<p>In class the other day, my teacher got very upset with the class because not a single person did the homework that was "assigned." I put assigned in quotations, because no one was aware there was any homework (besides finishing an essay). Our teacher claimed he put it on the online calendar, which 1) is unreliable because we have had tests/other assignments that have never been posted on the calendar and 2) is confusing because it is never constant and revisions are added to it constantly. As a class, we feel that homework should be verbalized in class and not in an unreliable source. An email would have at least been a lot clearer.
Needless to say, our teacher gave everyone a zero, dropping all of our grades by 7 points....so one full letter grade. He said he would not accept any late work for it, and in my opinion acting very unprofessionally in his handling of the matter. He made a point to ignore my classmates' questions and then gave us individual grade printouts to make us feel terrible about how low our grades had dropped. Is there any reasonable manner to handle this? My friend approached him a few days after the incident and he remained firm in his decision to refuse any submissions of the assignment</p>
<p>Wow, that is unfair and unprofessional on the teacher’s part. At my school, only homework that is written on the board needs to be completed, because some kids do not have access to internet or a computer at home to check the homework. If this is his first time assigning the homework online without talking about it, I would reason that with him. Also, if it is really important to you, I would get parents involved since that’s when they usually back down. If not, then I would get administrators not because of the homework so much, but more because of his unprofessionalism. But I don’t know the context of the situation, I can’t help you too much there but maybe try sweet talking with him, or maybe get your whole class to reason with him. </p>
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<p>If he said at the beginning of the class that homework assignments would be posted online, then people probably should have been checking. People without access to a computer/Internet would have come forward at that time.</p>
<p>there are so many glitches with computers. maybe someone’s computer breaks, or the internet’s down. there are so many excuses for people to use. it’s really his fault for allowing these errors to affect his assignments. why can’t he just assign hw in class? is he unprepared or something? what’s even the point of that?</p>
<p>If absolutely NO ONE in the class did the assignment or saw an assignment posted, then there appears to be a problem that was not the students’ fault. Is there some way you can go to a slightly higher level with the complaint without the teacher feeling like you are going behind their back about it?</p>