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Seriously?? (NBR work vent)

SuperchicySuperchicy
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This is winter quarter at work, Spring quarter starts in about 3 1/2 weeks.  I have now gotten 4 e-mails from students wanting to know exam dates for next quarter so they can plan vacations during the spring quarter and not miss tests.  Seriously??? 

First, I don't even have the syllabus done, but this course is the "gatekeeping" course for the nursing program they are trying to get into and they've all heard horror stories about it, yet they want to go overseas on vacation in the middle of the quarter.  Indifferent

 FWIW I have no intention of telling them exam dates to aid in their vacation plans but I guess now I know why I am known as a b!tch, I keep interfering in their vacations!   Devil

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  • johnandkristinjohnandkristin
    Haha. That's crazy. I never thought about *taking days off* when I was in college. Well, except when I had a teacher that didn't take attendance...then I *might* skip a day:)
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  • kyfirewifekyfirewife member
    Vacations during the quarter while you're in school?!? People really do this?!? Indifferent

    If you'd said one student, I might think there was some special circumstance. But four? That's crazy.
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  • SuperchicySuperchicy
    I guess 4 out of 288 students isn't a huge percentage of the class, but I've still never had that many come right out and tell me they were planning vacations during the quarter.  Makes me that much less sympathetic when they come crying because they are failing.
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  • curlypie1curlypie1
    What ever happened to spring break?
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  • Ttimes3Ttimes3
    imageSuperchicy:

    First, I don't even have the syllabus done, but this course is the "gatekeeping" course for the nursing program they are trying to get into and they've all heard horror stories about it, yet they want to go overseas on vacation in the middle of the quarter.  Indifferent

     FWIW I have no intention of telling them exam dates to aid in their vacation plans but I guess now I know why I am known as a b!tch, I keep interfering in their vacations!   Devil

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