‘Only 3-5 students still showed up’: Formidable college professors try to snap at student by making attendance non-mandatory, lose 90% of their class

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  • If you ever went to college or know some college kids, then you know the kind of quick wit they give off. They don't have time for your tomfoolery, especially since they're about to be in massive debt (at least in the US…). They are going to do what they gotta do and they don't care if you think they should do it any other way. 

    For instance, if you're a mean professor who treats their students like they're gum on the bottom of their shoes, then guess what? Those students will peace out. It's their education, they don't care what you think. They'll do with it however they please. Like this college course. The professor left it to the class' two assistants to teach.  Already point 1 for annoying. Then, these two assistants turned out to be the worst and talked down to all their students. When one student asked about the attendance sheet, they seemed annoyed themselves and told him there was one and looked at him like “How dare he even ask!” 

    So, as you might've guessed, most of the students got up and left mid-class and never returned. The best part? Since attendance wasn't mandatory, most of them still passed the class! 

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    "Apparently, professors were quite irrate at how students skipped boring/useless courses if given the opportunity..."
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    Attendance isn't mandatory? Ok M Hello everyone, I'm on mobile so formatting isn't great, also English isn't my first language. Regardless, here goes my story. Background: I went to university in Germany. A part of my curriculum were courses in sociology and philosophy. A lot of those were marked down as "successfully attended" without getting graded.
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    Usually you proved attendance with a list you signed everytime. The characters: I and Angry: the two professor's assistens, who were probably forced to teach the course • Me the roughly 100 other students
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    The situation: and Angry had to teach a course about important figures in sociology. It was already a dry topic, but the real issue was their behaviour. When talked, you could hear the hate drip from her every word. When Angry talked, it felt like getting yelled at. We hated just being there, but we needed to complete the course.
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    The first two times, like usual, the list would go round, and we wrote down our names, student id, and email. The third time however the lecture was almost over and the list hasn't gotten to me yet. So I raised my hand and asked about it. Me: Excuse me, the list didn't get around to us yet. Angry, very annoyed at the interruption: What list?
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    Me: The one for attendance. Angry: That wasn't an attendance list. We needed your names and email to send out the assignment to complete the course. The assignment was just a three page essay about a randomly selected sociologist. Nothing you couldn't do with just google.
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    Me: So, there isn't a mandatory attendance? Angry: No. I think you can all see where this is going. Malicious Compliance: I looked at my buddies, they shrugged, and we just up and left. What I didn't see coming was, how almost everyone else saw this as their cue to leave as well. I will never forget the dumbfounded faces of and Angry.
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    Aftermath: A while later we got our assignments, finished them, and sent them in, thus successfully completing the course. For the rest of the semester only 3-5 students still showed up so 1 and Angry had to teach a practically empty class room that could fit around 200 people.
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    [Edit 2] a comment reminded me of a detail I forgot to mention. The following year, this course among several others that students just never frequented were changed from "lectures" to "seminars", which formally allowed to enforce attendance. Apparently professors were quite irrate at how students. skipped boring/useless courses if given the opportunity
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    szu • 1d ago You know i bet they're annoyed at those who did turn up. Because having free time is better.. 1.3K Reply
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    Newbosterone · 1d ago I had a prof who told this story approvingly. In one of his other sections, the students each kicked in $10, and hired one of his grad students to sit in the lecture and take notes. The students got complete notes taken by someone who already understood the material, the grad student made beer money and he and his TA could explain things during office hours from the notes. 169 169 Reply
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    The_Username_Is_Beer • 1d ago Had a similar experience at university but with Economics, but due to the fact that the teacher was super boring and seemed to no wanting to be there. From 100+ students, I think at the end of semester less than 10 were still in attendance. 174 Reply
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    feyrath . 1d ago I had a course like that. History of computer science. Professor read directly out of his own textbook. Boring, droning voice. Figured out what chapters were mandatory and skipped the rest of the year. As did everyone else. I think the professor stopped attending too. 204 Reply
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    1d ago I'm kind of that there was a course just about important figures in sociology. I minored in sociology purely because I had great professors and because almost all the classes were extremely fascinating, but that one sounds like a snoozer. I took three classes just because they were taught by one specific professor who was really good at making the classes interesting. ↑ 34 Reply
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    • CaptainBaoBao 1d ago I had a social psycho course like this. the teacher was a cool guy and he didn't care teaching to 400 students who was not interested. So he told that all was in the syllabus (which was thick but easy to read) and the courses went to a little classroom for the 10 or so who attend. the exam was a multiple choices questionnaire, pretty easy if you have actually read the syllabus two times. we had 3 hours to complete it. It took me 45 minutes to do mine and the girl beside me
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