So for those who don't remember me from wotmania or who never knew I teach chemistry at a community college in North Carolina. As part of that I teach a lab that runs from 9:30 to 12:30. In this lab we have lab tests. We had our first one for this semester today. I am not going to write a test that takes three hours because I don't want to grade it (I teach six or so classes each semester so I don't have time). After everyone is done with the test today I leave. When I get back to my office I have an angry message from a student who got to my class at 10:48 (which really I doubt as I left at 10:45 so would have seen him coming) and I wasn't there or in my office but since he came "during the alotted time" I should allow him to take the test. WTF??? You don't show up for class between 9:30 and 12:30 you show up at 9:30. If you have to be late you don't DEMAND I let you take the test you explain why you were late and you ASK! As it says on my syllabus if you have a valid reason for being late you MAY get to take the test.
America is becoming waaay to much like europe we have forgotten that economic rights don't exist and that you WORK for what you get, and deserve ONLY what you earn.
America is becoming waaay to much like europe we have forgotten that economic rights don't exist and that you WORK for what you get, and deserve ONLY what you earn.
My professors don't accept late work (or, at the very least, they'll knock off points if its late), it says so on the syllabus. I wouldn't expect them to show me preferential treatment if I turned up late- and if I do have to turn up late, I'll try to let the professor know.
I'm not strange. I'm normal. Everyone else is strange.
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venting about American students
- 09/09/2009 06:10:41 PM
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I agree with you.
- 09/09/2009 06:22:41 PM
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Your post conclusion is stupid.
- 09/09/2009 06:30:43 PM
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I have a reputation to uphold.
That last sentence doesn't even remotely make sense or relate to the above *NM*
- 09/09/2009 07:41:17 PM
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As a Swede, I can attest that that'd be exactly how that student would be treated here *NM*
- 09/09/2009 08:02:54 PM
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I agree about the entitlement issues in young America...I'm lost how that relates to Europe... *NM*
- 09/09/2009 08:03:00 PM
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Yep, I'm afraid that here, too, that student would be completely out of luck.
- 09/09/2009 08:20:42 PM
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Tough luck for that kid. He learned a lesson. But I don't get your Europe comment either. *NM*
- 09/09/2009 11:18:43 PM
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Europe comment explained - socialism
- 14/09/2009 03:51:05 PM
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I'm with Jens there - you cannot be serious about the bus driver thing.
- 14/09/2009 04:14:36 PM
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