By policy, we cannot record a grade for students filling out such things as their phone numbers because it is not academic. What they (the amorphous THEY) do not want, is for us to penalize someone who doesn't bring it in.
So, I told them I would give them 100 points if they brought it in and nothing if they did not - then showed the difference between the average of someone who has 3 grades (80, 90, and 100) and 2 grades (80 and 90). I thought this would show them why they needed to bring it in.
Nope.
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Well, they say you can take a horse to water, but you can't make it drink. It must be so exasperating for you trying to do your best by these students. Do they think they are going to wake up one day and be straight A students? No doubt they think it is all someone other person's fault that they are not getting good grades. That's the problem in a lot of places these days - always blame someone else for your own failings.
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