<p>And for the record, I do regret being so forward about the website I linked to earlier that revealed her identity, perhaps that was a bit much.</p>
<p>I agree with MYOS1634. To be fair, he didn’t say you were an entitled person who coasted their way through life, just that’s how you come off in your posts. None of us know the tone or attitude you actually convey to your teacher/dept. head, so they’re only basing this on things you have posted. Attacking people on here when you don’t like what they’re saying gives people on here a bad impression that maybe you think everyone is out to get you. I’m not saying that’s true, but that’s just the general impression we’re getting. If I’m reading correctly, it doesn’t sound like the grade you received is actually unfair, but you want to review it to see if there’s any errors to it. Depending on if you still have another year at this school, fighting it to the end might be a bad idea and might cause the dean and subsequently all faculty to not be on your side for future classes. I know it’s not fair, but sometimes that’s how life is. I hope you can get things resolved, and that this doesn’t hurt your future in any way. Good luck.</p>
<p>hi MKgoggins: to be clear, I never meant you <em>were</em> lazy or immature or anything of the kind. However we don’t know you and since you’re bringing a petition to the Dean, I wanted you to know that’s how you <em>sound</em> here on CC. We don’t know you and I think all of us here are sympathetic to your plight. But if you want to proceed with a reasonable chance of success, my advice is to remain calm, behave like one asking for a favor, and to back your request with numbers - for example, see whether there is a big discrepancy in grade distribution between your section and others.
BTW, teachers do have all kinds of internal reviews and reprimands and evaluations. For all you know this teacher may be stuck teaching Health as a penalty for being really bad in another course. 
However, assigning a grade that is lower than what the student believes s/he deserves does not, on its own, deserve a penalty. Complaining students are pretty much par for the course.
(There’s a study that showed that typically the students who complain the most are not the students who got a C, but those who got a B+ and A- and feel they deserved an A because they worked very hard, did as well as they possibly could, and always got A’s in high school so can’t accept college is different. So to the Dean you must have sounded like the literally tens of thousands of complainers s/he’s fielded in his/her career…)
If you want a chance to be heard and not pass for a problem student who demands undeserved As, you need to back your claims and be very rational about it. “threat to society” shouldn’t be used nor should any inflammatory language, nothing that can be considered subjective but only objective data and hard numbers.
If you think there is a small error in calculation you can ask for a grade review, for example - but you must be aware that nowadays there are programs that do the math so unless the horrible teacher got a line wrong somewhere (which is entirely possible since she didn’t seem all that detail-oriented and caring when it came to your class :p) it’s unlikely. I actually don’t know how these programs work, if they’re like Excel or clearer or whatever but I do know educators no longer rely on pencil and calculators, the calculations are made for them. If your class was big and you had “scantron” exam sheets, a machine computed your score. Machines and programs don’t make mistakes so if you can’t show there was a human error you’re stuck.
Bringing each exam with its grade on it (even if there wasn’t any comment) might also help you back your claim.
As for “free thinking”, I’m not quite sure what it has to do with the topic, honestly. This is not a matter of conforming or submitting to authority or rebelling… it’s a matter of calculations. Either there is a real problem that can be proved, or not. If you can’t prove it, don’t get into a fight.
(NB: As for “free thinking”, here is something contradictory:
She may be a good teacher in other subjects - I once had a professor who was the best for philosophical texts but for basic composition she was #~^@. It was amazing how different she was in one class and in the other. (I asked her why she taught that basic class since she very obviously didn’t like it and was fantastic teaching philosophical texts - I tried not to say "whereas you were terrible for the remedial freshmen 
- and she said she didn’t have a choice, classes were assigned.) )
If that teacher (instructor? professor?) is still in place it may well be because there’s a reason. That reason could be as simple as “the only person willing to teach a boring introductory freshman class for $400/month”. If that’s the case, the teacher is there to stay.</p>
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<p>Oh wahhhhhhh :rolleyes:</p>
<p>She sounds like a sad bitter woman whose only joy in life comes out of dominating her students. Report her to the dean. But then wipe your hands of her. She sounds like an intolerable woman.</p>
<p>This thread is making me laugh. I one time got a 89.6 in a class and I didn’t go on a tirade. We all have bad professors and sometimes we get B’s. You’re still an above average student with a 3.9.</p>