College Discussion - View Single Post - Is it inappropriate to ask a professor to waive participation as part of a grade?

OKgirl · 04-17-2008, 05:31 PM

Is he keeping a score sheet with who has talked each class time?

Asking him to waive the participation grade would be pretty much be equal to asking him if he can waive a test grade because you didn't want to take it.

A better way of going about this would be to go to his office hours and simply ask if he can tell you your grade in the class and how you are doing on the participation grade. Be subtle about it and leave the "waive the grade" and "4.0 GPA" dicussion out of it. You probably don't even need to worry about it, but from now on, start talking in the discussions because that could save your grade! I really have a hard time believing that you have never once joined in on the discussions.

04-17-2008, 05:31 PM	#18
OKgirl Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Oklahoma Gender: Female Threads: 63 Posts: 958	Is he keeping a score sheet with who has talked each class time? Asking him to waive the participation grade would be pretty much be equal to asking him if he can waive a test grade because you didn't want to take it. A better way of going about this would be to go to his office hours and simply ask if he can tell you your grade in the class and how you are doing on the participation grade. Be subtle about it and leave the "waive the grade" and "4.0 GPA" dicussion out of it. You probably don't even need to worry about it, but from now on, start talking in the discussions because that could save your grade! I really have a hard time believing that you have never once joined in on the discussions.