Hey,
i am in your class this semester but have missed the first 4 days do to some unexpected problems with work and family. ;) I would like 2 make up the work if u can send me the syllabus and all the handouts thank you, and also if i missed any important info. Will we b needing the book this semester because I am on a budget. LOL!
thx!
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On the one hand this could be a joke. On the other hand I can see this being completely genuine.
I hold an adjunct faculty appointment at a local community college and have received similar e-mails on numerous occasions.
Probably a future Rat voter, but not all the way there yet, since there is a gesture toward making up the missed work. The next email should be that they should be given an A due to social justice requirements and the grade should be taken from an evil conservative if the professor can find any.
Still early enuff to drop the class, wats da big deal?
should have replied with the url of this video...
I needed time off some for a few planned church retreats while I was in college. I made up for missed studies BEFORE they were do in class and took a test a week before the rest of the class. That goes over a lot better than a drunken email sent from a cell phone at 3 am.
On the other hand....the student is also a paying CUSTOMER. The professor’s salary is being paid by his students. This isn’t high school, I’m actually tired of the status-quo at universities where the professors behave as though their customers are beneath them and treat them as such...including their hostile attitude toward Christians.
If this were any other business the request, while not well written, is perfectly reasonable for a customer to ask for. Here on FR we all have issues with the culture at universities yet we still bow to the “authority” of professors. Seriously, how much respect should they receive? They indoctrinate our kids while taking their money.
I agree there’s a cultural decay of “respect for elders” but I’ve real issue with professors in their ivory towers looking down on everyone and treating their customers like dirt.
I’m an adjunct at a community college and a university.
I just received an e-mail from a student, who “forgot” to take the first two weekly quizzes because he was “looking for work”. He reminded me he had spoken to me about it at the “brake” during our last class.
He also yawns very loudly during class about every 3 minutes and he slept during a video I was showing last week because “I already saw something about this in my psych class.” (This is at the university, not the community college)
The best excuse I have ever gotten for a kid missing class: “Baby mamma had to do her community service so I had to watch the kid and couldn’t come to class.”