Timeline for Is my approach to discouraging whiners from taking my class acceptable?
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| Sep 9, 2018 at 1:46 | comment | added | ATL_DEV | I couldn't stop laughing reading #5. You completely contradict yourself by stating how math is fun, but then threaten to use it as a form of punishment. | |
| Sep 7, 2018 at 20:42 | comment | added | fearofmusic | Do you know how laws work? Do you understand that life isn't fair, and part of the point of college is to learn how to internalize that? If it's a private institution, it's not illegal, and either way, it's not unethical either. It's not like anyone is going to be penalized randomly and without some action of their own. Just behave and don't do anything that raises any blatant red flags and you're cool, let the whiners take their lumps, which they went out of their way to earn. Amazing. | |
| Sep 7, 2018 at 14:12 | comment | added | Lord Farquaad | I think it's also worth noting that #5 opens up the professor to lots of liability as well. With an "arbitrary" difficulty scale, students could claim they were treated unfairly, even if they received normal exams. It would be easy for a student to say that @usr0192 "gave me a hard test because they don't like me." Or worse: that they got a "harder" test because of their race, religion, or gender. If a student brought an unprovable claim like that to the university, it would have to devolve into politics and judgement calls. It's possible OP could get punished for something they didn't do. | |
| Sep 5, 2018 at 1:56 | comment | added | Clay07g | Even if due process was followed, increasing the difficulty someone's coursework as a punishment is unethical. If two students have equal proficiency and effort, is it really fair that one of them has a lower grade because of unrelated behavior? | |
| Sep 4, 2018 at 23:14 | comment | added | anon | @DonQuiKong I wouldn't, at least without specifying the location, and ideally citing a specific law which makes it illegal (though in some cases, it may be illegal due to how several laws interact, and citing just one would be impossible) | |
| Sep 4, 2018 at 17:51 | comment | added | DonQuiKong | @usr0192 I'd go so far to say #5 is illegal. | |
| Sep 4, 2018 at 8:30 | comment | added | Captain Emacs | I give warnings about how hard the course is ahead of time and repeat them from time to time (BTW, it isn't really). They do not dare to whine (at least not to me ;-) | |
| Sep 4, 2018 at 5:00 | vote | accept | usr0192 | ||
| Sep 4, 2018 at 2:28 | comment | added | usr0192 | Ok, thanks for the response and specifically pointing out the problems with #5. I will remove it. | |
| Sep 4, 2018 at 2:23 | history | answered | Nate Eldredge | CC BY-SA 4.0 |