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What's that? You accidentally double-booked the room where I'm holding a final exam? You're going to go ahead and move my entire class to another room less than 24 hours before the exam? Dream on. I may loathe these entitled, ungrateful little bastards sometimes, but they deserve to take their final exam in the same room where they've had class all semester.
They're not moving to another room at the last minute because you can't get your shit together.
Dealing with this today, though our exams are not for another few weeks. The only thing that pisses me off more than somebody screwing up a simple task is forcing me to sympathize with these little brats.
ReplyDeleteI hate it when students claim they have 2 finals at the same time. I used to think it was because they couldn't figure out the exam schedule. Most times, though, it's an asshat colleague who has set up his/her OWN special final exam time that almost always ends up conflicting with 2 other exams the student has.
ReplyDeleteSeriously, what is wrong with people. When confronted, they often go, "Uh, exam schedule? Well I couldn't make that time. So I chose my own."
In their own little worlds. MAKES ME CRAY CRAY!
Indeed. I've seen/hear of this, too, and I'm afraid it provides evidence that proffies, too, have gotten flakier. Making it to the exam, as scheduled, is a pretty basic proffie duty. There are, of course, reasons for excused absences (medical emergency, academic conference, etc.), but in that case one should arrange for a substitute (in advance or on the spur of the moment in the case of an emergency).
DeleteThis reminds me of a first-semester-fresh-flake in one of my classes who calls the department during exam week, about three hours before my exam, looking for me. The secretary gets me on the line and it turns out that he's there, waiting for the exam. I explain to him it's not for another three hours. He hems and haws and tries to suggest that perhaps I had originally said it was for [current time] but had later CHANGED it to [actual time]. I assure him I do not have this kind of power, and that the University tells ME when to administer the exam. Then we creep closer to the truth as he says he has ANOTHER exam at this time (in my department, I should add!) that he is currently skipping because he thought he had to "choose" which exam to take, since there were (in his feeble mind) at the same time. When I remind him that we are only ten minutes into the exam period, and that he still has time, the truth outs as he admits that he did not prepare for the other exam... and asks me if I can write him a note, excusing him from it.
ReplyDeleteI hung up.
Classic. Whatever happened to the days when students occasionally slept through exams, but that was it?
DeleteUnless both of two conflicting events are exams, I'd definitely say the exam gets priority. And in the case of conflicting exams, I'd say that the class used to coming to that room gets priority. If two classes that have used the room are in conflict. . . .somebody needs to post signs, lots and lots and lots of signs. And send emails. And then post people to explain the problem to the snowflakes who are still confused. And take role. Because otherwise you'll have someone realize halfway through the exam that (s)he is taking the wrong exam. During exam period, I even have sympathy for such confusion. Sleep deprivation and anxiety, combined, will produce that sort of mistake.
ReplyDeleteI just had a student complaining about having two exams at once. She was thankful when I showed her the exam schedule and told her that the flakey prof couldn't require her to take an exam at a different time than scheduled. Every semester our dean sends out a note to the faculty reminding us to stick to the schedule, but I think the students need to be told what's okay, too.
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