![]() It appears you forgot to include your location in the title or body of your post. I am a bot whose sole purpose is to improve the timeliness and accuracy of responses in this subreddit. Thank you for your responses! This is a very stressful situation and I'm thankful for any insights you have! What legal standing do I have against the teacher/university if they are discriminating me by age/sexuality? Any tips for what I should argue or bring up during my conversation with the supervisor? I have a meeting with the supervisor this week to discuss the textbook issue (I haven't mentioned the grading disparity yet), and the general gist of the conversation from what we've had so far is that I am stuck with whatever grade I get, and that they want me to drop the course and take it over the summer for an additional $4,000 price tag out of pocket. I believe this to be directly related either to my stark age difference from my classmates, or perhaps to a lesser degree my supposed sexuality. So I now have evidence the teacher is intentionally manipulating my grades to ensure I fail the course, and ultimately prevent me from graduating. And the teacher has accepted their late assignments. So I email my classmates and find out they have all scored higher than me (22-25 range). Essentially I'm the only person to have actually followed the assignment. So I look at the submissions of my classmates (it's an open forum style class) and find out that 20% of my classmates have submitted late assignments, 30% did not do the assignment and answer the questions, and almost all the others didn't follow directions of the assignment (under required word count, didn't use resources, no personal example, etc.). I go through my assignment, and very clearly identify the answer to each question, where I used sources, and where I included personal examples - in short, I followed every outlined direction. He comments on the assignment that I haven't answered the assigned questions, used resources, or included personal examples. Today I get an email saying I've failed the course, because the assignment I handed in on time, got a 68% (17/25 points). ![]() We go back and forth for a bit, my college advisor is involved, and it basically leaves off with: I'm making an appointment to speak with your supervisor because its entirely unethical to refuse to grade assignments over a textbook delay. ![]() Basically, if I get any less than a perfect grade on the remaining assignments, I will fail the course and fail to graduate from college. This translates to me starting the class with a D+ or 68%. I get an email back from the professor saying that he will not grade any of the assignments, and as such has given me a 0/200 points (some assignments were a day late, some three, one was 8 days at the most). I killed myself expediting all of those assignments, it was an immense workload. I say I've submitted 3 papers that day, submit 3 more papers tomorrow, and will submit 2 papers the following day. Once I get the book, I email the professor to explain the situation, apologize profusely, and give him a schedule for when I'll submit the assignments. ![]() Turns out the professor really likes piling on the workload, and assigned ⅓ of the course assignments within those 10 days (200 points out of 625 total). ![]() Amazon keeps delaying the "expected delivery date" and by the time I finally get it, its 10 days past the assignment. Due to weather conditions in the North, my Amazon textbook shipment is delayed. The professor assigned questions from the book and wants us to relate to course material from the book. I'm meeting with a supervisor this week, and need advice on what may be illegal/legally questionable about this. TLDR: I have proof my professor is manipulating my grades to ensure I fail the course which I think it's due to ageism or homophobia. I look obviously very young in my photo, as well as flamboyant. First week of the course, the professor asks everyone to post introductions and photos of themselves, and I find out I'm around 15-20 years younger than everyone in the class as its an adult course. I work full time, am a full time student, and run a real estate remodeling/investment company full time as well, so I decided to take online classes this semester and got a special exemption to join Part-Time Adult courses because those were the only ones available for my required class. I'm 21 years old, Gay, Senior in college on my last semester. ![]()
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