I am professor - hear me roar!

Some of my students are not going to be happy with me.

Yesterday, I told almost half of one of my classes that I was not grading their papers - they could re-write them.

Somehow the paper revision - which was a brand new grade - became a "all I have to do is add a paragraph with the missing information, but don't have to change my analysis and those extra 200 words will take my 78 into an A. Oh, and adding new information won't change my analysis so I don't have to change that!

Yea, right.

I told them that I will not accept anything less than their very best.

They may mark me down on my teacher evals, but they will learn!