WTF? College student?
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Cashmere - Dec 17, 2010 12:27:00 pm PST #11215 of 30000
Now tagless for your comfort.
DawnK - Dec 17, 2010 12:32:17 pm PST #11216 of 30000
giraffe mode
A student's father just emailed me to ask for a higher grade for his son. I so don't understand this.
Hil, my daughter is a college freshman and I want to assure you that I would never, ever email one of her profs unless she was deathly ill and would not be attending class for weeks. That is just crazy!!!!! She's an adult, I feel that she has to fight her own battles and if she tanked a class, well that's on her. IOW, what Cash said
Hil R. - Dec 17, 2010 12:34:31 pm PST #11217 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
This kid, by the way, is getting an F. He's not even close to being on the borderline of passing -- he's clearly failed.
Sparky1 - Dec 17, 2010 12:39:58 pm PST #11218 of 30000
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I've had more than one parent call me, and my students are law students, not undergrads.
billytea - Dec 17, 2010 12:46:04 pm PST #11219 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
"Your son has already failed my class. Don't make him fail at life too. DON'T BE THAT GUY!"
And then, get it made into a stamp.
Tom Scola - Dec 17, 2010 12:48:07 pm PST #11220 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
You need to work the phrase "Do the math" into your reply to the parent, too.
Hil R. - Dec 17, 2010 12:50:07 pm PST #11221 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
The father says his son "showed improvement on the final exam." No, he really didn't.
sj - Dec 17, 2010 12:54:32 pm PST #11222 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Hil, that's ridiculous.
WS & DCJ good luck with the new truck!
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Cashmere - Dec 17, 2010 12:56:52 pm PST #11223 of 30000
Now tagless for your comfort.
"Your son has already failed my class. Don't make him fail at life too. DON'T BE THAT GUY!"
And then, get it made into a stamp.
*hugs billytea tight*
"showed improvement on the final exam."
Even if he did "show improvement" there's the whole matter of NOT GETTING ENOUGH POINTS to pass the fucking exam. Let alone the class.
I swear, on all that buffistas hold holy in this universe I will NEVER EVER EVER try to get my kid's grade changed if they fail to do the work, get the answers right, don't show up to class or just generally fuck off at school, any school, in any grade or university.
Spidra Webster - Dec 17, 2010 1:03:42 pm PST #11224 of 30000
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
Rakesh is not only a swell altruistic dude, he's a handsome dude!
Hil, I think my jaw is still on the ground somewhere.
I have spent the last couple hours doctoring a recipe to achieve KICKASS Mexican chocolate cupcakes. During the process, my sister who has the flu came down to get a glass and use the kitchen tap (instead of calling us to bring them to her). I washed the tap down before touching it. I don't know if it's psychosomatic, but not long after I started feeling the way I feel when I'm starting to come down with something. Either I'm imagining it or I'm coincidentally coming down with it just after she visited the kitchen. She's had it two days now. I've tried to stay the hell away from her but if she's been doing things like nipping down to the kitchen, she's probably been spreading her germs for a while now. Grrr!
I had a rare opportunity to meet people tonight but I won't be going if I'm coming down with something and likely to expose them. I also don't need to be sick because I need to rehearse for the upcoming gig. Man, I miss living alone. One good thing about my hermitry was that I hardly ever got sick. With the constant stream of my sister's babysitting jobs that she brings *here*, it's a never-ending tap of creeping crud.