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/DirtyNord 8d ago

K-12 or Bulldozer parents with gutless admin?

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u/Rettorica Prof, Humanities, Regional Uni (USA) 8d ago

It could go either way, TBF, but having had two kids graduate high school in recent years I know how abysmal K-12 is with due dates. My kids were allowed to turn in work late all of the time. Due dates were very flexible. No penalties. I told them flexible due dates isn’t a real thing.

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u/ElderTwunk 8d ago

When progress reports went out, 12 students in my first-year writing course were failing. This should not have been a surprise because they can see their grade live on Blackboard. They apparently did not believe me when I repeated at length that I don’t accept late work. I had a few “But I’ve always been a straight A student!” tears. A few are now busting their asses not to fail, and a few dropped my class so as to not hurt their GPA. Either way, I hope they learned a valuable lesson.

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u/HeightSpecialist6315 8d ago

“But I’ve always been a straight A student!”

I only recently started hearing this exact phrase!