Everyone knows who I am talking about, those people who walk into class 10 minutes late and only come to class seven or eight times a semester and still receive a passing grade. This is my second year at Cabrini and since I have started, my professors have been very strict on how many days a student is allowed to miss class. They range from approximately two to five unexcused absences. After that, the teacher threatens to lower your class grade a letter for every absence after that.
In a couple of my classes there are those people who show up either on a test day or once in a while in between test days to show the professor that they have not dropped their class. Still they always make it to the midterm and the final to get their passing grade even though they rarely showed up for the class.
When they do show up for class they are normally late, have no textbook or notebook, put their feet up on the table, take up half a table when they need a nap in the middle of class and talk throughout it, disrupting everyone. I pay for the classes I go to and unlike some people I intend to learn for the amount of tuition I am paying, and I certainly do not need rude people like this disrupting class when they feel like coming that day.
A lot of students work very hard throughout the semester to get a good grade. They do all the homework assigned, all the projects and wake up every morning to get to class. So how do the people who hardly show up to class still receive a passing grade? How is that supposed to be fair? I am sure that they probably do not recieve an A or a B, but the fact that they still pass without going to class, not doing their homework or taking notes makes me upset.
College is a fun time, but people who get a free ride like this are going to have a huge shock when they go out into the real world. If they cannot even handle waking up to go to class then I guess they will get what is coming to them when they get a job and find out what it means to be an adult.
If these people are not willing to come to class, then do the people who are paying their tuition to attend class the favor of either dropping the class, or when you do decide to come, be quiet so the rest of us can learn.
Posted to Web by: Scott Fobes
