It finally happened . . .
. . . I am officially keeping a student from graduating. As you might expect, I have a lot of guilt around this. The only class this student needed to graduate was mine. She knew this all semester. She also knew all semester she was failing. She was failing on every progress report and report card she got all semester. I don't think she ever passed a single test. She missed class a few times a week, stopped coming all together a few weeks ago, and didn't even show up to take her final. So why, you might ask, do I feel bad.
She came by today (ironically, while she should've been taking her state test for my class) and tried to guilt trip me into passing her. She's going to come back later and try to guilt trip me some more. And I'm going to have to say no over and over again. I REALLY REALLY wish that she was at least a BORDERLINE student so i could just pass her, but she's not. She wasn't even close. She simply didn't even remotely fulfill the requirements for the class.
So really, I have no choice, I have to keep this kid from graduating.
But I don't have to feel good about it.
posted by Rachel at
11:48 AM
4 Comments:
whatever man! that girl failed herself.
Well, it will be hard lesson learned for her, but maybe it will help teach her you can't get something for nothing.
And hopefully her parents will not join in the guilting! That would really suck.
Good luck resisting! Unfortunately I know that knowing you're doing the right thing doesn't make it any easier!
She did it to herself. I really hate that obviously some people in your class worked to at least pass, yet she couldn't even show up half the time or even TRY to take the final? I don't like when people try to freeload on passing a class.
I just read this article yesterday in the NY Times about why you shouldn't lie about your education on your resume. This one woman (who asked to remain anonymous, hmmm wonder why...) said she lies about graduating from college because she's "just 9 credits short of a degree". Excuse me? But plenty of us DID take those 9 credits to get our degrees, so why do you get to lie about it?
Sorry. I get out of hand sometimes.
uh, "just nine credits" isn't that like almost a whole semester???
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