all calculus, and there aren’t that many ways to do an integral, so I let her know that. She said then that she knew I wasn’t cheating because out of all the people she did that to, I was the only one that actually came to her about it.</p>
<p>^Exactly. That is the normal process. @Mamaronek, I wasn’t threatening in an “i’m gonna get you for this” way, just saying that I knew I didn’t do anything wrong so let’s let someone impartial decide. It proved to him that I didn’t cheat because I was willing to involve someone else. I understood it was his job to check things like that, and it’s my job to prove that I didn’t if it was suspected, so I didn’t take offense and neither did he - that’s how you don’t burn bridges.</p>
<p>Yeah, being accused of cheating is one of those legitimate instances when you can and should fight tooth and nail, and it’s totally justifiable. There’s a very big difference between defending yourself and being an annoying tool.</p>
<p>Ok, it is funny how half the people here act like they now me and try to lecture. This teacher has constantly been getting bad evaluations and also has been criticized for playing favorites in class. So obviously, it is more than my own problem.(By the way I talked with him and he raised my grade to an A-). I fight for what I deserve and so far it has worked for me and it is the same at my workplace, the internship I am doing atm. So no matter what you’ll say I am going to stick to my ways.</p>
<p>Good for you. How did you manage to get your grade changed? Share your strategy and method, please.</p>
<p>My experience in talking with a crotchety tenured, die-case-set-in-his-ways old fart yielded nothing, except hate (from me). Other students told me to fuhgeddaboutit with this ‘prof’. sheesh.</p>
<p>While I agree that some of what the OP posted can be construed as having an attitude…</p>
<p>I can totally understand why she was upset with getting a B+ in that class. If I had a higher percentage than someone else (and I knew it for a fact) yet they got a higher grade, I’d certainly ask for it to be changed. It looks like it was just the professor miscalculating the grade (thinking it was an 84, not an 87.5), and was too lazy to initially correct the mistake. OP- I’m glad it worked out for you.</p>
<p>That being said, there are appropriate vs. inappropriate ways to handle talking to a professor in this situation. But I don’t really think posts on a CC board can really give insight into the OP’s character to the extent in which she was insulted/slammed here…</p>
<p>manee89: You sound like country…country music that is: Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom…my teacher hates me…but my boyfriend loves me…boom, boom, boom, boom…I fight my teacher and he gives me A- boom, boom, boom, boom…</p>
<p>Seriously, we judge your character based upon your posting. The vibe being drummed up is so loud and clear that it needs somekind of an attitude adjustment if you need to survive in a professional world. John Mc Cain (Rep) and Howard Dean (Dem) have the same character flaw and therefore they could not be elected as US Pres. They are both smart, experience and educated but both of them are “angry white men”.</p>
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Great, your teacher improved your grade! That doesn’t always happen, so it’s really something to be able to make them do that (no joke).
But I guarantee you would have more success if your first reaction to a B+ that you eventually successfully argued into an A- was anything other than “my teacher hates me and is being unfair.”</p>
<p>^^^^^That.</p>