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I saw this on Blackfive,

California professor flunks Kuwaiti’s pro-U.S. essay

and one of his commenters pointed out that Michelle Malkin, and a few others, thinks he deserved it because of his bad spelling and grammar, and that he never really answered the question. So an F or D-.

Now, I’ve been in classes with (mostly Asian) foreign exchange students and (mostly the Japanese ones, who tend to have more money than the Chinese and Koreans) these students will spend a whole term staring straight ahead, or text-messaging each-other on their cell phones, and generally not making any effort through the whole year, then, right before the final, desperate to talk to the prof because they need help, more time, a dictionary, etc, for their final, because their English isn’t good. In fact, because they can’t speak English. And the prof (I was witness to several of these conversations, mind) will most likely explain to them that they had months to express concern with their inability to follow the subject matter, or seek help or tutoring with their English, but let them (depending on the subject, of course) take a dictionary with them for translating, but nothing else. I don’t think a single one of these kids ever actually got flunked. It’s really really really hard to flunk a class, at any American University, unless it’s something fact-based like Chemistry (teehee) or Maths.

Now, we’re supposed to believe that this foreign exchange student got flunked at a Community College because of poor grammar?