I'm trying to get a tuition refund. Should I drop my class?

nascarlover88
Sun, 17 Mar 2019 01:51:36 +0000

I have two classes (one a 4-credit and another a 3-credit) and one upcoming 1-credit class. The 4-credit class I’m referring to is the English 1A class. It is the lowest level of any English class I could take and one of the only ones that I could take since I decided to go back to college this March. I only took these classes because my mom wanted me to get a tuition fee for financial aid and income to make my mom pay less for me. I am 19 and I am having a hard time concentrating on my work due to a management of my Instagram meme page and my interest in cars, creating articles on Drivetribe.

When I took English, it was because my mom said I needed to take “core” classes in order to have a diploma, that I will need to transfer to a university before my third year. I am in my first year right now and in English I am unexpectedly learning black history from the professor. I have no interest in the class whatsoever and like I said, I only took the class to impress my mom. I needed to buy a book, according to the professor when I first came into the class. But I couldn’t afford the book so she let me print copies of some of the pages on a book that is required, filled with some sub-books (mostly about black history, women’s rights, etc.). She is a very conservative professor, doesn’t allow use of cell phones at all, and goes completely against what our “high school teachers” said in the past, saying they’re liars and they’re wrong and not to be taken seriously.

I got a 0 on one of my quizzes because I didn’t have the book (still don’t) or copies at the time and she left me alone in my own mental mind. Currently, I am in a group with a girl and we didn’t get what the professor was saying because the questions were in the book on the last page of one of the chapters, but she didn’t tell us before. She wants us to overconsume our homework to turn it all in to her so we can get a good grade. The only problem is my mom will disown me if I get a bad grade.

For a 4-5 page book assignment, she wants us to avoid using quotes. She absolutely wants us to avoid using first/second person pronouns.

I would like to add, also it’s not quite the dropping deadline yet so I can’t “withdraw” yet. The professor said it is “impossible” to pass an English class without a book, saying it’s “not math class” and that she expects me and other students to have the book at all times. The problem is she usually tells ahead of time before even telling us to print copies. She’s usually pretty stingy about being late or even absent from class. I do not want to drop a class after the deadline because I do not want my mom to see a “W” on my transcript.