Comment on Late
DrabPoultry@midwest.social 2 months ago
This may have worked. I once excused a student for being late because the geese were being aggressive.
who cares about collage attendance?
in my uni no one cared, of you’re late, it’s just a bit rude, of you don’t show up, no one cares.
what matters are the graded assignments and exams. if a student aces those but never stepped in a lecture hall, does that matter?
One of my biggest pet peeves in college was professors who took attendance. Bitch, I’m paying you to be here, if I don’t want to come to class, that’s on me. It was usually because they knew that most people could skip every class and still pass.
I even once had a class in a lecture hall with at least 100 students, where the teacher took attendance using some stupid “clicker” thing that we had to buy at the school bookstore. Ridiculous. Pisses me off just thinking about it.
While it’s good that you are disciplined enough that you can succeed without it, many students benefit greatly from a rigid structure more in line with the educational environment they experienced up to that point. After freshman year, attendance requirements are usually hreatly relaxed once people get into the swing of things (like not having to ask to to go to the bathroom anymore, god what even is the public school system). Personally I don’t care if you show up or not, you’ll learn something important either way and if someone uninterested isn’t there it means I have more time for the other students.
Also I can 100% promise that clicker thing was a contractual obligation from the publisher and not the instructor’s idea. Those things are fuckin’ awful to support on the instructor’s side, and goddamn Pearson managed to tie using their shitfucking software (including those goddamn clickers) to the state and federal grants unis rely on for funding. Fuck pearson.
Oh no, I skipped class all of the time lol I was a terrible student
This was for a lab I was teaching, so they had to be there in person. It was a 3 hour block, so I wouldn’t have even asked why they were late. I only even remember 5+ years later because they came rushing in with an explanation and I thought it was hilarious.
If you can pass my class without attending lecture, why wouldn’t you just ask to test out of the class???
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I scream, into the void.
Because following at home and teaching yourself the material during the course is different from knowing it all already.
Okay setting aside that I’ve never ever seen that actually succeed, why would someone shell out for a college lecture if they’re going to do that? (You also can’t replicate lab or seminar time on your own, so I’m just not sure what you’re basing this on.)
I accepted “I’m sorry, it was just too nice a day to spend it sitting in a basement with no windows” once because man, they had a point.
Immediate failure for not being academia levels of brain-broken. You’ll sit in your cube and like it!
Damn cobra chickens getting all hissy and angry just because I don’t have bread for them. Entitled bastards.
toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
i’m not a teacher, but if i was i’d excuse it just because they took the effort to compose such a crazy story. probably learned more than i’d have taught them that day a anyway
bampop@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If the class was on Kafka I’d give them top marks
toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
as an etymologyst, it really bugs me when i get n to my work
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m newly a teacher (of adults), and I accept literally any excuse anyone gives me. I suspect that I’ll change that as time goes on, but I don’t even really get excuses.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’ll generally accept any excuse unless it’s becoming a habit - in those rare cases I’ll happily work with them to try and figure out a solution. 80% of the time it’s family medical appointments or childcare scheduling issues (and my gosh I am so happy to accommodate people dealing with that) and the rare cases it’s not we can usually find a way to make up for what they’ve missed.
DrabPoultry@midwest.social 2 months ago
Oh, the funniest part of this to me was how certain I was it was true. I used to have to find alternate routes into the building all the time because of the geese. I think they nested in the bushes near all the doors. If it wasn’t, it was a very good lie and I appreciated the effort anyway.
toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
yeah, as a canadian i feel like i criminally neglected that part of your comment