College professors who cancel classes before Thanksgiving - RANT
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Anonymous
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It is really great when the kids can come home a day early.
I understand the pressure to cancel. But Please. If you are going to cancel, can you announce it in September, or even October if you must wait? Maybe announce it before those of us who purchased nonrefundable tickets are stuck with a ticket that respects what you said on the syllabus? By the time his calc class was cancelled, tickets were mostly gone, or 4 times the usual price. Rant over. Thank you. |
Anonymous
| It's not great that you pay for a class that ends up canceled. That should be the rant. |
Anonymous
I agree. Since this seems to be a "thing", they should just adapt the schedule. |
Anonymous
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My husband is a professor at UMd. Teachervone vlass this semester that is on Tues and Thurs evenings at 7.
He planned on teaching but university shut down dorms at 7 pm. Rather than asking kids to bring luggage etc to class, and try to leave from there at 830, he cancelled. |
Anonymous
| ugh ‘teaches one’ |
Anonymous
| Oh the humanity! |
Anonymous
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If I recall correctly from university days, at least some of my professors made the deal what if we were on schedule or ahead, we could leave early, but not if we were running behind. It was a good incentive.
I appreciated the extra time to pack and clean up before vacation. Then again, I always liked a little down time before travel anyway. |
Anonymous
| Why would professors commit themselves months on advance to canceling a class session when they have no idea whether they’ll be ahead or behind on the syllabus at that point? It’s not like you actually lost money on this, your kid came home the same day you’d originally planned. |
Anonymous
| Why could you just not use the ticket you had bought? I would not pay some surcharge/mark up because my kid refused to leave school the next day. Why can't they chill for that night? You sound a bit indulgent. |
Anonymous
Seriously! I don’t understand this thread. So your child ended up just chilling for an extra night- What’s the big deal? |
Anonymous
| Maybe, the professor should TEACH THE CLASS! am with you OP. |
Anonymous
No real point when more than half the students cut out early. |
Anonymous
| I am with you on this one. DD is freshman and every single one of her classes was cancelled on M,T, & W. They think they are doing a favor for the out of state kids, but they are not. I rebooked a new flight at a $200 change fee plus the flight cost almost $100 more to fly her home last Friday so she did not have to sit in largely empty dorm for 5 days with nothing to do. |
Anonymous
We did use the original ticket. We accommodated his schedule as of early October. The flight was Thursday morning, and not easy for him or us but that was the best one available for us given his expected classes on Wednesday. The night before would have been much easier for everyone, had we known. My post was called a rant, because I was complaining. Rant. Not a life crisis, but a rant. Trust me. None of us wasted Wednesday lamenting anything. He studied, did laundry, and lived his life. The dorm did not serve dinner, which was pissy because that was not a "closed" date on the contract I signed in August. He just ate elsewhere, but of course had to pay for that. No, this isn't an earth shattering problem. |
Anonymous
To effing bad for the students, I would say. Teach the effing class. |