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« on: February 20, 2008, 05:18:37 PM » |
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Although most of the faculty who teach in the lab good job of keeping things clean and organized, there are several who allow students to trash the lab. I often clean up much of this just to keep the place functional. This week, I opened a drawer in the instructor's bench to get some extra paper towels. The drawer was stuffed full of broken pieces of glass tubing and ungraded papers.
So threw out the glass and sorted, stapled and stacked the papers. Then I noticed that the papers had check marks on the front but that none of the work had actually been graded. So I graded it. I didn't put scores, but I put a big red x through each incorrect response.
I'm waiting for the instructor to throw a huge fit. Then I'll calmly explain that I assumed that he had left both the waste and the papers for someone else to take care of. (The glass tubing is used only in the course corresponding to those papers.)
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francie_
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« Reply #1 on: February 20, 2008, 05:35:44 PM » |
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Are you sure you weren't grading homework from, say, 1988?
Sounds like the trashing is at an intolerable level, though. Speak to someone who can clamp down on this. Broken glass in a drawer cannot be a good thing.
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« Reply #2 on: February 20, 2008, 05:51:27 PM » |
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Its from this term. I clean out all the drawers at the end of each term. I'm a lone full-timer in a sea of adjuncts, most of whom are excellent but some of whom should not be within 50 ft of either students or a lab.
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« Reply #3 on: February 20, 2008, 07:37:56 PM » |
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It sounds as thought it's time to discuss the matter with the chair (or whoever is in charge of these adjuncts). Is there anything on the papers indicating whose section it was?
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« Reply #4 on: February 20, 2008, 08:09:44 PM » |
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I agree that leaving the papers in that drawer is dumb.
That said, I do often put checks of some sort or another on the top of papers that come in on time so as to later distinguish from ones that come in late.
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« Reply #5 on: February 21, 2008, 03:00:50 AM » |
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I'm amazed that anyone would choose willingly to grade papers that you didn't have to grade.
I can send you a whole bunch if you love to grade.
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« Reply #6 on: February 21, 2008, 08:58:00 AM » |
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You're a better person than I am.
I would have left it or placed the papers in a faculty area for the instructor to go hunt down for leaving in a lab drawer. That is pretty thoughtless.
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« Reply #7 on: February 21, 2008, 04:01:41 PM » |
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You can clean up the glass any time, but if you touch the papers I have stashed in my desk, I would want to rip you a new one. I think that this is awfully forward of you. I will grade the papers that I assign, thank you very much. But, if you feel the compulsive need to tidy up the world, I guess my sock drawer could use some organizing...
Really, the glass I can see, as it creates a problem for everyone. Anything beyond uncluttering the shared space is too much.
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« Reply #8 on: February 21, 2008, 05:49:56 PM » |
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You can clean up the glass any time, but if you touch the papers I have stashed in my desk, I would want to rip you a new one. I think that this is awfully forward of you. I will grade the papers that I assign, thank you very much. But, if you feel the compulsive need to tidy up the world, I guess my sock drawer could use some organizing...
Really, the glass I can see, as it creates a problem for everyone. Anything beyond uncluttering the shared space is too much.
Lab instructor benches are shared areas. Leaving broken glass in the drawer is unforgivable. If I cut my hand on broken glass that someone stashed there, there would be some severe consequences. I wouldn't be as upset about the papers, though. You shouldn't be leaving papers there, but how old were they? Did the adjunct just forget to take the reports home (and either forgot where they left them or intended to get them later)? |
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« Reply #9 on: February 21, 2008, 10:57:05 PM » |
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Did you ever consider that this was an evil (and now successful) plot to get you to throw away the trash and do someone else's grading? Damn they're good! I can't even get the janitor to clean up the Frito chips I dropped under my desk.
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« Reply #10 on: February 21, 2008, 11:01:49 PM » |
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You can clean up the glass any time, but if you touch the papers I have stashed in my desk, I would want to rip you a new one. I think that this is awfully forward of you. I will grade the papers that I assign, thank you very much. But, if you feel the compulsive need to tidy up the world, I guess my sock drawer could use some organizing...
Really, the glass I can see, as it creates a problem for everyone. Anything beyond uncluttering the shared space is too much.
If I cut my hand on broken glass that someone stashed there, there would be some severe consequences. But not as severe as if you cut your wrists, no? |
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« Reply #11 on: February 22, 2008, 05:08:21 AM » |
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In my days as an industrial chemist, leaving broken glass in a drawer would have resulted in a major investigation and potentially a disciplinary charge because of the potential danger to others.
Grading the papers though - that is just weird. If I left papers in the drawer and they emerged graded I would keep doing it!
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