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After the semester is over...
May. 13th, 2009 06:29 pm... the students are still succeeding in driving me nuts.
First, I had a frantic email from a student worried about a low test grade. This student wanted to come in to see me and, I assume, argue for some of her answers. No! I basically emailed this student back and said what was wrong on the test and that any points argued would not ultimately make a dent on the final grade.
Then, I went to my email to check to see if my chronically absent student, who agreed to do the make-up paper for the last exam she missed, had actually emailed that paper to me. Nope. Then, I went to enter a zero on Blackboard and lo, she is no longer a student. *EXPLETIVE!* I've spent hours and hours rearranging my schedule to bend over backwards for her when she misses tests. I've emailed and made special assignments for her. She was a student of mine up until the last minute, and then, nothing. I might email my department head to see if she needed a signature of mine to drop the class in such a last minute manner. Grr. I'm so mad. I was actually looking forward to failing her because she has done NO actual work for the class.
And now I have the onslaught of students emailing me and asking what their grade is going to be. I should send out an announcement to tell them not to and that they'll all get the grade they deserve. I just am wishing I could take off for the sense of entitlement that I'm feeling from a lot of my students.
First, I had a frantic email from a student worried about a low test grade. This student wanted to come in to see me and, I assume, argue for some of her answers. No! I basically emailed this student back and said what was wrong on the test and that any points argued would not ultimately make a dent on the final grade.
Then, I went to my email to check to see if my chronically absent student, who agreed to do the make-up paper for the last exam she missed, had actually emailed that paper to me. Nope. Then, I went to enter a zero on Blackboard and lo, she is no longer a student. *EXPLETIVE!* I've spent hours and hours rearranging my schedule to bend over backwards for her when she misses tests. I've emailed and made special assignments for her. She was a student of mine up until the last minute, and then, nothing. I might email my department head to see if she needed a signature of mine to drop the class in such a last minute manner. Grr. I'm so mad. I was actually looking forward to failing her because she has done NO actual work for the class.
And now I have the onslaught of students emailing me and asking what their grade is going to be. I should send out an announcement to tell them not to and that they'll all get the grade they deserve. I just am wishing I could take off for the sense of entitlement that I'm feeling from a lot of my students.
