re: Appealing grade in English at LSU

So you were aware that if you didn't attend class you would fail it, so you didn't attend and now that you failed it you want to appeal? Yeah, you are wasting your time.

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Its preposterous.

Here's your argument.
Its none of their business whether you attend. They are not your boss.

You passed the academics.

Its not a factory where you must clock in or don't get paid.

You get out of school what you can.

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Assuming you ever attended any school, did you ever get an assignment you thought was pointless? Had nothing to do with the subject of the class? Did you get exempt from those as well? This class basically had an "assignment" of simply showing up. Walk in the door at a predetermined time a few times a week for 2 and a half months. He can't do that simple task (re: assignment), yet you think he deserves to pass?

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but I failed my english based purely on attendance.

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Whomever paid for this should put a foot up your lazy arse

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grow up and go to class--the real requires attendance. You should learn this lesson--the world expects you to show up.

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On the contrary, plenty of jobs allow you to work from home or anywhere else (at any hours you want) as long as the work gets done. Not everyone's worth is measured by the length of time their arse is in the office chair, thank god.

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Not everyone's worth is measured by the length of time their arse is in the office chair, thank god.

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It's quite amazing to me how many people don't have this thought process. It's why so many people can't see how salary can be better than hourly I guess. I get paid by my worth to a company, not by the time that I'm working for them. It's just the way I look at life and guess it shapes my thought on this as well. The end goal is value provided. Time is not a variable in the equation in most instances, so why randomly assign it any sort of value out of some sort of "respect and/or lesson in the need to randomly be present in life".

I'm not advocating that the OP deserves get credit. I'm not saying the teacher is wrong if he doesn't change his policy. I'm just saying go talk to the teacher. If they had any sense, they'll likely realize it's a stupid argument not to just push you through with the lowest possible passing grade.

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Requiring attendance in some intro level sociology or algebra class is bullshite.

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Lots of bullshite rules in life. Learning to deal with bullshite is an important lesson.

I don't think he realizes that he probably got the easiest class available and he still fricked it up.

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Requiring attendance in some intro level sociology or algebra class is bullshite. But it makes sense in foreign language classes, and even in some English courses.. as they are often times 100% discussion moreso than lecture.

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I had an intro philosophy teacher that wrote on the syllabus "attendance is not required, however, it will be extremely hard to pass this class without attending it." So I went. First day he highlighted that part of the syllabus and told eveyone this was a great intro philosophy class, and an easy A, but you have to show up. Grades consisted of only a midterm, final, and a short paper.

It was a very interesting class. One of my favorites actually. Very laid back and we just basically discussed different philosophers and life questions.

Beginning the third week of class, once attendance had dropped off, he wrote a word on the board after each class. The midterm exam was one question and it just said something like: what sentence did I write on the board so far?

The looks on the faces of the kids who hadn't been to a single class was priceless. He let us group write our paper in class and he exempted everyone who had been attending the from the final. I don't know what he actually handed out for the final, but I'm sure those few slackers got an interesting exam.

OP reminds me of the "stuffing envelopes lady."

Client hires a bunch of temps at $15 per hour to stuff some envelopes with a mailer. The mailer had a misprint, so the temps are told to come back tomorrow to unstuff the envelopes (at $15 per hour).

This black woman jumps up and says "You hired me to stuff them mother frickers, not unstuff 'em" and proceeds to walk out the door.