Again, I'm don't disagree with you. But, our service to the students can take many forms sometimes our illness can be subliminal and low level, but enough that we're not aware of it or it lays us low when were on campus. It's certainly not cut and dry. So, don't draw any inferences from my "three semester" comment. I merely pulled this year out of the air as a mode of conversataion and example. I've been exceedingly lucky. I haven't taken a day of sick leave in the 42 years I've been at VSU except for the two months of recovery from my cerebral hemorrahage. Maybe that's not good fortune, since I always seem to get my winter cold during a break or on a weekend. So far, this year, no cold, flu, or whatever. But, even when I had cancer and the operation was during the semester, I transposed classes from face-to-face to computerized distancing without taking a day of sick leave (that's a story in itself and was not my choice). So, that "I don't have it" is as rare as a do-do bird, and then it does occur we usually just talk and discuss meaningful history asides.
Stuart McKelvie wrote: >Dear Louis, > >From your many posts we know that you take your teaching seriously. Your current one only reinforces that. > >You say that you have not had to resort to dismissing class in the last three semesters, which seems to imply that you have done it before, albeit I am sure infrequently. > >However, we have an obligation to offer our teaching services to students who want to be there and have paid to be there. Unless one is personally ill, I cannot see why we would not just buckle down and rise to the occasion. There could be students in the class who had similar feelings but dragged themselves out anyway. > >Your honesty is not in question. However, I disagree with your sentiments. > >Sincerely, > >Stuart > >_____________________________________________________ > > "Floreat Labore" > > > "Recti cultus pectora roborant" > >Stuart J. McKelvie, Ph.D., Phone: 819 822 9600 x 2402 >Department of Psychology, Fax: 819 822 9661 >Bishop's University, >2600 rue College, >Sherbrooke, >Québec J1M 1Z7, >Canada. > >E-mail: [email protected] (or [email protected]) > >Bishop's University Psychology Department Web Page: >http://www.ubishops.ca/ccc/div/soc/psy > > Floreat Labore" > > > >_______________________________________________________ > > > > >--- >You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. >To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13368.9b8fe41d7a9a359029570f1d2ef42440&n=T&l=tips&o=1086 >or send a blank email to leave-1086-13368.9b8fe41d7a9a359029570f1d2ef42...@fsulist.frostburg.edu > --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=1087 or send a blank email to leave-1087-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
