Student Expects Perfection

[hotelnpa]

Just checking; you're not one of those instructors that takes 2-3% of the total grade off for each typo or misspelling, are you? Because if that's the case it sounds like they're just calling you out for expecting perfection and failing to deliver.

I assume that's not the case given your reaction, then I agree, they're expecting way too much.

My 4th grade teacher counted off for misspellings, sloppy writing, incorrect use of a punctuation mark, and other things too. The bigger the infraction, more points would come off.

She would grade the paper as usual with the "normal" grade and then below would write "- <whatever points> errors."
Example: 91
-4 points
87 B