I’m going to talk about students for a little bit.
There seems to be a pattern emerging with my class attendance. On the days that work is due in class I lose anywhere between 8 -12 of the up to 16 students in a given class. This is a persistent repeating habit. When work is due the kids are not there. Today this truth applied to all of my classes. Perhaps they thought if they didn’t show up they could turn the paper in late and still get the full credit for the work. Nope, that is high school styled nonsense right there.
I don’t do that.
I will say this: I teach four levels of English and the final level of ENG had more absence emails (and more absences) than my first level class. The first level folks simply didn’t bother to explain not showing up. I have an absence policy and a late work policy, but that high school mentality means that these kids will all show up on Wednesday claiming not to know or understand the policy and expecting to turn their work in. That culture has to change.