Plan for lateness (college edition)
Since I am one of those who is chronically late, and considering I rode with Megan to school today, and she told me that she has to be in class and on her seat by 8 o' clock, the time class starts (no grace period), I think what I've hatched up is a pretty fair plan for fighting lateness fairly. To wit:
-the teacher will record, in order, who comes through the door.
-last person through the door is late.
-in the event of a tie (i.e. a group of people all coming through the door at the same time), they will all be marked as one number, and if that group is last through the door, no one is late (as there will be more of a crush when classtime starts resulting in more ties, everyone is there on time or thereabouts anyway).
-if all students are there when teacher arrives, teacher is late, 3 lates for the teacher=one late being stricken off everyone's own marks.
-standard Otis rules for students: 3 lates equals 1 absence, 3 absences equals fail.
-first person through the door gets nothing special.
This gives incentive for students to work together, as well as the outside chance of making the teacher accountable. Gives the teacher enough rason to mark late without playing favorites (something I've cultivated over the years). Students could possibly sit and wait for someone else and make it a group, but do you really want to take that chance? And, even if, as a student, you are late, there may be someone later than you. But keeping competition down is also key, you don't want grade-grubbing students beating the shit out of each other to get in first or anything like that.
-the teacher will record, in order, who comes through the door.
-last person through the door is late.
-in the event of a tie (i.e. a group of people all coming through the door at the same time), they will all be marked as one number, and if that group is last through the door, no one is late (as there will be more of a crush when classtime starts resulting in more ties, everyone is there on time or thereabouts anyway).
-if all students are there when teacher arrives, teacher is late, 3 lates for the teacher=one late being stricken off everyone's own marks.
-standard Otis rules for students: 3 lates equals 1 absence, 3 absences equals fail.
-first person through the door gets nothing special.
This gives incentive for students to work together, as well as the outside chance of making the teacher accountable. Gives the teacher enough rason to mark late without playing favorites (something I've cultivated over the years). Students could possibly sit and wait for someone else and make it a group, but do you really want to take that chance? And, even if, as a student, you are late, there may be someone later than you. But keeping competition down is also key, you don't want grade-grubbing students beating the shit out of each other to get in first or anything like that.