JFC
Another rant post, just a pre-warning ;)
Ok, so I was ranting in my last post or so about how totally shite some of my students were? Yeah well today takes the cake. Marking assignments for Diploma students and I kid you not, 7 of those assignments were duplicates. They had changed some formatting around, but all of the content was exactly the fucking same. Another 3 students also submitted practically identical work. Like wtf? How in the hell did they expect to get away with that? I have never - and granted, I haven't been teaching all that long - ever had anything like this before. I've had the odd couple of students pull it, but nothing like the bs that this group have been doing this semester. And it's not just with me, it's also with other teachers in other units.
I left work at 7pm tonight because of this shit. Ironically on National Leave Work on Time Day. Pfft. I ended up hand-balling the problem to my coordinator to deal with because seriously, I don't get paid for this shit. I wrote her an email and left a note with all of the colluded assignments on her desk to deal with. Hopefully she actually follows up with an appropriate course of action, not just a 'you need to resubmit' because this is so far beyond that. I want to in all honesty fail these students. This is totally unacceptable.
What really pisses me off is that after today, I'm not being paid for teaching duties. My teaching semester is finished. And yet I still have shit to mark because of all of these set-backs. I'm probably going to have to come in on my day off next week - unpaid - to finish all of this. Not happy Jan!
Anyway, I have my final exams for uni this week. I should totally be studying right now, but tomorrow's exam I'm pretty set for - I've aced my way through the unit thus far - and after today my brain can't do much else. Friday's exam I'm not looking forward to so send me lots of brain-waves and luck guys! I'm comforting myself with watching The Avengers (while wearing my Cap America beanie :D). Early night tonight because I can't be late tomorrow!
Hope everyone is having a better week than I'm having! Take care of yourselves ♥
Ok, so I was ranting in my last post or so about how totally shite some of my students were? Yeah well today takes the cake. Marking assignments for Diploma students and I kid you not, 7 of those assignments were duplicates. They had changed some formatting around, but all of the content was exactly the fucking same. Another 3 students also submitted practically identical work. Like wtf? How in the hell did they expect to get away with that? I have never - and granted, I haven't been teaching all that long - ever had anything like this before. I've had the odd couple of students pull it, but nothing like the bs that this group have been doing this semester. And it's not just with me, it's also with other teachers in other units.
I left work at 7pm tonight because of this shit. Ironically on National Leave Work on Time Day. Pfft. I ended up hand-balling the problem to my coordinator to deal with because seriously, I don't get paid for this shit. I wrote her an email and left a note with all of the colluded assignments on her desk to deal with. Hopefully she actually follows up with an appropriate course of action, not just a 'you need to resubmit' because this is so far beyond that. I want to in all honesty fail these students. This is totally unacceptable.
What really pisses me off is that after today, I'm not being paid for teaching duties. My teaching semester is finished. And yet I still have shit to mark because of all of these set-backs. I'm probably going to have to come in on my day off next week - unpaid - to finish all of this. Not happy Jan!
Anyway, I have my final exams for uni this week. I should totally be studying right now, but tomorrow's exam I'm pretty set for - I've aced my way through the unit thus far - and after today my brain can't do much else. Friday's exam I'm not looking forward to so send me lots of brain-waves and luck guys! I'm comforting myself with watching The Avengers (while wearing my Cap America beanie :D). Early night tonight because I can't be late tomorrow!
Hope everyone is having a better week than I'm having! Take care of yourselves ♥