Can a student rarely attend lectures and still do well in a class?

[Anonymous]

It is possible for the right kid, I used to skip morning classes but made sure to catch up, I got high A

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hope you son fails and fails miserably. You two deserve each other. How insufferable mom and son.

Nice. You are the one who sounds miserable and angry! Now go pour that next glass of wine.

[Anonymous]

I don’t understand why you would pay for a school with worthless professors. Sounds like your son is at the wrong school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand why you would pay for a school with worthless professors. Sounds like your son is at the wrong school.

Hey, I went to an Ivy. We had professors like the OP's son's. Heavy accent, even I could barely understand them. Either Russian or Asian. Always in math/science. We barely learned anything in the lectures but the tutorials with grad students made all the difference.

They're found at all major research universities.

[Anonymous]

In some European universities attendance is not required. Perhaps that is why his prof doesn't care?

[Anonymous]

1) Unless the class is poorly taught (meaning the prof just reads her power point) they will miss a lot

2) Kid seems grade, rather than learning-motivated. Hope you did not reinforce that by making him think the goal of high school was a certain attaining admission to a certain school ranking, rather than becoming well educated (i.e. gaining knowledge).

3) I would be very annoyed and find out what he is doing instead of going to class. That is LITERALLY his job at this stage of life and you are paying him to do it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What other more important things is he doing? I can understand students who need to work to pay for their bills sometimes skipping class but he sounds like an entitled douche who is fine with wasting his family’s money for no good reason.

Okay, he is probably sleeping in. Is anything wrong with that? Probably. But I am fine, like I said, if he gets good grades and does the work...and it appears he is. That's what it's like when your kid is smart and can pull it off. Apparently you are not familiar with that phenomenon.

Okay, now you are getting defensive. Sorry if you post a question and don't like the responses that come back. You said you want a responsible, successful kid. Does that sound like someone who skips a whole semester of an important core course? Not to me. And I am a college professor. Guess what impression he is making?

Not really sure why you are paying for a school where the classes are so bad that missing them is a good plan (i.e., no one cares and they are not necessary for learning).

Please tell us the school so we can cross it off our lists.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Back in the day, I took some classes where I never went to class, only showed up for the final, and still got an A.

But those were blow-off liberal arts classes, not chemistry or physics.

I tried to do this, I got an F!

[Anonymous]

I had an 8:25 class at a selective college with a professor with a heavy accent (I could not understand one word he said). On the syllabus it said if you read the material you would do fine (or something like that). So I stopped going to class, showed up for exams having read the material, and got an A. This was decades ago...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hope you son fails and fails miserably. You two deserve each other. How insufferable mom and son.

Nice. You are the one who sounds miserable and angry! Now go pour that next glass of wine.

LOL. I was not angry. No one gives f if your kid fails out. He (and you) are totally worthless to me. My kids already graduated college (and doing well in life).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hope you son fails and fails miserably. You two deserve each other. How insufferable mom and son. He (and you) are totally worthless to me.

NP. You do sound like a lovely person.

[Anonymous]

I actually one semester went to the first day of class. My School had no home work, class attendance did not count. The midterm was 50 percent and final was 50 percent and cumulative. you had choice of skipping midterm grade and doing final as 100 percent.

Guess what my 18 year old mind skipped class the entire semester. I actually bought text book final weeks, did five in a row all nighters, and then returned texted books as school has a one week return policy and pulled a 2.5. I passed all five classes with Cs and Bs. My straight A room mate was amazed. Very dangerous

[Anonymous]

Yet, it sounds like you are bragging about your bravado.

I sincerely feel bad for your parents.

Hope you became responsible somewhere along the way since then.

[Anonymous]

I've worked in higher ed for over 20 years. Students who do this and ace courses are usually in cheating rings.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Back in the day, I took some classes where I never went to class, only showed up for the final, and still got an A.

But those were blow-off liberal arts classes, not chemistry or physics.

It shows. You write terribly.