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Good. The sooner they learn about the consequences of their decisions, the sooner we can turn this country around as educators.
Dude! If that's your metric of success, you're setting yourself up to be editor of the Journal of Don Quixote Action Research. |
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kcdavis6274
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« Reply #46 on: February 01, 2012, 05:13:00 PM » |
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Good. The sooner they learn about the consequences of their decisions, the sooner we can turn this country around as educators.
Dude! If that's your metric of success, you're setting yourself up to be editor of the Journal of Don Quixote Action Research.What do you suggest? Rely on the parents? Rely on the politicians? Rely on the pop-culture role models? Don't make me laugh. |
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« Reply #47 on: February 02, 2012, 09:49:57 PM » |
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It's almost midterm. A student sent me an email about dead grandfather and a missing class. At first, I thought it was real, then, I am not sure. Is this sincere? Should I just believe them? If it's not real, I won't mind student missing classes and saying nothing about grandfather's death.
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« Reply #48 on: February 03, 2012, 07:34:37 AM » |
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It's almost midterm. A student sent me an email about dead grandfather and a missing class. At first, I thought it was real, then, I am not sure. Is this sincere? Should I just believe them? If it's not real, I won't mind student missing classes and saying nothing about grandfather's death.
If it doesn't matter in terms of your workload, then always give the student the benefit of the doubt. It's easier all around and is the humane thing to do. |
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If you haven't got either the anatomical or metaphorical balls to post your own question on a pseudonymous internet forum, then academia is the wrong job for you.
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prof_cj
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« Reply #49 on: February 03, 2012, 10:21:35 AM » |
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First dead relative of the year used as an excuse this week. The student emailed me information about the services and provided links to the funeral home, newspaper announcement, and today brought in paper copies of the booklet from the services themselves, inviting me to call any of the numbers attached (personal ones) to check. He also brought in documentation about going to student services for emotional counseling.
I think this one might deserve a second chance on the major assignment he missed...
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tinyzombie
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« Reply #50 on: February 03, 2012, 11:38:38 AM » |
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Good. The sooner they learn about the consequences of their decisions, the sooner we can turn this country around as educators.
Dude! If that's your metric of success, you're setting yourself up to be editor of the Journal of Don Quixote Action Research.I almost spat water all over my keyboard. I love MG. |
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Correct, as usual, TZ. That's because you are not Dude. TZ, however, is Dude. TZ is my favorite. I wish YOU began with A. |
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llanfair
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« Reply #51 on: February 04, 2012, 12:23:34 PM » |
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Good. The sooner they learn about the consequences of their decisions, the sooner we can turn this country around as educators.
Dude! If that's your metric of success, you're setting yourself up to be editor of the Journal of Don Quixote Action Research.I almost spat water all over my keyboard. I love MG.As do we all. |
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This place stinks like a pair of armoured trousers after the Hundred Years' War.
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gennimom
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« Reply #52 on: February 04, 2012, 01:15:47 PM » |
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Good. The sooner they learn about the consequences of their decisions, the sooner we can turn this country around as educators.
Dude! If that's your metric of success, you're setting yourself up to be editor of the Journal of Don Quixote Action Research.I almost spat water all over my keyboard. I love MG.As do we all. +3 |
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...only after reading gm's post, my new mantra is "always listen to gennimom".
Monday reeks! - Garfield The outside of a horse is good for the inside of a person (or something like that). |
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kcdavis6274
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« Reply #53 on: February 06, 2012, 01:39:45 AM » |
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So it's easier to laugh away the problem than to take proactive steps in solving it?
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« Reply #54 on: February 06, 2012, 07:29:35 AM » |
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So it's easier to laugh away the problem than to take proactive steps in solving it?
What do you think can be solved? People can have humane policies and trust that those who abuse them will have the net result being not enough learning or people can be the excuse police, waste a ton of time and energy on treating everyone like a criminal, erode good will of unlucky students who have true tragedies, and still not catch all the miscreants. Which one is the best choice for people who are professors because they love to teach and see the grading aspect as a cost of doing the fun part? |
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If you haven't got either the anatomical or metaphorical balls to post your own question on a pseudonymous internet forum, then academia is the wrong job for you.
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« Reply #55 on: February 06, 2012, 04:50:16 PM » |
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Even if not institutionally required to do so, why wouldn't a prof extend mercy and extensions, etc., to a student who provided legit documentation of such a tragedy?
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