Oh, I'd name two people who were up in arms and... not looking for a fight exactly, but looking for people to validate their trauma (plenty of people happy to do that there) and, more crucially, their preferred blame for that trauma right off the bat. And saying "I hear you, but I need you to listen to me too" just isn't fucking enough for people like that, apparently.
I'm just hoping it's the same one so I don't risk getting infected with whatever terrible ailment he had! I wish sick days were more workable for both instructors and students--we have a drop lab for this reason, of course, but this early in the semester the students worry about not getting a good quiz grade and what if they need the drop later?? It's not a particularly difficult class, honestly, being an elective lab aimed at upperclassmen, but a lot of our students are often pre-med and they develop a habit of being very concerned about GPAs that I can't quite blame them for even as I wish they'd understand that both my instructor and I are more concerned about what they take away from the course than the grade they get assigned--and that's factored into the course design, too.
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Date: 2019-02-20 07:54 pm (UTC)I'm just hoping it's the same one so I don't risk getting infected with whatever terrible ailment he had! I wish sick days were more workable for both instructors and students--we have a drop lab for this reason, of course, but this early in the semester the students worry about not getting a good quiz grade and what if they need the drop later?? It's not a particularly difficult class, honestly, being an elective lab aimed at upperclassmen, but a lot of our students are often pre-med and they develop a habit of being very concerned about GPAs that I can't quite blame them for even as I wish they'd understand that both my instructor and I are more concerned about what they take away from the course than the grade they get assigned--and that's factored into the course design, too.