We had the project since the beginning of the school year. The date on the assignment was clear, it never changed and the instructor gave us many hints about the assignments and many warnings about the date it was due. Yet when the time came for the assignment to be due a lot of students moaned that they didn't have enough time. They were up all night frantically working on it but they didn't seemed to worried about it. After all they finished the assignment.
Some students did try and worked on it for those couple weeks. So when they listened to the group of procrastinators talk about how they got distracted by the television or by hanging out with friends instead of doing homework they just shook their heads and smiled.
Now fast forward a couple of weeks.
The instructor holds up the assignment, and you can just feel the anticipation as she begins to hand out the papers. Some of the people wear a great big grin as they peek a there paper while others hold a look of disappointment. Then the complaining begins. The people who waited to the last minute start trashing the instructor. They got a poor grade.
'The instructor hates me..'
'She marks so unfairly...'
'What gives her the right to give me this grade..'
'Its not my fault, its not my fault, its not my FAULT..'
What has happened to accountability? Why is it the teachers fault?
She didn't make them go to the movies. She didn't get distracted by television and yet somehow its all her fault. We live in a 'ME' generation. Our ancestors worked hard to build a life for us and now we think because of that we don't have to work or try at all. Everything should be handed to us on a silver platter. We should be rewarded for no effort at all. It is sad and because of this mentality a good instructor is leaving. She said she can no longer endure the looks of hate when students get their marks back and their complaining and tireless efforts for her to change their grades to grades undeserving of the work produced. How pathetic is that? The students put more effort into getting her to change their grade then in the assignment itself.
How ridiculous.
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