This may have worked. I once excused a student for being late because the geese were being aggressive.
Late
Submitted 2 months ago by ickplant@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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DrabPoultry@midwest.social 2 months ago
toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
i’m not a teacher, but if i was i’d excuse it just because they took the effort to compose such a crazy story. probably learned more than i’d have taught them that day a anyway
bampop@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If the class was on Kafka I’d give them top marks
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m newly a teacher (of adults), and I accept literally any excuse anyone gives me. I suspect that I’ll change that as time goes on, but I don’t even really get excuses.
DrabPoultry@midwest.social 2 months ago
Oh, the funniest part of this to me was how certain I was it was true. I used to have to find alternate routes into the building all the time because of the geese. I think they nested in the bushes near all the doors. If it wasn’t, it was a very good lie and I appreciated the effort anyway.
Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 2 months ago
who cares about collage attendance?
in my uni no one cared, of you’re late, it’s just a bit rude, of you don’t show up, no one cares.
what matters are the graded assignments and exams. if a student aces those but never stepped in a lecture hall, does that matter?
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
One of my biggest pet peeves in college was professors who took attendance. Bitch, I’m paying you to be here, if I don’t want to come to class, that’s on me. It was usually because they knew that most people could skip every class and still pass.
I even once had a class in a lecture hall with at least 100 students, where the teacher took attendance using some stupid “clicker” thing that we had to buy at the school bookstore. Ridiculous. Pisses me off just thinking about it.
DrabPoultry@midwest.social 2 months ago
This was for a lab I was teaching, so they had to be there in person. It was a 3 hour block, so I wouldn’t have even asked why they were late. I only even remember 5+ years later because they came rushing in with an explanation and I thought it was hilarious.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If you can pass my class without attending lecture, why wouldn’t you just ask to test out of the class???
…
I scream, into the void.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I accepted “I’m sorry, it was just too nice a day to spend it sitting in a basement with no windows” once because man, they had a point.
DrabPoultry@midwest.social 2 months ago
Immediate failure for not being academia levels of brain-broken. You’ll sit in your cube and like it!
Lawnman23@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Damn cobra chickens getting all hissy and angry just because I don’t have bread for them. Entitled bastards.
can@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Respectfully, I am in tears,
My brain at random
garbagebagel@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Might make this my work signature tbh
TheBat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
There’s no bug. But there’s a mirror and that student has turned into a bug.
cicadagen@ani.social 2 months ago
That time I was reincarnated as a bug and got spooked by my own reflection.
dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Klear@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Kafkaesque as shit
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
OP is Gregor Samsa
mugthol@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Kafkaesque
floo@retrolemmy.com 2 months ago
I mean, I’m still marking you absent. But you’re definitely getting an A for creative effort!
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Even sending me a note that you’re going to be late is more consideration than I usually get. I’ve got enough on-spectrum students that I can very much see this being a legit scenario, too (though I teach CS so it’s a little expected). IDK, if they’re an otherwise decent student I might let this slide, though almost entirely for the novelty of someone actually letting me know they’re running late.
Tommelot@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The specific wording of the note is a direct reference to Kafka’s metamorphosis! So depending on the class and year, teacher should be proud.
tdawg@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Hey, the were honest. I’d let it fly
faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
And scare the poor student even more???
SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world 2 months ago
When I move You move just like that
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Hell yeah hey dj bring that back
whostosay@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I expect more from you, Spruce.
I’ll see you after class ;)
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Last time i’ve read this it hadn’t that huge white spacing.
MissJinx@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Sir, this is a Wendy’s
toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
ma’am, this is the last time i’m gonna tell you to stop that before i call Costco security.
whostosay@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If one more motherfucker walks in and says this shit in target I’m gonna lose it
MissJinx@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Sir this is not a bug, it’s a hot dog
whostosay@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’ll allow it
BangelaQuirkel@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Did nobody get the reference or is everybody in on the joke?
whostosay@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You have some bug jousting reference you wanna let the class in on?
BangelaQuirkel@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’d like to think they are Gregor Samsa in denial and about to come to the conclusion that they are the bug. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Metamorphosis
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 months ago
Everytime I encounter a praying mantis, it’s like this. I see them, them see me. I am like “oh cool a mantis.” It gets all defensive, raising those fucking scythe arms. I am like “whoa bud chill” and then it flies at my face, I smack it out of the air and am like “now why’d you have to go an do that for? Now you’re fucked up.”
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
He’s so high he doesn’t realize that the bug blocking his door is the professor
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Its professor Hanks
sib.illinois.edu/departments/…/faculty
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TheBat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I thought you were joking
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Hanks
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Why does she have wings!?
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Redbull