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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tejek who wrote (262966)	12/2/2005 2:23:57 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575178

"Why do these people think they will not get caught?" Audacity. My wife is TA for a class. The semester she had two students that missed tests because they likely weren't prepared. One tried to claim that he had to skip the day of the exam because he had to go help his parents clean up after the hurricane. That is an excused absence, but you have to get approval from the university before it is valid. he never was able to come up with the approval form... Then there is another one that claimed he was sick and had a doctor's excuse. Which he hasn't been able to produce either, but that isn't the problem. Any way, he was scheduled for a make up exam, but somehow got confused and went to the wrong place. Then he started this little dance about how he can't take time off and she basically needs to work around his schedule. And she needs to do it quickly because finals are coming up, blah, blah, blah. Finally, she got fed up and told him that she didn't see where she was required to give a make up exam to someone who keeps skipping out on tests. That is when he threatened to complain to the dean and she had better be prepared to be there, while also hinting broadly that he was a graduating senior. Which, BTW, turned out to be false, he is classed as a Junior. I guess they learn this stuff early. Make it up, it doesn't have to even be vaguely connected to reality. And keep hammering the same theme, hopefully they will just give up. In this case, the student in question doesn't have even a vague idea how academia works, else he would have made a more credible threat. To imagine that a dean would mediate a dispute between a TA and a student who hadn't discussed an issue with the prof. and the department head first borders on fantasy. So no, they didn't think they would get caught. And if they did, they could wiggle out somehow. It is like DeLay and the redistricting in Texas, get the political appointees to kill the finding that the redistricting was illegal and approve it any way. The use the fact that the Justice Department approved of the redistricting to get the case thrown out when it was challenged in court. When you can make the rules and provide your own checks and balances, a lot of things become possible...