We have to know how this turned out – when you hear, please post.
To work so hard… and have an “A” going into the final project –
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Thanks Dan. I’ll update as I learn. But in the end, it’s on him. The best thing is that he seems now to really get that it is on him, and is his responsibility.
Last year he made excuses, but now he owns his screwup. I think the lax teaching attitude during covid (his high school years) gave many the impression that it would be the same forever.
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Jet-lag sleep is the best.
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Thanks again @Desert-Dan. He got a 100% in the project and they assessed a 30% penalty. I’m very glad they were willing to consider it at all. That pushed him back around 93%.
Then they finalized the curve and it turns out the bottom for an A grade was about 84% (common for STEM classes - in some of mine, 50% might be an A). So he’d still have had an A either way.
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That’s GREAT news!! Really glad to hear he got the “A”…
Speaking of grading on a curve, (in my youth) I was taking an Accounting Course and the instructor said he would grade on a curve for the mid-term. He based it on the highest test score, well I got 100% and blew the curve for everyone else.
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Ugh. I remember those ‘grading curve’ classes. In almost every case, the most infamous “50% is an A” classes were unfailingly terrible teachers. Brilliant in their field, mostly, but utterly incapable of explaining things in any way but the way THEY understand something. And they act shocked when every 19 year old doesn’t have an intuitive grasp of whatever subject it is.
In my case, that was Electrical Engineering and Computational Theory, which is a bunch of abstract math and Turing Machines and lemmas and such.
Hated those classes. It’s like the profs wanted to make sure you feel as stupid as possible.
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96 years young…she looks great!
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She looks a lot like her own mother, who lived a few years longer.
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Absolutely beautiful!
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Thank you 
My personal favorite was a lit class in college. I got a B and asked the prof why–at the time the school had a policy that students on the dean’s list were exempt from attendance requirements, so I couldn’t be graded down. He simply answered: “I didn’t grade you down, I graded everyone else up.” 
It was the funniest thing he said all semester . . . I didn’t complain.
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96! How wonderful for you to still have your mom around 
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The view from our pad. Stunning moon the last coupla nights 
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@linguafood - I was reading this article today and thinking you may have come across these posters in Berlin:
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I really admire anyone with such photographing ability. I know that I could follow along behind you taking the exact same shots from the same positions, and make a muddle of it.
Beautiful!
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My degree was 126 hours of maths, chem, physics, engineering, and tech electives. Plus 12 hours of humanities and social sciences to ensure we engineers would be “well rounded” (eyeroll).
That first group, other than the lower maths (regular calc) and the first chem, were all steeply curved (the steepest was a physics class with around 40 as the A).
Quite a few of them were lousy teachers. But some of it was also searching for prodigies. The kid that got an 80-something on the midterm in that physics class was convinced to switch from ChE to physics, graduated in 7 semesters, and jumped straight into their PhD program. There may have been others in other classes; I only knew about him because he was helping a bunch of us in the class.
But it sure was demoralizing to keep getting “failing” grades on tests. The only good thing was that they would post averages with everything that was graded, so you always knew where you were. My son’s engineering and physics depts don’t do that until nearly (or at) semester end so he and classmates (and his oldest sister who graduated from the same engineering dept) are generally flying blind. Other than oral assurances if they go in for office hours and ask.
