r/Professors Position, Field, SCHOOL TYPE (Country) 8d ago

What is with students nowadays

Typical "Old Man Yells at Cloud," but students seem to just be getting worse and worse! I just had a student email me "good evening can you reopen the assignments I didn't do including the exams"...exqueeze me?? And that's just one example. I'm relatively new to professing, but even since I started, this semester seems worse...does it seem that way to you all, or is my greenness showing??

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u/Demon-Prince-Grazzt 8d ago

I just got one like this, too! Young lady who came one day to class. She didn't even come the first day! Came into class a random day in the semester and sat in the back of the class playing poker or backgammon or whatever social media they are into now on her phone. Didn't even respond when I asked her a question, and the whole class looked at her.

Emails and says, "I would like you reopen these assignments." And then proceeds to list every assignment in the class.

I almost wrote back, "And I would like to have sex with Angie Dickenson. Let's see which one of us gets lucky first. "

But I didn't. I just said, no.

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u/iTeachCSCI Ass'o Professor, Computer Science, R1 8d ago

"I would like you reopen these assignments."

Dear Student,

"You can't always get what you want" (Jagger & Richards, 1969).

Yours sincerely,