Today, I decided to give a break to my students halfway through my three hour lecture. The break became the end of the lecture, because nobody came back. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I fell asleep in class. I'm the teacher. FML
Today, I finally got the guts to walk out of class 30 minutes early, only to find that the back door was locked. As I stood there like an idiot trying to get it open, all 200 people in my class turned to laugh. My professor stared at me. I then walked back to my seat, sat down, and unpacked. 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, I fell asleep during naptime. I'm the teacher. FML
Today, I fell asleep in class. I'm the teacher; I've already given students detention for falling asleep in class this year. FML
Today, I wanted to punish a student for being late. I decided to start a pop quiz before he arrived. I was positive there wasn't enough time for him to finish. He scored full marks and I couldn't say a word. FML
Today, since I always fall asleep in class, I decided not to go to the bathroom beforehand, hoping the need to pee would keep me awake. I ended up falling asleep and wetting myself in the middle of the lecture. FML
Today, I fell asleep in my last period class. When I woke up my teacher said "you missed your bus". I grabbed all my stuff and ran out the room. My class mates were standing outside the class laughing. We still had an hour left in class. FML
Today, I gave a talk in my management class about creating effective presentations and holding people's attention. Go figure, pretty much nobody paid any attention. FML
Today, during a virtual class, I thought I was muted and said, “I’m gonna fake a technical issue and take a nap.” The professor responded, “Let us know how the nap goes.” I never logged back in. FML
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Top comments
LostInTheZone11 29
Keep teaching the empty room. Then they can't complain on not knowing the info on the test.
whassallt26 13
They paid for university, if they want to waste all that money let them
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Comments (78)
Doctor_W_H_O 18
Well now you can choose not to do it again since they decided to take advantage of your generosity
AbortionSurvivor 13
I took one class at university where the course co-ordinator would make everyone sign an attendance sheet at the end of each lecture. If your attendance rate was below 75% your access to all previous lectures and revision material that was posted online got cut off. I don't know what the rules at your particular university are, but maybe you could implement a similar policy
RichieRichhh 20
That's a good policy
missambitious 21
I had a class where the Professor took attendance at the begining of class and right after the break. If you left during break you were charged 1/2 an absence. People quickly learned after they had used up all their absences by leaving early.
Pentanol 17
Easiest thing is to give them a surprise test next class on the material that is meant to be covered in that part with a 40% weighting.
fmljosh1015 20
Ydi because 3 hours should've been enough time to get your point across for one day
leogachi 15
@18 If the class in only taught once a week, three hours is needed to give the students the information they need to pass the class. Even a two hour lecture wouldn't leave them with enough information by the end of the semester.
ChristinePi 36
How did they deserve it?? Their students left after an hour and half passed and no one came back. They all knew there was another hour and a half to go. OP should make sure that stuff is on the test and maybe even add it for extra credit questions too.
midjigirl 13
@18 you're right three hours should have, and probably would have, been enough. Too bad the students left after only an hour and a half.
juturnaamo 29
College classes are typically 3 hours per week in either 1 or 2 days. A 3 hour lecture is typical.
rainbowsRlove 15
easy way to fail each student not committed to learning material needed for passing a course
Bryce8 11
Seems like you didn't clearly tell the students that is was a break. The people who actually wanted to pass would not simply leave and not come back.
worldclassrager 41
Test them mostly on what you were going to say after the break...their issue not yours
dthindd 17
A good idea is saying "okay guys, you can leave your bags and stuff here and go for a quick 10 minute break" that way they'll have to come back :) good luck OP! I'm sure it's not your fault anyways :)
Lalala579121 28
Give them a pop quiz next class all on material you would have taught after the break.
9a_1z 12
A similar thing happened in a lecture I was in; about 150 of us went, 10 of us came back after the break. It was the day before an important deadline totally unrelated to the lecture though. It must be nice for your students that they can afford to squander their tuition fees like that.