Reply #23: "...a little too far ahead of myself thinking about things down the road." [View All]

[nealmhughes]

This is an apology? For a felony? Confession and saying that he was "a little too far ahead"? "Thing down the road"?!?

This rather reminds me of the girl who turned in a beautifully written essay to me. It was perfect in its citations and used all the appropriate source texts I had indicated for its use. The only problem: it was the same class's assignment a semester previous. She had just copied her name on an old A paper. I changed the essay assignments randomly this time around. It wasn't the previous two semester's assignment!

I gave her an F and a 0 and said, "Some nerve, trying to cheat on me. I am smarter than you and you couldn't fool me if you tried." I made sure hers was the last to get back to the students.

She stood up as I was leaving for them to mull over their grades and to go to lunch and as I picked up the leftover tests, she stood up, raised her hand and lunged at me with her hand raised, ready to slap me. I stood back, ordered her to get in her seat immediately and get her belongings and leave my classroom and not to come back until I told her she could not come back to my building until I said she could and that I had better not see her in the library or on my street or to make contact to me until 8:45 Monday morning.

I made her wait until 9:30, sending someone in my office to tell her I wasn't ready yet, that we were discussing the situation with the higher ups. In reality I was drinking coffee and playing a video game. I wanted her to stew...

Finally I sent for her. She came in in tears and I had 3 witnesses, "for my protection" as I told her. Her excuse: She had been busy with rush and rolled her eyes and said, "It's not like you have any power or anything..." I then asked her what she meant, and she said, "Dr. M. is the professor, it's his class, isn't it, it's his grade, let him talk to me." I simply said, "Dr. M. doesn't grade you, I do. I am in control of the day to day workings of the class. He will not be pleased. If you wish, I will make you an appt., but he will not be happy of what you did and may have you expelled as he makes everyone write out and sign the honor pledge and read it aloud before every test. Do you really want that? I will call him at home right now. He will be on his way in to his office in an hour. We can go to the dean together then."

She burst into tears at that point. I said, "Take your F and go play with your kiddie club and tell all your frat rats what a dick I am and for them to kick my ass. I'll put every one of you punks in jail and have you kicked off campus. Rush comes over my classroom decorum and your honesty? What kind of freaking person are you?" Turned my back and walked out, leaving her crying. One by one my friends walked out, muttering naughty words under their breath...

I know this guy, in other words: I think I had his sister in HY-101 at Alabama...