In a related and "good" story regarding education, while I was working at Bloomsburg University in central PA, I failed a student in one of my classes. The student came to my office and cried and begged me to change the grade because they were supposed to graduate. I handed them a box of tissues and told them they should have thought of that before and worked hard to pass my class. They left (the tears were faked BTW, based on how quickly they stopped crying) . . . but I got a call from their department chair (they weren't math majors) who wanted to come speak with me. I said fine and when the department chair showed up I took out my grade book and pointed out that the student had failed to come to class for half of the quizzes and had received nothing more than a 40% on all of the exams, including the final.
The department chair sat back and said, "Oh," then shook my hand and left. I never heard a word about that student again. (Although based on later experience I probably should have checked to see that the grade had not been changed behind my back. This type of thing hadn't happened to or around me yet, so I wasn't aware it could even be done at that point. I was young and inexperienced.)
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In a related and "good" story regarding education, while I was working at Bloomsburg University in central PA, I failed a student in one of my classes. The student came to my office and cried and begged me to change the grade because they were supposed to graduate. I handed them a box of tissues and told them they should have thought of that before and worked hard to pass my class. They left (the tears were faked BTW, based on how quickly they stopped crying) . . . but I got a call from their department chair (they weren't math majors) who wanted to come speak with me. I said fine and when the department chair showed up I took out my grade book and pointed out that the student had failed to come to class for half of the quizzes and had received nothing more than a 40% on all of the exams, including the final.
The department chair sat back and said, "Oh," then shook my hand and left. I never heard a word about that student again. (Although based on later experience I probably should have checked to see that the grade had not been changed behind my back. This type of thing hadn't happened to or around me yet, so I wasn't aware it could even be done at that point. I was young and inexperienced.)