So this class is really getting on my nerves. Right now, I have a 91. Barely. No one in the class has above a 92. No one in the class has gotten an A on the last three quizzes.

I think the problem is that my teacher has ridiculous grading policies, and instead of hearing out valid complaints (not just from me - in fact, almost all students in the class disagree with her grading), she just shuts people down.

I feel like venting so here is a laundry list of things I highly dislike about the class:

- You cannot raise your hand at any time, unless she specifies otherwise. If you do so, you are "interrupting the class" and your HW grade will suffer. This results in real questions and confusion not being addressed.

- One recent problem involved number of railcars on trains and fuel consumption. The relationship between the two was almost perfectly linear (r value was about 0.987) and the residuals were virtually random. The data's range was between 20 and 50 railcars. The question asks, could you extrapolate this data to 65 railcars. I (and a sizable portion of the class) wrote yes, and gave numerical analysis and reasoning to support our claim. She marked it wrong (fully) because apparently "65 is outside the domain of extrapolation." When I said we were never given a metric to determine this "domain," and argued like a logical person, her response was "I grade by the AP rubric."

- Another recent problem was to choose the most biased experiment (one done to determine political leanings of a city+suburbs). Two of the choices were a random telephone survey, and a cluster sample of one neighborhood. About half the class picked each side. My teacher claimed the telephone survey was more biased, because of possible nonresponse and undercoverage (of people that don't have phones; apparently this is common and also apparently people who don't have phones lean one way politically???). When I raised the obvious point that sampling a single neighborhood likely has way more of both type of biases (and may be a strong church community or one with lots of unions, which greatly influences political leaning), her only response was "it's wrong."

There are many more complaints but I'll spare the details. My recent quiz grades have been C, D, and B-. I have no idea how to raise them if this continues to happen.