<p>are reasons why teachers fail students deliberately</p>
<p>They’re immature. </p>
<p>A friend I know had a brother that aced a particular course. Well, my friend signs up for the same class and the instructor instantly hates him. He proceeds to score top marks in the class, but he still fails him. My friend went to the dean but had no luck. How do I know? I was sitting next to the guy comparing test results. While I got an A, he got an F and went on academic probation. </p>
<p>A year later though the guy quit teaching.</p>
<p>They’re horrible people who abuse their powers.</p>
<p>I was complaining at work about how one of my friends failed a class that she studied super hard for and I was told by my boss (who works in the academic sector of the university) that tenured professors go up for review every six years.</p>
<p>So theoretically, once a professor is tenured, if you have him that first or second year, you’ll already be graduated and out by the time anything is done about getting him fired.</p>
<p>That’s a lot of job security. Half a decade’s worth. As such, most don’t abuse that power, but there are those in the world who just enjoy making others suffer… and professors can fall into that category.</p>
<p>If you plagiarize, they will fail you. If they suspect you of plagiarizing, they might fail you as well. One of my professors will even write unsolicited anti-recommendation letters to peoples’s graduate/professional schools if they cheated (assuming she finds out where they applied). Harsh? Perhaps, but if they plagiarized, they deserve it. </p>
<p>I haven’t really heard of a problem where an instructor will deliberately fail for anything other than cheating. If it was a subjectively graded course, some people might get graded down (by which I mean, the instructor won’t go out of their way to help the person out. No grade bumps, no rounding up), but never failed, if the instructor didn’t like them…</p>
<p>If it’s an English class, I understand why.</p>
<p>I assume you failed an English course. In which case, it seems justified. I realize English may be your second language, but that doesn’t mean you get special favors on native English courses.</p>
<p>Wow, that’s incredible that the professor writes an anti-recommendation letter.</p>
<p>I’ve never heard of anyone doing anything like that.</p>
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<p>Professors are people. They have the same problems that other people do. If you google professor and various crimes, you’ll find news articles on professors accused of rape, murder, stealing, plagiarism, etc.</p>
<p>I had a professor in a class a long time ago that I was taking to get an easy A. I was not impressed with his knowledge of the material [I was a professional in the area]. A few years later he called me for a professional recommendation and pointers for openings in my company. I declined. Professors are not gods. Though power sometimes corrupts.</p>