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So did you let this go without protest? Why not escalate it if it was clearly so unreasonable? Sounds like there was more nuance to the story.
by WhitneyLand 2y ago
So did you let this go without protest? Why not escalate it if it was clearly so unreasonable?
Sounds like there was more nuance to the story.
- marc_io 2y agoHe was just a kid, man.
- shadowgovt 2y ago"Escalating" in American high school is a good way to increase your consequences to no benefit.
- sejje 2y agoI escalated a very similar thing with a college professor--in a social sciences class. She did not update my score, she argued a while in front of class, and when she lost the argument, said I could take it up with her supervisor. I declined (it was one question on a larger test)
- jerf 2y agoBecause my policy in childhood was to bend like the willow and not break like the oak. Not phrased in those words, and not quite as consciously chosen as it is now, but it was my policy, and for the most part I stand by it. Modern me, looking back with an engineer's rather cold cost/benefits analysis, sees way more cost than any possible benefit, so I might refine my past self's reasons but I'd still take the same actions. Fortunately, this was closer to a one-off problem in an otherwise acceptable class rather than a systematic issue.