Students deserved consistent grading even after a suspended professor
Mario Gonzales
Issue date: 2/5/10 Section: Opinion
Anyone who knows American history knows how in the 1960s, college students were following non-violent protest tactics.
College students began to speak up around this time, and that's exactly what I think of when I see LPC students standing up for what they believe in. Students continue to fight for the right to an informative directorship, like in the case of instructor Christine Acacio, who got suspended last December. Her Psychology-Counseling students wanted a shot at a fair-graded semester.
With their instructor gone, students who were enrolled in PSCN 13, Multicultural Issues in America, wonder whether or not they are receiving grades that they rightfully earned.
"I don't think that it is fair at all," said student Daisy Suarez. "I have been doing well in the class, and now I just don't know."
According to students, the original grading system is being affected. Since they have a new instructor, it won't be the same. The entire course is out of 2000 points.
"We had just finished our midterm," said student Gil Saenz. "And now, our substitute wants us to read the second half of our textbook."
This definitely put students in a bind. If they were not able to finish the course with Acacio, the least they deserve is to keep to the same point system. They are being graded on whether or not they can adopt to the entirely new load put on them with such short notice and not on the work they put in all throughout the semester.
College students began to speak up around this time, and that's exactly what I think of when I see LPC students standing up for what they believe in. Students continue to fight for the right to an informative directorship, like in the case of instructor Christine Acacio, who got suspended last December. Her Psychology-Counseling students wanted a shot at a fair-graded semester.
With their instructor gone, students who were enrolled in PSCN 13, Multicultural Issues in America, wonder whether or not they are receiving grades that they rightfully earned.
"I don't think that it is fair at all," said student Daisy Suarez. "I have been doing well in the class, and now I just don't know."
According to students, the original grading system is being affected. Since they have a new instructor, it won't be the same. The entire course is out of 2000 points.
"We had just finished our midterm," said student Gil Saenz. "And now, our substitute wants us to read the second half of our textbook."
This definitely put students in a bind. If they were not able to finish the course with Acacio, the least they deserve is to keep to the same point system. They are being graded on whether or not they can adopt to the entirely new load put on them with such short notice and not on the work they put in all throughout the semester.
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