are professors not required to check in on students?
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Anonymous
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are professors not required to check in on students if they skip class?
My DS stopped attending a class and not one email or phone call from the professor. |
Anonymous
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Lol
No |
Anonymous
I guess not... It's not an elementary school. |
Anonymous
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No, this is not high school. Unless students are graded on attendance, professors are not going to follow up on each student who misses class. This is especially true for larger lecture classes. In a smaller seminar, I would definitely follow up. In a class of 40+ students, I do not take attendance, nor do I follow up if someone doesn't show up to class.
-R1 Prof. |
Anonymous
| never heard of anyone checking on a student who wasn't in class... |
Anonymous
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No.
My BF’s H died during her son’s 1st semester and when he returned he didn’t leave his room for 2 weeks except to go to the bathroom. Nobody checked on him, nobody cared, nobody GAF. Her older son was a senior and he had friends check on him and 1 professors checked on him. It’s pathetic. |
Anonymous
| What’s even more pathetic if an employee doesn’t show up to work we check the welfare can’t imagine just ignoring someone in your community going missing and nobody cares. |
Anonymous
If someone quits showing up to work, they will still call and ask |
Anonymous
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That’s hilarious.
Of course professors don’t check in on students. |
Anonymous
But it is very common for kids to skip class. DS has a class of 100, but said that only 25 actually show up. |
Anonymous
It’s not hilarious. It’s sad and pathetic that universities are not held to some standard to check the welfare of students. |
Anonymous
If a student stops going to class for multiple classes someone should check on them. Nobody is talking about 1 or 2 classes. |
Anonymous
He didn't have a roommate or an RA? He probably didn't know anyone yet and kids are all in their own world anyway. |
Anonymous
Not true at all. After work, my coworkers and I went to a co-worker's house because he wasn't responding to calls or emails. We found him dead in his bed. The company simply used vacation time for his absence and would have done that for weeks. They probably would have terminated him once he ran out of vacation time. If we hadn't been close to him, no one would have known. |
Anonymous
| No, that’s your job as a parent. |