From: Ann N. Seafallic
To: Angry Professor
Subject: Quiz
Dear Dr. Professor,
I was wondering what is going to be on the quiz tomorrow, what concepts and ideas we have to write about,
thanks, Ann
Monday, November 12, 2007
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I think her twin brother sent me the same email this morning. :(
(I just noticed your sub-title, causing my colleague no little distress when I laughed alarmingly loudly!)
Dear Angry Professor,
I have just finished on the potty, and I need someone to help me wipe. Can you?
Sincerely,
N. Titlement.
Dear Ann,
All the stuff that we talked about in class and that I said was going to be on the quiz. Those concepts and ideas.
Dr. Professor
Yes, that's about it. Save and flunk.
I just flipped out on two of my classes for not reading. The first one, pretty standard. The second, I think they think I'm a lunatic. I feel like an idiot, and wonder how long it'll be before I'm fired. At this point, as much as I love being a professor . . . kind of looking forward to being given a burned out car in Detroit to live in. It might be better.
WtC: LOL!
AP, I love the pseudonyms you give your students. Priceless!
My afternoon Comp II class is performing similar Stupid Student Tricks as of late. [sigh]
My college days came late to me as I spent 10 years nailing boards together into houses before earning (and then inheriting) the wherewithal to attend a university and pursue my interest in plant systematics. There, I developed a deep disregard of the medical profession. I shared many courses with a claque of pre-meds which inevitably responded to the call for questions with, "Is this going to be on the test?" or, "How much of this do we have to know?"
I should post about this but I am too tired, it is too baroque and involved but one of my worst students in a fairly basic course turns out not to need just a D to pass, but a C, because she is planning to get certified to teach in that subject.
She has managed to misrepresent her background in this field to three faculty members: all have been led to believe she has taken the prerequisites for this course, albeit some time ago, with credits on a junior college transcript which has not posted yet.
She does not accept that the content of those courses is still important in the rest of the sequence - just because you are a junior you cannot assume you no longer need the knowledge gained freshman year.
She wants to pass without learning the material because she needs to graduate and get a job teaching this material.
This is her minor subject area. Her major subject area is theology, where she wishes to preach ethics.
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