I hate professors like that. I had a psych professor who was like that. It was my only B throughout both my undergrad and graduate classes. He was such a jerk. He prided himself in saying that in his class a "B" was an "A." No. It is not. A "B" is a "B." Teachers and professors like that have no business education. To them, it is about their own egos, not other people's learning.I remember her telling me that she walked into one of her math classes and the professor told them the first day that many people have to take his class twice
I had another professor who tried to give me a "B," but he and I had clashed several times during the semester--as had two of my friends--because he was sexist and had spoken to the dean. Apparently, he was a problem professor with tenure. Every time one of the women in the class answered a question, he said we were wrong and then, usually, went on to say the exact answer using different words. My friend--and friendly academic rival--wears hearing aids. He would jingle his keys in his pocket while standing next to her. (Nope, he did not jingle them in his other classes. He once went and got his keys off his desk so that he could jingle them!) She and I both went to the dean about our final paper grade and ended up having them regraded by three different professors because he had literally crossed off one grade and written another so that we would have a "B" as our final grade. Mine was a feminist deconstruction analysis of "The Goblin Market." Hers was a queer post-colonialistic analysis of "The Goblin Market." (We had six pieces of literature from which to choose, which is why we both did "The Goblin Market.") Both have been published in literary journals. We also graduated Summa Cum Laude with the same GPA.