I can relate to Harry's frustrations (see below)
My favorite is the student that I haven't seen since the second week of the
semester who comes in 48 hours before grades are due, and asks for an
incomplete.
Rip Pisacreta, Ph.D.
Professor, Psychology,
Ferris State University
Big Rapids, MI 49307
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>From: "Harry Avis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Student responsibility (was scantrons)
>Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 17:12:04 -0800
>
>Perhaps there is a larger question here. About twice a day, I have students
>asking me for a stapler or scotch tape. These are students in other classes
>who show up with a paper or essay and expect the school (in one student's
>words) "to provide us with staplers". Sorry, Charlie. I must be from
>another
>generation (or perhaps another century). If my memory serves me, I would
>rather have drunk muddy water and sleep in a hollow log than walk into a
>professor's office and ask for office supplies.
>
>Students need to learn to take responsibility. Providing them with
>Scantrons, pencils, staplers, and scotch tape is worse than high school. I
>give my students outlines of my notes via power point handouts, cover the
>material in the book quite carefully and base my exam on information in the
>book and my outlines. An exam period does not go by when students do not
>get
>angry because I don't have a review period or review guide. What in the
>hell
>are the outlines?
>
>Students fail to show up for class and then expect me to provide them with
>handouts I have given the class that day. They sometimes do this two weeks
>later.
>
>I am not upset with the students as much as with other faculty who cater to
>this infantile behavior.
>Most of my students are responsible and hard working. I champion them with
>other faculty because I can remember being less than organized my self and
>sometimes being less than entralled my some of my required courses. Not
>even
>my classmate, Abe Lincoln, was always prepared. But
>catering to irresponsible behavior reinforces irresponsible behavior.
>
>Harry Avis Ph.D.
>Sierra College
>Rocklin, CA 95677
>
>Life is opinion - Marcus Aurelius
>There is nothing that is good or bad, but that thinking makes it so -
>Shakespeare
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