A student is unhappy with his C-grade, and takes his case to federal court:
Marquis, a 51-year-old paralegal seeking bachelor’s degrees in legal studies and sociology, filed a 15-count lawsuit in US District Court in Springfield in January after a teaching assistant graded a political philosophy class on a curve and turned Marquis’s A-minus into a C. Marquis contends that the university violated his civil rights and contractual rights and intentionally inflicted “emotional distress.”Last week, after a brief hearing with Marquis and a university lawyer, District Court Judge Michael A. Ponsor dismissed the suit. But Marquis said this week he is considering appealing to the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
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When I was in med school, there was a man in my class that was 47.
He also argued every grade, taking his case to the dean’s office on more than one occasion.
Who is going to hire a 51 year old resident, or a 51 year old man who just graduated law school?
There ought to be an age limit – why should these complainers get take someone else’s slot?
This guy needs a reality check… he is lodging a lawsuit against curves, because it threatens his ability to get into a good law school? Law school grading is ENTIRELY based on a curve. If this is an attempt to make himself more attractive to law schools as a clever, litigious geezer, he is sorely mistaken. No law school will want someone like this in their student body.
This clown needs to understand that almost all law school exams are essay-based and graded subjectively on a case-by-case basis. You piss a professor off, act like a know-it-all-PITA during class, and you’d be a fool to think it won’t somehow bleed into your grade. The TA was far more dispassionate with a larger class size, I’m sure.
How this maladjusted, mollycoddled individual thinks that this BS won’t adversely impact his law school entrance chances more than that “C” is beyond me. He should just forget the LSAT and live out his destiny being that grumpy old man on the porch yelling at the kids to get off his grass.
Actually, he seems to be exhibiting traits that will serve him well in a law career.
Maybe he can sue his breasts for hurting as well.
Curves have been around forever and most students like them. During my time as a TA, there was a big fuss about on case when a professor decided not to grade a particularly bad class on a curve and failed half the students. When pressed for explanation, he just shrugged and said – “well, the class was bad”. From what I heard the professor was right. This was Computer Science and the course was one of the earlier ones that serve to weed out people who’d be better off doing something else.
I’d imagine that if a failure to grade on a curve worked against this guy, he’d sue for curves. This is just too funny.
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