By the way, he had a lousy excuse for missing an important lab the day it was first scheduled, imo.
Remember that the last few POTUS/TOTUS have been C students or worse.
A 17 yr old sophomore? That age is normally a late junior, senior year. Apparently, not the sharpest knife in the drawer. Whiner, too!
>> and diminished chances of getting into his college of choice because of the grade.
Judge Smails: Well, the world needs ditch diggers, too.
Yes, but, according to the article, the teacher agreed to it before the date in question.
We had to see this coming.
Litigation aimed at teachers may well have a silver lining. If they get held personally responsible for punitive damages, they may stop encouraging this kind of entitlement behavior.
The teacher sounds like a bitch.
This was a Doonesbury sequence decades ago. Somebody sued over a B+ and was awarded something like $4 million in damages.
“Lousy excuse?”
Perhaps he was required at the adoption hearing so the judge could evaluate the entire family. Maybe he wanted to voluntarily to welcome his new sister to the family — in such case, he is very family oriented. Either way, it is a great reason to be excused from school for the day.
Considering how cowardly the average administrator or bureaucrat is, and considering that the parents went all the way to the school board, if there was any question or leeway here, the grade would have been changed. The fact that it wasn't by the powers-that-be is a relatively good indication that there is more to this story than was printed. But, of course, let's believe Yahoo news blindly!
“Bethards, according to the suit, had to miss class to attend the adoption hearing for his younger sister and so informed Carlock of his absence ahead of time. “
Horrible excuse for sure...
His attendance at the hearing may well have been ordered by the court...
Where’s the teachers union? All they have to do is send some goonion brothers over to adjust the family attitude—hey no more problem.
Almost the exact same thing happened to me in college. I had to attend a funeral for a family member. Prof said I was excused for a makeup the following week. Went to schedule the makeup and the prof said my grade average was so high that he would just average my grade separately when it came time to do final course grades. He didn’t do that and I found out a few weeks after finals that my course grade went from an A to a B-. The prof had left for Costa Rica and without anything in writing, I couldn’t get my grade changed or do some kind of makeup work to raise my grade. I should have made a formal complaint to the dean, but I figured I was screwed no matter what since our agreement was never in writing. I heard years later that the prof died a miserable death at a relatively early age, so maybe karma took care of things.
“... he had a lousy excuse for missing an important lab...”
I don’t understand why it was a lousy excuse? An adoption hearing may require that all potential siblings attend so they may answer questions. For our foreign adoption, our two children had scheduled meetings with our case worker/social worker. The information obtained was that the addition of a child wouldn’t cause issues with siblings. The teacher accepted the absence beforehand and then decided later she wouldn’t accept it. I see the fault lying completely on the teacher. IMHO.
Sounds like a legit excuse, and if they have an order from a court or judge to appear....this school district will lose...pre-absence agreement or not
If the school was smart, they would settle this out of court, with the proper amended grade
Also, would like to know why this teacher is no longer at this school. You can bet her work history and background will be checked out
There is something wrong with the chemistry of this story. I believe we have here an improper mix of fact, and fiction.
If this is accurate the whining wimp might just have a case.
FWIW, only Divine intervention would have gotten me a C+ in chemistry
People should wait to hear the teacher’s side of this.
All that yahoo published was the student’s side.
From a 106 average down to a C+ for one lab? Man, that’s a tough high school!
Honestly, though, if the kid alerted the teacher to the pending absence, the teacher agreed, they had a make-up date set, then why not let him do the make-up?
Weird story.