My junior English III teacher has to be the most down-to-earth, savage teacher I've ever had. And I freaking love it.
So, we're reading Beowulf (Old English epic) and our job was to send him a intro paragraph. There were two grades for this: one for completion, and one for rubric grading via "public execution".
"Public execution" boils down to this: he removes your name from the paragraph, and displays it on the board. Then him and the students grade it based on the English writing rubric.
He gave us a week, and people still gave him crap. Sure, they got a completion grade, but the rubric grade was utter bullshrimp.
The first one was horrible. No thesis, bad spacing, and horrible grammar/spelling. Together, we came up with a rubric grade of 64 which, according to Mr. Williams, was "a gift".
He proceeded to tell us if he gave us a paragraph like that on the final, he wouldn't bother giving it a score, because he'd "spend more time grading it then you did writing it, and that's unacceptable". He essentially ripped the guy who wrote the paragraph a new one. Keep in mind, we're in 11th grade.
It made it better knowing that the second paragraph was MY SUBMISSION. He removed the name, so no one noticed. There was some awkward wording and misplaced commas, but my paragraph boiled down to an 86 (!). The highest paragraph scored an 88, and I'm not that strong in English, so that was a huge win.
