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Requesting to cancel Lin204 Assignment 3 & 4

Requesting to cancel Lin204 Assignment 3 & 4

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Started by Qinyi Xu 11 years, 5 months ago
During this period of time, the lecturer,Julie Goncharov, ridiculously threw us 2 assignments without any previous notice. These two assignments account 12% of the total mark. It is true that we should do these two assignments because it is part of the course assignments, the lecturer was supposed to post it on portal in early March. The lecturer used strike as an excuse, but in fact she could post the assignment before the strike. Also, she refused negotiation and rejected all the suggestions brought out by the students without any consideration. What she said was that she could not sleep well if she cancelled the assignments. If that is the case, what about our sleep? We students are going to have a heavy workload during the exam period, and meanwhile, working on these two assignments. Therefore, we must sacrifice our sleep time.You know consequence -- a computer science student died this year because of lack of sleep. As for a teacher, why she is being so selfish and not caring about her students?!


So, hey my friends, let's work together against these unreasonable assignments!

Updates

April 2, 2015

The feedback I have received from many of you captures a shared exhaustion that goes beyond a single course. I am currently working to organize our collective concerns into a formal document to present to the department because your accounts of the mounting workload need to be taken seriously.

April 2, 2015

Reaching this level of support confirms that the frustration regarding the sudden workload is shared by many of us. Seeing so many peers acknowledge the strain on our wellbeing provides a necessary sense of clarity as we move forward.

11 Comments

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Shiyu Wang
11 years ago Featured

She simply announced her decision on the assignment any refused doing a class vote on it. In one of my other courses which a lot more students were enrolled we were given the right to vote on any changes to the course. It is reasonable that she didn't want to give us free marks, but she even refused a redistribution of the 12%. She said if she had to gave up on the assignment she would doubt why she was there teaching the course, but indeed half of the course was not taught. This is simply UNFAIR to us. We didn't want the strike, why should we take this consequence brought by the strike? It is just unreasonable to have new assignment in April!

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Nan Guo
11 years ago Featured

I don't think that's fair for student still need to hand in their assignment during the exam period. Because the strike, we miss lots of Classes. I can't say anything we still have an exam, but I'm strongly disagree we still need to hand in assignments after study term. Now, student pay back for the strike but who pays back for the student???

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Tsz Kwong Lee
11 years ago Featured

it is not acceptable to give out assignment at the end of the term and expects us to finish it during exam period

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Tina Zhou
11 years ago

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Nan Nan Liu
11 years ago

cancel

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Ping Wei
11 years ago

just now

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FANG XING LI
11 years ago

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Ruohan Xu
11 years ago

Why didn't she post it earlier if we had to complete these assignments! She cannot just throw these to us!