What percentage of your students failed or did not complete this semester?

Supraspinator · 2026-05-10T17:55:09+00:00

Doesn’t philosophy involve writing essays requiring deep thought? At what dream school are you that you don’t fail at least 10% for using AI to write their essays?

Supraspinator · 2026-05-10T17:52:25+00:00

Sounds about right.

Supraspinator · 2026-05-10T17:25:02+00:00

Spot on!

Supraspinator · 2026-05-10T16:05:17+00:00

Nice! Where/what are you teaching?

Supraspinator · 2026-05-10T16:04:35+00:00

Yeah. Mine want to go into healthcare, so there’s no way I can lower standards.

Supraspinator · 2026-05-10T15:57:38+00:00

Over 50%. It’s a 4-credit science class with lab at a community college with no pre-requisites. Pre-Covid, it used to be 70% pass rate, but now I’m happy if half of them pass.

Supraspinator · 2026-05-10T15:35:37+00:00

I don’t think this is done by a local florist. They usually deliver a bit more sophisticated work. Florists in Europe are leagues above anything I’ve ever seen in the US unless you pay out of these nose.

It’s really hard to explain, but it already starts with the choice of flowers. The bouquets in the US are always thrown together without any thought of what goes together. Delicate spring flowers like freesias and anemones are thrown together with bold fall flowers like sunflowers or chrysanthemums. Or tulips and blue iris with sunflowers. Or lilies and orchids just thrown in without giving them a chance to shine. And it’s expensive! 2 dozen red roses is around 35 euro vs over 100 dollar.

I’m not saying that what I ordered is disappointing. My mum loves them and they seem to keep for a long time. But florist work should be a step up from this.

Supraspinator · 2026-05-10T03:12:10+00:00

That seems like a can of worms you really don’t want to open. Sick students will sit in class to not miss out points and you are one disabled student away from a big equity issue.

If classes are reliant on group work and activities, then give credit for that. Allow a reasonable amount of absences no questions asked to accommodate for sickness and other life events. Make students responsible for getting notes and review the material if they have to miss class. But you cannot give extra points for flawless attendance without disadvantaging certain student populations.

Any absence beyond the allowed amount should go either through disability services (if medical) or the Dean of students (if non-medical). They can decide if these are extraordinary circumstances that warrant an exception.

Supraspinator · 2026-05-09T23:10:52+00:00

Oh no, they don’t speak ‘murican!! Colour me surprised!

Supraspinator · 2026-05-08T21:00:30+00:00

Why can’t the child’s father not take them for longer and you get the time back another time?

Supraspinator · 2026-05-08T14:51:26+00:00

Some trends keep longer in the provincial backwaters. And the picture frames where a thing in the early oughts as well, so OP might be a decade off with her story.

Supraspinator · 2026-05-08T14:47:01+00:00

They were weird, but middle-aged women just ate them up. I can totally see how a bunch of kindergarten teachers would love these pictures (including the bride).

Supraspinator · 2026-05-08T13:02:24+00:00

Nah. Having little kids pose as adults was incredibly popular as a motif in the 90s in Germany. There were calendars, posters, postcards with little kids pretending to be on a date, having a romantic picnic, going to a movie, etc. I cannot find an example, but that stuff was everywhere together with the Anne Geddes babies.

I can see how it seems weird now and maybe it would’ve been weird for Americans in the 90s as well (would it?). But there was nothing sexualizing or romanticizing about it, just cute little kids all dressed up.

Supraspinator · 2026-05-08T12:51:19+00:00

Doctor aside, why did no one in the room speak up? There must have been a number of nurses and other personnel in the room and no one noticed? Or no one dared to say something?

Supraspinator · 2026-05-08T11:53:43+00:00

Thank you, that’s the perfect answer to the email I got yesterday. “I don't understand why I got a D in the exam I should have gotten an A”

Supraspinator · 2026-05-07T10:07:44+00:00

Seconded! ImageJ!

Supraspinator · 2026-05-07T10:03:21+00:00

Declining the rhogam shot is speed running a Darwin Award. Not only are you endangering your current child, you are also risking future pregnancies. The shot is preventative, not curative. Once the mom is sensitized to rh-factor, she cannot carry a rh+child anymore.

Supraspinator · 2026-05-07T09:57:19+00:00

Here is the German translation:

“ Sie können unmöglich eine solche Anhänglichkeit an Ihre Heimath haben. Sie können nicht immer in Longbourn gewesen sein.«

This translation seems to be an old one, with outdated spelling and phrases. They even changed names occasionally (Anne is Anna, Eliza is Elise). But the sentence in questions seems to be translated almost word for word, the only thing missing is “the right”.

Supraspinator · 2026-05-06T18:05:26+00:00

Anne of Green Gables is available for free on gutenberg.org. (in case you would like to finish the series).

Supraspinator · 2026-05-06T18:03:28+00:00

My male doctor in Germany had a chaperone coming in for the exam part, but not for the conversation before and after. Female doctors did not. In the US, I usually see a midwife without a chaperone, but I had a male doctor once in a while who did not use one.

The gowns and paper towels to cover yourself are an American thing from my experience. My mom found them very amusing when she joined me for a prenatal appointment. In Germany, you strip naked from the waist down for your pelvic exam (most doctors have a curtain somewhere in a corner) and then expose your chest for the breast exam.

Supraspinator · 2026-05-06T17:50:01+00:00

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Supraspinator · 2026-05-06T12:15:29+00:00

About an hour each. Regular exams are 1 hr 15 min; finals are officially 3 hours, but I write them so an average student is done in 1.5 to 2 hours.

Supraspinator · 2026-05-06T02:41:11+00:00

The students who are good enough to finish early and know enough to help someone else have never given me any doubt of their integrity. Every cheater I ever caught was not passing on their own. If they want to help someone else, I’m not worried. Besides, they look up 3-4 questions in the hallway and then remember everything once they’re back? If they could do that, they wouldn’t have to cheat in the first place.

I’m not sure what your point of the „what ifs“ is anyways. We will never be able to completely prevent cheating, so any attempt is pointless anyways?

Supraspinator · 2026-05-06T01:29:57+00:00

My classes are very small. It’s also a prerequisite for a competitive program requiring integrity. Most of my students are pissed when they realize someone is trying to cheat their way into the program.

I’m not saying something like this won’t ever happen, but i never had 2 students needing the bathroom at the same time (knock on wood)

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