Dive Brief:

• A community college teacher in Houston taught the wrong chemistry course for an entire semester before she admitted her mistake to her students.
• The teacher, Thao Shirley Nguyen, told her students just before their final exam that she had been teaching general chemistry, not the introductory chemistry class they thought they were taking.
• One student, who was upset because her grade in the class upset her straight-A grade point average, has complained to Lone Star College-University Park officials.

Dive Insight:

Hell hath no fury like a straight-A student scorned. The student, Lauren Firmin, says she was struggling with the advanced material of the class, though she studied as hard as she could. Nguyen added extra credit to the students' grades, which bumped up the F Firmin was to receive to a B. Firmin says she and other students with formerly perfect grade point averages are stressed out, and her two years of hard work are destroyed. College officials have ruled against awarding Firmin an A, but are looking again into what happened with the class.