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[batboybites]

People who have advised high school yearbook are not lying: it is very stressful

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[glamazonwarrior]

I work in technical writing. Sometimes, deadlines can be moved (usually when the delays have been on the client's end). I still have worked late to meet deadlines. Leaving work after midnight late.

Relatedly, if they were working on a paper for a college class, and had technical issues (failing to click Save, computer exploding...) they wouldn't get a perfect grade for a late paper. They'd be expected to find alternative equipment and get the job done.

So, yes, you are justified.

But I'm also not a teacher, so your mileage may vary.

[psychopeg]

Seconding the yes, but as a teacher. :)

[batboybites]

I thought so....it's just all the whining/excuse-making sometimes still gives me second thoughts sometimes!

[postmaterialism]

they need someone to help them develop a sense of personal accountability and pride in their work, so I think you are doing the right thing.

[helmsing]

You're assuming your students understand what it means to be accountable...hahahaha. It only magnifies 20 fold when teaching college students (mine who plan to be teachers). Here's a real conversation

[psychopeg]

Please tell me you punched the intern.

:(

I've been dealing with a colleague who keeps bitching about how she has to actually explain to 9th graders how to do a five-paragraph essay. "It's not HARD," she says. No SHIT it's not HARD, I think, and I say, "Well, no... but they have never done it before." COME ON.

[earth_nomad]

welcome to the real world kiddies.

helping train them to be halfway adult? (or at least aware of what it means. a foreshadowing taste?)
you are totally correct