Why Bother?

I had class yesterday and I found out that the group project isn't going to be that bad. I was a little concerned until I found out who was in my group. We quickly made a task list, assigned each one our jobs, and set up our next meeting.

One interesting piece of information came from one of the other group members. All of us in our class got to comparing grades. No one in the class has higher than a low B average. Then we got to comparing our scores on individual assignments as well as the "notes" the professor (the minion of Satan) had made. Amazingly, we all had the same notes which read: "Not specific." That's it. What's not specific? Is it my examples? Is it my sentences? Is it my information? What? When one of my fellow group members, Sean, e-mailed the professor and asked him to elaborate and give him some pointers or examples of how specific he wants us to be to get an A, he wrote Sean back and told him that if he was truly capable of graduate level work, he wouldn't be asking this question. What? The last time I checked, there were several students in my class, including Sean, who are card carrying members of MENSA. I'm not one of them, but I'm not the dullest tool in the shed either. I hold my on and do quite well, even in difficult classes that are a lot of work. I've never been afraid of working hard. Then the e-mail went on to state that he starts grading at a B and goes down from there. Then why bother putting forth an A effort if all that's possible is a B? At least if I do B work, I'll have earned my B. To say that I'm looking forward to the end of this class is an understatement. Once again, I'm going to have to write a very negative evaluation. I hate to be that way, but sometimes it has to be done. When I taught in a regular classroom, I didn't run my class this way. If you did A work, you earned an A. If you did B work, you earned a B. I didn't grade easy either, but I was fair. In my mind, that's what a good teacher or professor does, but apparently not this guy. It just ticks me off that I've spent an entire semester struggling along with my fellow students, not getting any help from our professor, being made to feel stupid everytime we ask questions, and we paid over a thousand dollars for this class. I don't think I'm getting my money's worth.