TA grade unfairly, what to do?

Gundamman12
Wed, 27 Sep 2017 13:27:08 +0000

I have a TA who grades my paper for linear algebra for engineer. He would always deduct points for dumbest of thing like having commas inside matrixes or using another way to do inverse matrixes even though thats how I was taught in highscool and by the professor. I tried to explain to him as to why I did the things I did and how I want my points back because of this. He never did give me a reasonable explantion as to why my answer was invalid or bother trying to explain it at all. He keeps saying that I should of question the professor as to why he didnt use commas in his matrixes, but I didnt think it was a big deal and thats why I was trying to explain myself. He even claim I was shouting at him even though I’m probably one of most quiet person in his lab. He even threaten me to report me even though I just want explantion why I get points off. Eventually I left because it never did get anywhere. Then I spoke to my professor about my situation, but he never let me fully explain it. He then told me that he’ll deal with the situation after the exams are over. What I’m afraid of is that the professor might not do anything because he is very lax during lectures. I have the email for the dean ready just in case he doesnt do anything about it. But Im not sure whether to go to the dean or go to the dean of students about this? What I hate about this is TA is that he doesnt do anything during lab and he just sits there. You can easily tell that he does not care about the lab, and thats why he try to get rid me of after lab (even though he told me to talk to him after class). And now I dont really know what to do for this situation.