A fail becomes a pass

**ms pemberley** · August 3rd, 2007, 03:22 PM

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: NotSoSilentBob</div><div class="ubbcode-body">From Michigan, Mr. Lampros recalled one comment that Mrs. Fernandez made during their meeting about why it was important for Indira to graduate. She couldn't afford to pay for her to attend another senior prom in another senior year. </div></div>

Not exactly the reason my mother would have begged and pleaded with my teachers in high school. If my grades were that low, my mother would have went bullistic on ME. Fortunately, I had teachers who took pity on us lazy souls and offered "extra credit" for things like cleaning their classrooms, grading papers, filing and my favorite h.s. biology extra credit assignement "put your hand in the algae filled tank and catch a tadpole." It was five points per tadpole added to your final grade upto 25 points or an A- whichever came first (for certain students only ... love that favoritism).

But not even a 20- or 30-point curve was enough for my inorganic chemistry class with Walter Crouse to get half of us up to decent grades. I would love to see this little pampered princess and her mommy deal with him.

**CoeburnCane** · August 3rd, 2007, 03:28 PM

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: ms pemberley</div><div class="ubbcode-body">But not even a 20- or 30-point curve was enough for my inorganic chemistry class with Walter Crouse to get half of us up to decent grades. I would love to see this little pampered princess and her mommy deal with him. </div></div>

HA...been a while since I heard Dr. Crouse's name. Wonder how that old curmudgeon's doing these days?

**ms pemberley** · August 3rd, 2007, 03:39 PM

I haven't seen him in a few years. But I hope he's being as hard on everybody as he was when I was still in the science department. He gave us a mid-term take-home exam with two weeks to finish it ... That sealed my decision to vacate the science building.

**imported_MoonlightGraham** · August 3rd, 2007, 04:22 PM

hahaha

i like ol crouse...
he is the reason I stuck w/science. talk about a man who loved baseball and his home town orioles.

anyone ever have margie tucker?

**imported_elp6n** · August 3rd, 2007, 04:30 PM

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">anyone ever have margie tucker? </div></div>

I believe she taught one of my labs.

**TheBeast** · August 3rd, 2007, 05:04 PM

I took the bare minimum of science while I was up there, that department was just to tough.

**ms pemberley** · August 3rd, 2007, 05:51 PM

I had tucker for chem 101. I liked her as a professor. I had some of my better grades under her.

**yankeebaseball** · August 3rd, 2007, 06:06 PM

I missed the same question on every test Crouse gave me, "who is the greatest QB of all time" I always put John Elway and he always marked it wrong and said no, its Johnny Unitas.

**ms pemberley** · August 3rd, 2007, 06:16 PM

I needed the points, so I remembered how to answer the QB question. It really bugged me to hear a lot of the girls in the class ask "Who is the John, Johnny, whatever, guy?" You knew they were in trouble right off the bat.