That's a picture of my grades for the Spring 2017 semester.
The B+ for the biology class was what I earned without taking the final exam for the class. I was in a crisis stabilization unit for finals week, having spent the entire semester futilely fighting the illegal eviction from the second apartment in a row in which I was victimized by voyeurism and then called a crazy liar for objecting to the violation of my rights. It was also very stressful to spend the last weeks of that semester dealing with yet another situation of being harassed at school.
Before my Summer 2017 classes started, I had arranged with the school to take my biology final exam and my math final exam before July 31, 2017. The math final exam was the only work that I hadn't finished for the math class. The professor for that class told the Dean of her department that I had an A for all of the other work that I did for the class. The biology professor told me that all I needed to have a grade of A for the semester was to earn above a 50 on the final exam.
I had also already arranged to finish my work for the computer class by the end of August 2017. Not only did I have to spend the rest of my financial aid for the Spring 2017 semester on a laptop at the school bookstore because I couldn't be at the school's computer labs without being harassed, the computer program for that class is not a program that can be accessed from a regular computer away from the school. The program was only installed on a couple of computers at the school outside of the classroom for the class, and for me to be able to access the program from a laptop required that it be uploaded to the laptop with the permission that was given to the entire class to use the program for a certain amount of time. I was already a month behind in my work for that class before I conceded that I could neither access the school's resources that ought to be available to every student according to equal opportunity nor change the school's inertia about preventing harassment. Even though I bought the laptop, I couldn't catch up for the work for that class before the end of the Spring 2017 semester. I did have A grades for the homework that I was able to finish.
When I was suspended on July 6, 2017, in retaliation for my having reported being harassed at the school every semester that I'd been a student there, I was precluded from finishing the work for my Spring 2017 semester classes. Both my advocate at the Pine Street Inn and the social worker at the Pine Street Inn wrote letters to the Dean of Students, the Director of Student Services and the President of the school, asking that I be allowed to finish the work for those classes, and also that I be allowed to finish the work for my Summer 2017 classes, so that I wouldn't have to fail them. There was no response from the school to those requests.
I have also received final grades of F for the French class and my Personal Finance class for Summer 2017. These are not the grades that I have earned; they are the grades that were inflicted on me by my forced withdrawal from those classes as a term of the retaliatory suspension.
This transcript, and the school administration's grotesquely inaccurate characterization of me and false, retaliatory charges against me on my academic record, will destroy my ability to transfer to another school. I will not be able to obtain a 4-year degree or attend school anywhere. I will not be able to have a professional career. It is a death sentence for my ever being able to relinquish welfare dependency.
Copyright, with noted exceptions, L. Kochman, August 6, 2017 @ 10:02 a.m.
