I’ve always been a pretty dedicated student. I’m going into 10th grade this September as a dual-enrollment and honors student. I take both in-person and online classes, including a high school coding class online—which I’m actually pretty good at.
For one of the assignments, I uploaded my code to Google Docs and submitted it through the school website. The instructions literally said *Insert your program code here*, so that’s exactly what I did. It seemed clear, and honestly, anyone would’ve done the same.
Then the next day, I check my grades, and for the first time, I see an **F-**. I was completely confused. At first, I thought maybe I got some of the answers wrong. But after looking closer, I found out the F wasn’t because of incorrect work—it was because I didn’t submit it as a separate file. Nowhere in the instructions did it say to upload a file instead of using the doc. If that’s what they wanted, they should’ve just said something like *Insert code in a file and upload it separately.*
I didn’t even get a 0—I got a **1** out of 100. I really don’t think a simple formatting mistake deserves a full-on F, especially when the directions weren’t clear. If they didn’t want students putting their work directly in the doc, they shouldn’t have included *Insert code here* in the first place.
Now I’ve got to re-submit everything just to fix the format and try to save my GPA
(EDIT) She fucking failed me **again**. This is the **third** time I’ve submitted this simple assignment, and she keeps failing me—no curve, no leniency, nothing. This time, she said I needed to write **five** strings of code. But in the lesson instructions, it literally just said *a few*, so I wrote three. Nowhere did it say anything about needing exactly five sentences.
And the part that really gets me? When she gave me the **first F**, she could’ve just said, *”Hey, you’re missing two sentences.”* But instead, she waited until I submitted it **again**, failed me **again**, and *then* told me I needed five. If that’s what she wanted from the start, she should’ve just said so. It feels like she’s setting me up to fail over something that could’ve been fixed easily, because this problem is keeping me from passing the module.
She also took four days to grade my second submission—so let’s see how long it takes for the one I just turned in. At this point, I’m just hoping she actually gives clear feedback this time.
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