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[original me]

I learned that I apparently cannot treat the children like adults and will have to make a formal policy about bathroom breaks.  My policy has always been to let people use the loo w/o question, but I have one class where over the course of the semester I have several students leave and come back each lecture.  Too distracting!

[asst_prof]

Next year, I resolve to require students to take make-up tests immediately after they take their final exams in order to reduce the number of missed exams.  One of my colleagues does this, and he says it's really cut down on the number of students missing exams for frivolous reasons.

[desert rat]

Believe ANYTHING my chair or dean tell me.  They both lie to my face, telling me what they think I want to hear, then go ahead and do the opposite.

[PhD2B]

I will never agree to create a new course for a department in which I am only an adjunct.

[been around]

tamiam wrote:

 > For myself, I'm going to ignore my department head's advice to
> make myself inaccessible to students. If they need to
> communicate with me, they find a way. I may as well make it
> easy for them. I like the little buggers.


You must be new and incredibly naive.


Take the advice of your department chair. He obviously knows a lot more than you do honey.

[%sig%]

[in defense of tam]

been around wrote:

> tamiam wrote:
>
>  > For myself, I'm going to ignore my department head's advice
> to
> > make myself inaccessible to students. If they need to
> > communicate with me, they find a way. I may as well make it
> > easy for them. I like the little buggers.
>
>
> You must be new and incredibly naive.
>
>
> Take the advice of your department chair. He obviously knows a
> lot more than you do honey.
>

Better naive than condescending, IMHO.  Or jaded, for that matter.