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am I being a cow bag?

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Blandmum · 07/11/2005 17:29

One of my students (age 18)

Said student has requested 2 days off from school to see a band play. Will now miss the most difficult part of the A2 course. The band has nothing to do with school, it is a personal thing.

Student asked me to give up my planning time/ lunch/ break time to teach this work separtaly.

I have refused and told the student to work on the topic and see me with any specific probelms, but that i would not teach the whole thing again because the student wanted to skive 2 days.

Does that make me a witch?

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dinosaur · 07/11/2005 17:30

No, of course not!

Hausfrau · 07/11/2005 17:30

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moondog · 07/11/2005 17:30

No

Cheeky sod!!!

I can't believe he would even ask!!

puff · 07/11/2005 17:31

No, they are pushing it

ScummyMummy · 07/11/2005 17:31

no. Sounds eminently reasonable to me.

beckybrastraps · 07/11/2005 17:38

Cheeky kid! Do they feel hard done by, or were they just giving it a shot? I mean, there's no harm in asking, but I do find that some kids feel it is their right and your job to fit in around their plans!

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Blandmum · 07/11/2005 17:42

Students seems OK, I am just left with peripheral guild. It is a shitty topic and the student will find is nearly impossible to understand if the lesson is missed

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CarolinaMoon · 07/11/2005 17:44

god, some kids are so self-centred . You've got nothing to feel guilty about. It's his/her choice not to be at your lessons.

beckybrastraps · 07/11/2005 17:46

Just out of interest, what is the topic?

ScummyMummy · 07/11/2005 17:46

Well letting him/her have a stab at it on the understanding that if s/he's totally baffled s/he can ask you a few Qs sounds more than generous, I think. No guilt necessary!

Stilltrue · 07/11/2005 17:46

OMG Not only would I not feel guilty, but I'd coolly and politely have suggested to your so called student that perhaps the band could be missed entirely given the importance of the topic. Otoh, at least you were consulted in the first place.

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Blandmum · 07/11/2005 17:47

The resting potential and action potential in the neurone!

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Lio · 07/11/2005 17:49

Wow! Inconceivable for this to have happened with my school/parents. Out of interest, what band is it? And what do the parents say?

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Blandmum · 07/11/2005 17:49

no idea, no idea

and like you, not in my life either!

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beckybrastraps · 07/11/2005 17:51

Ha ha!

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Blandmum · 07/11/2005 17:52

No bloody chance of uderstading that alone eh?

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Caligula · 07/11/2005 17:53

Gosh, it wouldn't have occurred to me at A level, that it was my teacher's problem if I missed a lesson even through no fault of my own, like illness. What they did then, was to suggest that you make sure you copy up the notes from your friends. I don't think it even occurred to anybody in the chain that the teacher should re-teach the lesson!

I guess you could suggest that the pupil could tape the lesson, but the problem with that is that it then makes it your problem, not his/ hers.

beckybrastraps · 07/11/2005 18:07

I'm actually starting to feel sorry for him/her. The problem is though that they certainly WILL have problems getting it, and you will end up having to go over it at some point. But I would wait until after they've done a test - just to have a bit of a giggle at the answers. I mean, to teach them a valuable lesson in priorities.

Gobbledigook · 07/11/2005 18:11

MB - how can this even be considered? I'm shocked tbh - it's just not something I would ever have thought of asking!!! You just didn't take time off school and that was it!

I think your response was absolutely the right one and if it were my ds asking it's what I'd want you to say as his teacher!

Gobbledigook · 07/11/2005 18:12

OMG ACTION POTENTIALS!! Now that takes me back!!!

Gobbledigook · 07/11/2005 18:13

Sad as I am - I'd rather be in your lesson! I LOVED biology!

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Blandmum · 07/11/2005 18:13

Of all the things I have taught them over the last 4 terms, this is about the worst thing that I can think of. This or the Krebs Cycle! tempted to let them see the error of their ways before stepping in!

Damn cheak tho isn't it?

'I want to go and have a jolly, so people give up your time to tutor me'

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Blandmum · 07/11/2005 18:14

GDG, I have the whole thing on powerpoint, with animations and the works....it is a shit hot lesson, if I say so myself, complete with them acting out the passage of ions etc, role play, the works, VAKI, differentiation, and they would rather go to a gig! I ask you!

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puff · 07/11/2005 18:17

It is a cheek and if you accommodate them in any way, you can bet they'll carry on doing it!

It would be different if they were playing in a band and some important talent scout was coming to see them - I might view that differently. This is just ridiculous.

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Blandmum · 07/11/2005 18:18

TBH, that was twhat I thout was going on ie playing in a band, then it bacame clear it was going to a gig! FFS!

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