Today, I received an email from my professor informing me that if I missed another class, I'd be dropped from the course. I have field experience to complete tomorrow as part of my major. I emailed her two weeks ago to let her know, and we're excused by the dean. She doesn't care. FML
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Today, I found out that my professor dropped me from class because I missed a Zoom meeting. The only class I needed to graduate. Why did I miss the meeting? Because I was in labor for 32 hours. FML
Today, I received an email from my professor asking me not to jump ahead on assignments as it makes the other students look bad. FML
Today, I tried to explain to my professor why I’d missed two classes. Even with a doctor’s note explaining my very serious health issues, she rolled her eyes and huffed, "Maybe if you’re ‘oh so sick,’ you should just drop out!” Gee, sorry for trying to improve my life through adversity. FML
Today, my college English teacher told me if I wanted an explanation for my grade I would have to schedule a conference to come to her office. It's an online class. I took an online class because I can't come in. FML
Today, I've been making extremely good progress in my online class. Or at least… I was, until the deadline to complete it was suddenly pushed a whole month forward, causing me to be "behind." Then my teacher had the nerve to email me, telling me I needed to catch up. FML
Today, I drove 3 hours to get to a class, just to have the professor leave a note on the classroom door saying that she wasn't coming. FML
Today, and for the past two weeks, my teacher hasn't taken a class, saying that she doesn't want to teach a class as loud as ours. When she does teach, it's near impossible to hear her over the yelling of other students. I checked the syllabus for an exam and it has two topics that she didn't cover. The exam is in two days. FML
Today, I left my grandmother's burial to take a midterm. Earlier I e-mailed the professor to ask permission to take it later, and she flat out said "no." I left my grieving family, and traveled hours back to school. I went to class, only to discover that the prof decided to move the exam date. FML
Today, I drove to my college campus for my 8 a.m. class, parked, walked the mile and a half to my classroom, just to find out class had been cancelled. The prof didn't send an email because she couldn't remember her password. I paid $1200 to be taught by this woman, who has a doctorate. FML
Today, I overslept and missed both of my morning classes. I was supposed to lead an instructional discussion in my communications class that was worth a lot of points. Now my grade has dropped from an A to an F. FML
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pygmalion_fml 4
I've encountered similar situations before. Your professor can't drop you from the class, or penalize your grade, for an excused absence. Speak with someone higher up, such as the Dean. Professors can't rewrite the rules.
iplayrugby18 11
Your professor will care when you bring it to the dean's attention that a professor is going against him/her. The professor has the right to do what they want especially if it's stated in the syllabus but if you have permission from the dean...dean trumps professor.
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Comments (107)
Riemurasia 0
At least you have prove and can go to the examcommission with it.
barbiegirl491 1
well your professor is a bitch
PrimeStarscream 30
You should have paid attention in class.
writergirl23 19
Well go to the dean about it. Duh.
raithex 0
If you're excused by the dean, then why does it matter? Can't he/she put you back into the class?
peoplearestupido 0
it says that shes been out for two weeks and in a week you could have 1 or more days that you have a certain class, meaning OP must have missed more than 1 day of class. had to make an account just to explain how that works to the stupid people..
lexiepullen 7
Learn to go to class. It's not that difficult. Then when you need to miss class your professors won't mind.
roachan 4
The rest of the comments saying YDI, you don't know anything about the circumstances. I am not in college but there are many other reasons for missing/class school other than 'blowing it off'. We do not know how many other classes she missed or for what reasons. For all we know, she could've gotten the flu or something unavoidable where she couldn't come to classes. We also don't know the professor's policy for missing classes. On the other hand, I obviously can't say she wasn't missing classes for silly reasons (Such as being lazy, tired etc). There's not enough information about her situation in order to say YDI or not.
worldclassrager 41
Things overlap it happens...she should let it go...if not things should work toward your favor...
zeema_fml 3
Maybe if you had not missed classes prior to this it wouldn't be a problem. You couldn't have had to do field work every class.