A Followup Letter

Fol­low­ing up with My Lat­est Spe­cial Snowflake:

Dear Stu­dent,

Rest assured, the grade you saw this week on your semes­ter grade report was the grade you EARNED in my class. Let me repeat that. I did not GIVE you that grade, you EARNED it. As far as dis­cussing that grade with you, I do not dis­cuss grades via email, via phone, or in any other way than in per­son. I will not be back in my office until the begin­ning of next semester’s reg­is­tra­tion, there­fore I won’t be hav­ing any dis­cus­sion with you until then. Not that there is really any­thing to dis­cuss, mind you — the cal­cu­la­tions don’t lie.

Fur­ther­more, let me remind you: I am on vacation,a vaca­tion which I have earned, in no small part thanks to you. If you con­tinue to insist that I inter­rupt my vaca­tion to deal with your dis­sat­is­fac­tion, I have two sim­ple words for you. HELL. NO.

Sin­cerely,

Pro­fes­sor _​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​