TEACHSOC: late arrivals revisited

[Sarah Murray]

Hi all... Though I asked you, my on-line colleagues, before consulting with my fellow adjuncts and faculty at the institution where I teach, I now have gotten "in-person" feedback about low attendance and late arrivals with very small classes...and now I don't feel like such a wimp!  The feedback I'm getting is that if you have only 2 students on a given day, dismiss them early, because you'll only end up repeating yourself the following week anyway.  Apparently this problem has gotten worse over the past decade, what with many of our students working two jobs and trying to carry 18 credits.  Some in the soc. department are aspiring firemen and police officers and are pursuing a degree because it's a de facto requirement for those jobs -- but many such students are not particularly college-oriented.  Of course, that doesn't mean the classes have to accommodate their attitudes, and I'm still going to follow the sound advice I got here regarding late arrivals! Sarah