Student wants a C.
I had a senior yesterday come to my room during lunch asking what they could do to improve their grade. I asked what grade they were hoping for. They said C.
Seeing as finals were done and they missed the final, I offered that maybe that would be a starting point.
Silence.
Ok, let's look at the grade book. 0 work done the whole semester. No tests, no quizzes, no notes, no participation.
More awkward silence.
How could this happen? Let's look at the attendance record. Over 110 days this year they weren't on time, most of those absences.
Still silence.
I offer, "What can I do to help you?"
A minute or two more of awkward silence and the student leaves.
The most incredible thing is that I checked this atudent's grades, and they have mostly A's across their whole transcript, a few B's, and two subjects they got 1 semester of credit for in junior fall with 3 semesters of Fs of that subject afterward (including mine).