What to write about...Well, one thing that i have been thinking about lately, is the idea of deadlines. Teachers expect and demand that we, as students, hand assignments in on time. Yet they seem to disappear into some sort of black hole for months and months before they are ever returned to us. I really fail to see the fairness in all of that. If we have deadlines then teachers should have deadlines in giving things back. Sure, teachers have lives and are busy, and i am sure that they have trouble finding the time to mark all of our papers and assignments, but students are busy people too. If we get penalized five percent per day that our assignment is due, then it is only fair that if the teachers take much longer in handing things back then they should have some sort of penalty. Obviously this idea is extremely far fetched and unrealistic but as a student it is definitely frustrating to be constantly waiting to have an assignment returned to you.
Then of course there is the infamous situation of a teacher losing your assignment all together. I am sure that by grade 12 almost all of us, have experienced this at some point or another. Teachers are only human and they are obviously entitled to make mistakes, but shouldn't you get some sort of advantage if you are forced to redo an assignment because of their mistake? Again, never going to happen, but wouldn't it be great if it did?
This whole idea process sparked after this past week, when i handed in a specific assignment (on time!) that had to be checked over by the teacher and then handed back to continue with the next part of the assignment. We had three work periods to work on this second step of the assignment, however, for some reason the teacher that i have for that class (who shall remain nameless) had not yet marked it. So there i was, sitting in front of a computer for 3 full work periods trying to work on something that i simply didnt have. Finally, by the end of the third class she handed me the paper and said, "Oh, i had your paper marked days ago, i was just too busy the last few classes to hand it back to you." I was furious, because now, like everyone else in the class i have a deadline at the end of next week, however i have gotten absolutely no time to work on it, while other students have conferenced with her repeatedly during class time. I don't think that this is fair at all, and it leaves me frustrated and left to get that assignment done by the deadline or i will be penalized. What do you think?
Then of course there is the infamous situation of a teacher losing your assignment all together. I am sure that by grade 12 almost all of us, have experienced this at some point or another. Teachers are only human and they are obviously entitled to make mistakes, but shouldn't you get some sort of advantage if you are forced to redo an assignment because of their mistake? Again, never going to happen, but wouldn't it be great if it did?
This whole idea process sparked after this past week, when i handed in a specific assignment (on time!) that had to be checked over by the teacher and then handed back to continue with the next part of the assignment. We had three work periods to work on this second step of the assignment, however, for some reason the teacher that i have for that class (who shall remain nameless) had not yet marked it. So there i was, sitting in front of a computer for 3 full work periods trying to work on something that i simply didnt have. Finally, by the end of the third class she handed me the paper and said, "Oh, i had your paper marked days ago, i was just too busy the last few classes to hand it back to you." I was furious, because now, like everyone else in the class i have a deadline at the end of next week, however i have gotten absolutely no time to work on it, while other students have conferenced with her repeatedly during class time. I don't think that this is fair at all, and it leaves me frustrated and left to get that assignment done by the deadline or i will be penalized. What do you think?
posted by Brigitte Benning at 6:04 AM
2 Comments:
Geez. Lay back a bit. Making everything rush rush rush isnt good on you. Deadlines are that bad to make someone "furious". I mean you said it yourself... teachers are busy and so are students. As for a teacher penalizing a student for late work--THEY ARE WAITING ON YOU. Then it takes time to mark it, if you want a well thought through mark. The only reason you notice that it takes "forever" to get it back is because its YOURS that you are waiting for. So then its a big deal
I understand what you're saying, but unfortunately, that's how it works in every job you get. You do work and hand in reports for some greater purpose, and you may never know what the real point was.
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