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Did he appeal his grade after that?
by celticninja 7y ago
Did he appeal his grade after that?
- justin66 7y agohttps://www.statesman.com/news/20170314/herman-35-years-later-a-for-austinite-who-got-constitution-amended https://www.statesman.com/news/20170314/herman-35-years-late...
- piptastic 7y agoAnd with the benefit of hindsight, Waite says, Watson clearly doesn't deserve that C she gave him. "Goodness, he certainly proved he knew how to work the Constitution and what it meant and how to be politically active," she says. "So, yes, I think he deserves an A after that effort — A-plus!" And that's exactly what happened. On March 1, Waite signed a form to officially change Watson's grade. Thirty-five years after Gregory Watson wrote his paper, he finally got his C changed to an A. https://www.npr.org/2017/05/05/526900818/the-bad-grade-that-changed-the-u-s-constitution https://www.npr.org/2017/05/05/526900818/the-bad-grade-that-...
- jldugger 7y agoNote well, would-be faculty: this is the degree to which undergrads will hound you if you grade homework accurately.
- ska 7y agoAt least in this case, it wasn't a parent.
- Rebelgecko 7y agoDid that end up retroactively changing his grade in the course as well?
- patmorgan23 7y agoYes, grade changes are done on the course level. The registrar doesn't keep track of the individual assignments.
- mc3 7y agoPapers aren't graded on their real world effects!