Classroom Conversation of the Day

Posted by Rick in Work (Thursday November 15, 2007 at 2:12 pm)

“Hey, you decided to show up. You know we meet more than once every two weeks.”
“Why do you have to say that? I show up.”
“You have 14 absences in a class that’s only met 24 times.”
“But I have excuses for 3 of them!”

2 Responses to “Classroom Conversation of the Day”

  1. jennifer (from ulm) Says:
    November 17th, 2007 at 7:15 am

    Ah, freshmen. I have the same problem with mine. They have this mentality that they can get away with anything—an idea obviously nurtured in many high schools judging from their writing skills and work ethic.

    What I especially love is our new campus “texting” system supposedly for emergency notification. We have been told that not to allow students access to their cell phones for the purpose of receiving “campus alerts” in class makes us liable if a psycho comes in and kills them all. Of course, the fact that the chances of that ever happening are almost nil does not matter, nor does the fact that texting in classes is already a huge problem. However, our administration now feels they have sufficiently “CYA’d” themselves and we the professors (or GTAs) have to figure out how to deal with 20 kids (per class) with texting addictions who have just received the school’s permission to access their messages during class. GRRR.

    Sorry for the rant, by the way.

  2. jennifer (from ulm) Says:
    November 17th, 2007 at 7:16 am

    By the way, I meant from ULM as past tense… >.

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