I wasn’t going to blog today

Workout notes Rest; this cold has me tired out. I slept 12 hours though.

Olivia and I fly to icy Peoria tonight.

Other stuff:

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From Rate Your Students:

Hard to Remember Rodney, who claimed that he was failing my course due to a “short term memory” disability that made it difficult for him to remember and recall things on an exam, especially since mine were so hard. If I really cared about my students, I would make my questions easier and not require so much “memory skill.” Well, howdy doody buddy. I support accommodations for learning disabilities, but this is ridiculous. I hate to break it to you, Einstein, but years ago, your problem wasn’t called a “short term memory disability,” it was called STUPID.

Gail with the Gall, who missed the final exam because she didn’t pay attention to the syllabus or the gazillion announcements in class as to when it was. When she came begging to make it up, I reminded her that the syllabus indicates YOU CANNOT MISS THE FINAL EXAM. The little snot filed a grade complaint, which was later denied and her grade kept the same as I had given it. But here’s the kicker—a few weeks later she came to me because she couldn’t get into one of my higher-level classes since she had not passed my introductory course….would I be willing to waive the prerequisite for her? Um, I would rather stick a fork in my eye. In my other one too.

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Ralphing Rita, who missed the last 3 weeks of the semester due to “drinking too much” and then called the day before the final exam, asking if I would reserve a classroom and teach her everything she missed. Rita, if I did that, I would be the one with the drinking problem.

And finally, Ludditic Lisa, an online student who emailed me 3 weeks into the semester and said, “I’m not sure I’m getting this online class thing. I’m not very good with computers. I don’t even have one.”

Comment

Fundies sometimes whine about “Christians being persecuted in America”. Really.

I wonder how a group that can worship openly and get tax exemption for its worship places can claim “persecution”; if you notice most of its complaints are about the government not allowing for these clowns to have a captive audience for their faith.

Evolved and Rational has a nice photo:

Update

“hate speech” means denouncing bigotry?