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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How old are you? [/quote]

He said "30s." He's an Assistant Professor, tenure track, with a writing sabbatical next year (usually happens in year 4), so I'm guessing early-to-mid-30s.

A lot of us trained at top-tier research universities learn to treat students with some measure of patronizing contempt. Some of us grow out of that as we realize that we will never be Judith Butler (who is actually a lovely professor and person) or Jacques Derrida or Mark Sundberg (neither of whom I know personally). We will never be a name on the lips of anyone other than the people in our field who know the most current research.

At some point, most of us come to see our students as whole people, young and flawed, and recognize that dealing with them is part of what a college does. I would also submit that we have all proffered excuses at some point in our lives that are bullshit or sound like it. The excuse doesn't matter unless it comes with verification; what matters is not being an asshole when you explain to the student what will happen next, even if that is that s/he will receive a "0" for the exam unless s/he has some verification of an extraordinary circumstance.[/quote]

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