Criminal Justice students protest lack of Extra Credit offered by instructors

Criminal Justice majors at Spurius Tatius Francescican University, in Michigan are in an uproar. Students have been flooding the CJ department chair and the Dean of Social Services with complaints. Their issue is that professors at the University refuse to give extra credit to students who have not earned an A.

CJ Students in class

Criminal Justice Students in Class

Steven Klefish a junior at STFU and president of the campus CJ students club is spearheading this effort.

“I am an ‘A’ student. Have been all the way through high school and into college, until this semester. Now I am just barley getting a B- in my Criminal Law class, and also getting a C in Community Policing Strategies class. This is not fair. I deserve the chance to do extra credit to bring my grade up to an A.”

Most of the other students echo the statements made by Klefish.

CJ Department chair and retired police officer Robert Hammer thinks the students are being stupid.

“Out on the streets at 3am no one cares about your dam GPA. These kids messed up and got the grades they earned. In a patrol car you don’t get a second chance to fix a call you screwed up.”

Professor Hammer wanted to emphasize that when a cop gets hurt, when rights get violated, or when guilty go free, the universe will not grant extra credit to fix things. As such why should a professor give extra credit when someone failed to do class work the first time right?

Steven counters by saying. “That is such a copout answer. This is just college. A dumb three-page paper is not life or death decision-making like Hammer wants everyone to think it is. We are college kids; it is our right to party so they need to accommodate us.”

According to Professor Hammer one instructor offer an extra credit assignment but none of the students though the idea was fair. Professor Tolosa offered students 10 extra credit points if they wrote a 50-page paper on the history of police militarization. Apparently students complained 50 pages is too much work.

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