teachers admitting mistakes

perfectionist27
Fri, 18 Oct 2013 19:07:14 +0000

In class the other day, my teacher got very upset with the class because not a single person did the homework that was “assigned.” I put assigned in quotations, because no one was aware there was any homework (besides finishing an essay). Our teacher claimed he put it on the online calendar, which 1) is unreliable because we have had tests/other assignments that have never been posted on the calendar and 2) is confusing because it is never constant and revisions are added to it constantly. As a class, we feel that homework should be verbalized in class and not in an unreliable source. An email would have at least been a lot clearer.
Needless to say, our teacher gave everyone a zero, dropping all of our grades by 7 points…so one full letter grade. He said he would not accept any late work for it, and in my opinion acting very unprofessionally in his handling of the matter. He made a point to ignore my classmates’ questions and then gave us individual grade printouts to make us feel terrible about how low our grades had dropped. Is there any reasonable manner to handle this? My friend approached him a few days after the incident and he remained firm in his decision to refuse any submissions of the assignment