High school.
You imagine that what costs your parents does not have a cost to you. :rolleyes: You’ll find out.
You are being paid to teach them. That makes them customers in a sense.
Yes the student is a customer, and a customer who is aware of how schools operate before he put down his money. It is not news that you need to be in class on time. :lightbulb
When the student tries to get the teacher to make special accomdations for him, he’s trying to get something he hasn’t paid for. That’s what tutors are for and they cost extra.
And what about the other students who also paid for the class? Are they getting their money’s worth if the teacher allows other students to disrupt it? Are they getting their money’s worth if the lecture is rushed at the end or there’s less time for Q&A because the teacher had to repeat part of it at the beginning for the late student?
Yes, they need to meet you half-way. No, you still have to meet them half-way, too.
The teacher and students are already meeting “half way” by holding this class at an agreed time and place with an agreed curriculum.
He doesn’t live in that class room. There are probably things he’d rather be talking about than Photoshop 101. But you do need that class so do your part and get there.
The teacher has already done enormous work and prep before he steps into that class. Now it’s time for your half… get there, listen, ask appropriate questions, do the assignments.
From your own example, it sounds like a simple email would have been ideal.
A U professor may have 200 students among all his classes. With those numbers simple emails stop being simple.
It sounds like the lecturers where you come from a realy nice,
I’ve seen serious jackasses, but expecting students to be in class on time is not a failure to be “nice”.
if i was late for a lecture i couldnt even attend becuse the door would be locked
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Hopefully that didn’t shock you the second time you were late.
Sounds like that teacher had enough with students dragging in late and decided to take a stand. Teachers are responsible for maintaining an orderly classroom. They do what they have to do.
I remember that i used a piece of softwear that had 2 hours a week clases for the hole year, but I was the only one who was using that peice of softwear and so was the only one who would turn up for the classes. in the end the lecturer gave me a photocopy of his note book and said “Just come find me in my office if you have any problems”, he didnt have a cluee how to use it anyway so it wasnt as if i lost much but i got stuck once and went to his office he siad.
“Can you please come find me during classe time im bussy”
i mean WTF i was paying for the lecter he wasnt giving and all i want is a bit of help during the time he was meant to teach us!
As a “customer” you should not have accepted that deal. You paid for class led by a teacher, not an independent study period.
If explaining that to the teacher got no result, that was something you should have brought up with the department head or the dean. Enforcing teacher responsibilities is part of their job. They can’t do it if they don’t know there’s a problem.
Teachers ARE obligated to teach the classes they are being paid to teach. They ARE obligated to follow the rules.
Accomodating students who can’t get to class on time is not one of the rules, however. I bet your student handbook even explains the student’s obligation to be in class on time.
Please open up a dedicated thread on teachers instead. Cheers.
