Response to making the grade pg. 194

When it comes to students asking for better grades at the last minute, I agree with this professor on this issue. Once the final grades are posted, they should be the FINAL grades. If professors gave in to all the students who asked for a change of their grade, then tons of students would be getting grades they don't deserve. If they wanted a good grade they should have worked hard for it just like the students who actually got good grades. If you don't work and study, you can't expect to get a good final grade. And that isn't fair to students who did work really hard, and turned in all the assignments on time, that the students that didn't work hard get a good grade. Also, if the students bad grade is going to make them lose a scholarship or cause them to flunk out, how is that the professor's fault. I can see how certain professors are really hard graders, but if you truly made and effort and turned in assignments etc... your grade will be decent. If you don't do any work and expect to get a good enough grade to keep your scholarship or not flunk, it's foolish. The professor has nothing to do with how hard you work or how many assignments you turn in. College is definitely the chance to learn about life. If you don't work hard in college and try to make the professor change your grade for your benefit, then you won't work hard in the real world and you'll try to just slide by. Students need to learn to accept their grade that they worked for and if they expect to get a good enough grade to pass then they need to put the effort in. trying and persuade the teacher at the last minute isn't the way to do it.