Facebook parents shocked I tell you

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Sad that work was assigned during a holiday. I am guessing anti Thanksgiving professors.

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Anonymous wrote:Sad that work was assigned during a holiday. I am guessing anti Thanksgiving professors.

It's the end of the semester approaching. Unless a prof assigned something on Monday of Thanksgiving week due Wed or the next Monday I don't see the issue. Most professors detail key assignments in the syllabus given out in August/early Sept. SO your student likely had the opportunity to work ahead and not have tons of HW over thanksgiving, most just chose to leave the assignments to the end (like majority of kids do)

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Anonymous wrote:+1. Maybe it was grandparents complaining.

No, grandparents knew breaks provided extra study time for exams and term papers.

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Anonymous wrote:Both of my college kids had a fair amount of work over Thanksgiving. Admittedly, I was a little bummed. I don’t ever remember having work to do over Thanksgiving. I would never do anything about it, nor say anything to my kids, but was hoping to have them more available over the weekend.

Never in high school. You occasionally got one evil teacher, but it was rare. My kids' elementary principal used to make her teachers assign a project over Christmas break...until the backlash. I mean, Christ, even in college once you left after Finals you had a free winter break to unwind.

I remember every Thanksgiving break in college I would lug all of my text books home thinking I would study for Finals..and every year I never cracked them open that break.

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Anonymous wrote:Post after post today on my kid’s college parent page complaining their snowflakes had work due over the past holiday week. My own spent hours a day studying for a major test this past Saturday.

They were shocked I tell you! I think some of them will be calling their kid’s bosses when they have to take home work!

Don’t laugh. People ask if they their parents can’ come their new hire benefits orientation ALL THE TIME. We have a hard and fast rule of no parents allowed.

WTF! Seriously? In my decades long work career I've never heard of any such thing.

[Anonymous]

Big state college in the 80s. I had a huge paper due the Monday after Thanksgiving break freshman and sophomore year. It was common back then afaik.

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Men/Professors are socially clueless.

My son had exam Tuesday, price for flight was $780 instead of $250. Cancelled Tuesday exam on Friday. Cost us $500 bucks.

Coach has lifts at 6am Monday. A 8 am flight could have saved us $100, really need to lift at 6am on Monday.

Think!

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Anonymous wrote:So? I was annoyed that my kid who came home for the entire week had multiple assignments in every class due the Tuesday and Wednesday before Thanksgiving and also had homework due the following week to stress about over the weekend. It was stressful for her and it limited our time together. As a professor, I had assignments due the Friday before break and I know many colleagues who also assigned work due a day or two before the holiday who won't grade over the weekend. Then again, I would've been annoyed if my kid had had everything due after the holiday break. I think it's fine that some parents are annoyed. Meanwhile, my husband is annoyed that we didn't get the following Monday off as well, because he and our kids love to watch NFL games on Sunday and he was sad to see them go before they could watch together. (My kids do report that many of their classes were half empty today anyhow, something to keep in mind for future breaks.)

Where and what do you teach? Just curious. DS is an athlete at Big Ten (in season), and he had games in the run up, along with exams up until Wednesday. Then work over the break, then back for practice. In all classes. He's a senior, it' been this way for all years except COVID.

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Anonymous wrote:Big state college in the 80s. I had a huge paper due the Monday after Thanksgiving break freshman and sophomore year. It was common back then afaik.

Mid 90s graduate. Never had a big assignment due the couple days after Thanksgiving. Not saying it's possible or required but there are obviously other ways to schedule. Some people just like looking tough for the sake of being tough.

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Anonymous wrote:Men/Professors are socially clueless.

My son had exam Tuesday, price for flight was $780 instead of $250. Cancelled Tuesday exam on Friday. Cost us $500 bucks.

Coach has lifts at 6am Monday. A 8 am flight could have saved us $100, really need to lift at 6am on Monday.

Think!

now THAT is all VERY annoying.

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Anonymous wrote:Don’t act like you’re so much better and chiller than these parents when you are also on these insane groups for helicopter parents too.

I’m shocked there are Facebook parent pages for this. Cut the cord already! Are you going to form a college PTA too?

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My European clients dropped a ton of work on my group on Wednesday, resulting in most of us working all weekend. We were pissed too. We didn’t complain to our boss (and I doubt these students complained to their professors) but I get complaining general. Working over a holiday weekend sucks.

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I went to college in the 80's and always had a ton of work to do over the Thanksgiving break. Final papers and the crunch before exams. Didn't these parents who are complaining go to college?

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Anonymous wrote:Both of my college kids had a fair amount of work over Thanksgiving. Admittedly, I was a little bummed. I don’t ever remember having work to do over Thanksgiving. I would never do anything about it, nor say anything to my kids, but was hoping to have them more available over the weekend.

Never in high school. You occasionally got one evil teacher, but it was rare. My kids' elementary principal used to make her teachers assign a project over Christmas break...until the backlash.

That was good training. I’ve had to work on RFP responses over Christmas holidays. Welcome to the real world.

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Anonymous wrote:Sad that work was assigned during a holiday. I am guessing anti Thanksgiving professors.

Nope. Usually the deadlines were in the syllabus at the beginning of the semester. It's up to students to do the work when they can, and usually they save it for when they are home.