Taft's Boyd 'Creepy, Neanderthal' Hiding in Shrubbery

[Dickie Billericay]

Remember a waaay back in 2009 when Nosebutt was complaining because his exams got "lost"?

Gevalt!

So I took my final exams for the first trimester at the local university and...

They lost the exam answer sheets. The local university, not Taft.

I'm not kidding. HOURS of sweat, blood, toil and tears (and an awful sinkng feeling) and they can't figure out what happened to my answers.

If Taft can't find my answer sheets, what ahould happen? SHould they assume I passed? Or make me retake? Or what? I put a solid YEAR into these classes.

I think that I should get the grades I got for the coursework. But will they DO that?

http://www.degreediscussion.com/forums/v...974#p53619

Then, miraculously, Taft decided they would just "waive the final exams" and grade him on his previous work in the course.

Vinny,

Taft, it appears, agrees with you. The school sent me an e mail this morning saying that they'd consulted with their accreditation agency (DETC) and decided to waive the final exams for these two courses altogether. My coursework grades will become my final grades.

That's good.

But I mentioned that the exams were hard for me. Actually passing would have built a bit of confidence. Oh, well, tax exams are ALWAYS hard for me yet in the past I have never failed one.

I'm enrolling for the second trimester in the next day or so.

http://www.degreediscussion.com/forums/v...974#p53803

I only mention this because there seems to be some controversy concerning Taft's grading policies--or "grade changing scandal" as the OC Weekly described it.

State Bar Investigated Grade-Changing At Online Law School Tied To County Schools Official

In a series of 2016 emails, State Bar director of education standards George Leal pressed Santa Ana-based Taft Law School administrators to explain the school's practice of retroactively raising grades of students. Leal identified cases in which Taft raised the grades of students who failed to earn at least a 2.0 grade-point average during their first two years, but had their grades raised later.

In a January 14, 2016, email to Taft officials, Leal questioned the school's motives in adopting the policy. "Finally and very candidly," Leal wrote, "I cannot ignore the fact that apparently, a motivating factor in the use of these two policies is expressly tied to maintain a student's eligibility" for federal student loans.

You have to wonder how many other students had their exams "lost" and then received whatever grade they might have earned otherwise, or maybe just got a gentleman's "A" for effort. Does DETC/DEAC know about these little problems at Taft?