DD’s prof schedules final for 12/23!!!

[Anonymous]

She's gonna have to travel homes with the rest of the plebes that can't leave early!

[Anonymous]

I remember being super annoyed that my university had class on the 24th of December. In a Catholic European country!

Ah well. She'll live, OP.

[Anonymous]

This was my DD last year. It was a bummer, sure, but it's a good lesson for adulthood.

We've all had jobs where we've gotten the short straw and had to work the day before a holiday or the holiday eve.

[Anonymous]

I’m playing the world’s shortest song on the world’s smallest violin for you. Grow up! Some people have real problems.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You guys are all so old you’ve forgotten how college works. The professors do not choose the date for their final exam.
The time and date of the final exam is based on when the class meets. So, all the students who have a class on Mon/We’d/Fri at 10am will take their final at 8 am on the Monday of finals week. Otherwise every professor would schedule exams on the first day of finals week and all the students would have conflicts. If finals week ends on 12/23 someone had to draw the short stick.

While I did not know this to be true, I was going to respond with the hypothesis that it is. If not this exactly, some computer preparing some master schedule to assure no conflicts. No way does a professor just pick a day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think you should email the professor directly and explain that your child already booked a flight that day and must take the exam earlier.


Just kidding.

This is life. You and your kid need to roll with the punches.

Just wait until 10 years from now when your kid is married with children and announces they can’t come home for Christmas at all.

Would it surprise you to know how often these emails are sent?!

Do not book flights until you know the exam schedule!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am old but I had a final on the 23rd every year. I remember because it was really hard to find a ride home to DC from my remote SLAC six hours away.

Nearly every year in college I had the last final in the Thursday afternoon slot. Ugh. In the last spring semester of grad school, all my finals/papers were done before finals started. Bliss.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You guys are all so old you’ve forgotten how college works. The professors do not choose the date for their final exam.
The time and date of the final exam is based on when the class meets. So, all the students who have a class on Mon/We’d/Fri at 10am will take their final at 8 am on the Monday of finals week. Otherwise every professor would schedule exams on the first day of finals week and all the students would have conflicts. If finals week ends on 12/23 someone had to draw the short stick.

Yes. I am a professor and I can assure you there’s no benefit to having the exam scheduled last! It means less time to correct them and it screws up your holiday more.

OP sounds so clueless and entitled.

I am a professor too.

I have NO control over when the school schedules the semester, breaks, finals week, etc. Because I care about the student's education, I hold class Thanksgiving week, if my class falls on a pre-break date. Then it begins. Students start guilting me about holding class, since they want to go home early. Or they tell me that Dr. So and So has cancelled his class that week. That does not mean the other professor is so cool and I am an ogre. The other professor is getting out of work/a lecture , and covering less in their class.

Many students think the easiest classes/teachers are the best. That is not the case, but then again, they may not be in college for the right reasons.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kids have been told they can’t take it remotely and must remain in town until after the exam. I find that outrageous. Is this typical? We are flabbergasted!

OP is just SO over the top!!! Can you imagine how demanding and entitled their kids must be?

Did they not consult the course syllabus or academic calendar months ago? Did they think the posted dates did not apply to them?

What a way to walk round the world...

[Anonymous]

Guess what, I work for the Federal government.

Christmas Eve and the day after Thanksgiving are not Federal holidays.

I once had an employee who was FLABBERGASTED that he was expected to take annual leave if he wanted these days off.

Now I find myself wondering if he might have been OP's brother.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OMG OP, that is so outrageous...because...because. I can't think of why.

I agree.

Hee Hee

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You guys are all so old you’ve forgotten how college works. The professors do not choose the date for their final exam.
The time and date of the final exam is based on when the class meets. So, all the students who have a class on Mon/We’d/Fri at 10am will take their final at 8 am on the Monday of finals week. Otherwise every professor would schedule exams on the first day of finals week and all the students would have conflicts. If finals week ends on 12/23 someone had to draw the short stick.

Yes. I am a professor and I can assure you there’s no benefit to having the exam scheduled last! It means less time to correct them and it screws up your holiday more.

OP sounds so clueless and entitled.

I am a professor too.

I have NO control over when the school schedules the semester, breaks, finals week, etc. Because I care about the student's education, I hold class Thanksgiving week, if my class falls on a pre-break date. Then it begins. Students start guilting me about holding class, since they want to go home early. Or they tell me that Dr. So and So has cancelled his class that week. That does not mean the other professor is so cool and I am an ogre. The other professor is getting out of work/a lecture , and covering less in their class.

Many students think the easiest classes/teachers are the best. That is not the case, but then again, they may not be in college for the right reasons.

Yes. Most students go to college because their community expects them to.

[Anonymous]

Didn't she/you already know what the official academic calendar looks like?

[Anonymous]

Imagine that. An exam during exam week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Guess what, I work for the Federal government.

Christmas Eve and the day after Thanksgiving are not Federal holidays.

I once had an employee who was FLABBERGASTED that he was expected to take annual leave if he wanted these days off.

Now I find myself wondering if he might have been OP's brother.

Right, and PTO is granted based on seniority. So when OP’s kid enters the workplace in a few years, odds are he/she/they will have to work during the last two weeks of December.