To: (professor/teacher/instructor)________________________

From:_____________________

I think my grade in your class,_________________, should be changed from_____to_____for the following reason(s):

____The persons who copied my paper got a higher grade than I did.
____The person whose paper I copied got a higher grade than I did.
____This course will lower my ____ GPA _____class rank and I won't get into:

____ College ____ The Army ____ Community College ____ Technical School
____ National Honor Society

____I have to get an A in this class to balance the D in ___________.
____I'll lose my scholarship for college.
____I didn't come to class and the person whose notes I used did not cover the material asked for on the test.
____My printer ran out of ink and I am not prepared enough to have a backup supply.
____The power went off last night so I couldn't print out my (report, homework, cheat sheet).
____I studied the basic principles but the exam wanted every little fact.
____I didn't do my homework because I left my (notebook, book) at (school, home, car, locker, another class).
____I was hoping for a snow day but we didn't even get a delay.
____I studied the facts and definitions but the exam asked about general principles.
____I understood the material; I just couldn't do the problems.
____I can work the problems, but your exam expected understanding.
____I am unable to balance (work, a club, athletics, my personal life) with academics.
____I was at a rally last night demanding better pay and conditions for our hardworking teachers.
____I work really late at night since my employer likes to break child labor laws and I'm too dumb to report him.
____I was absent so I shouldn't have to learn the material.
____It's against my religion to do homework on a day ending in a "y"!
____I was being followed on the way to school by spies so I had to destroy my homework to avoid it falling into enemy hands
____My computer crashed right before I was about to save my work.
____I'm motivationally challenged.
____I was in the emergency room.
____My older sister/brother couldn't find her/his same homework from last year.
____I didn't know we had an assignment due, a lab due, a quiz, a test. (circle one)
____I fell asleep on it and when I woke up my drool smudged all the ink.
____I loaned my homework to someone so they could copy it but they never gave it back.
____I spent the entire night working on it, but I just wasn't proud of it, so I'm going to work on it again tonight.
____You are prejudiced against:

____ Males ____ Females ____ All People

____If I fail a class my parents will

____ disinherit me _____ cut my allowance _____ ground me _____ take away my car
____ make me quit my job _____ take away my computer _____move without telling me
____ go on vacation and leave me home _____make me go on vacation with them.

____I was unable to do well in this class because of the following:

____mono ____broken finger _____ pregnancy _____fatherhood ____I have allergic reaction to brain work
____I am intellectually challenged ____ I don't like science ____ I think it's alright to be bad at math.

____You told us to be creative but you didn't tell us exactly how you wanted that done.
____I was creative and you said I was just shooting the bull.
____The lectures were:

____too detailed to pick out important points.
____not explained in sufficient detail.
____too boring.
____too exciting.
____all jokes and no material.
____too serious--not enough entertainment to keep me awake.

____All my other teachers have agreed to raise my grades.
____My lab partner (lost, made up, forgot) our (data, report, calculations, graphs).
____My lab partner didn't come to school the day we did the experiment.
____My lab partner doesn't know what he/she is doing.
____I don't have a reason; I just want a higher grade.
____This class was:

____too early, I was not awake.
____too late, I was tired.
____just before lunch, I was hungry.
____right after lunch, I was sleepy.

____My (dog, cat, gerbil) (ate, wet on, threw up on) my (book, notes, study guide) for this class.

Please note: This form includes many of the reasons that Mr. Flint has heard that will not bring your grade up. Your grade is a reflection on how much material you have mastered. If you truly think that the above reasons are substantial enough to warrant an increase in your grade then you are only cheating yourself - think about it... honestly! Please do not actually fill this out.