By LimeyGoodteeth - 24/05/2011 21:34 - United Kingdom

Today, I refused to let two students into class because they were 15 minutes late. It turns out they were late because they had gone to buy me a birthday cake. FML
I agree, your life sucks 13 851
You deserved it 73 324

LimeyGoodteeth tells us more.

I am the original poster. It was an adult ESOL class. School policy - strictly adhered to - is that students can't be admitted if they are more than 5 minutes late and all students know this. Lateness is disruptive and disrespectful to other students. We all eventually had the cake later anyway!

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emeralz1 0

that's why u always ask before u act..

That's what my cousin does. She shows up really late but she always has food for the teacher and says she was buying him food. Works like a charm. She is his favorite student.

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That is not white frosting, and it is going to taste a tad salty.

ral2231996 0

well..............happy birthday then

Ugh, I really hate that "screw you, you were late" rule. I was one of the most on-time students you will ever meet, and I hated being punished for my very occasional tardiness. I was once marked as late because I got up to sharpen my pencil right when the bell rang--and I had been sitting in class working on something for the teacher for 20 minutes before the bell! I don't plan on ever banning a student from my classroom for occasional tardiness. (Chronic tardiness will be handled on a case-by-case basis.) I'm more of the "find a classmate to fill you in on what you missed, because I won't (unless you have a doctor's note/note from another teacher)" type. If I end up teaching college (a possibility, with my degree), things will be handled on a case-by-case basis, but I still won't ban people from my classroom for tardiness. For other things, sure, but not for tardiness. You don't know what happened, and they're really just screwing themselves by being late.

Seriously? They were only 15 minutes late. Professors let people come into the class whatever time the student shows up. Life happens yeah?

kpadgett045 0

ooohhhh your one of those kind of teachers huh!?!?! * face palm *

They should have bought the cake earlier instead of right before class. Doing something nice doesn't make up for being late, especially if tardiness still could have been avoided.

(sorry for spelling mistakes , I am french). I am student but I understand that refuse two students late if that is chronic latecomer . In my high school , there was a girl ,Daphné , that arrived late morning and afternoon injustified delay of course. the teacher should interrupted himself during that she install and she disturb a class . If this is first lateness . Of cours , it's severe however. (In france , the chronics latecomers are in detention - often the afternoon wednesday or morning saturday - we not course normally - in high school and junior high school in university , the teachers are indifferend except , sometimes , some tongues-lashing)

I think you were right not to let them in OP. As a student, I hate people arriving late and disturbing everybody else that arrived when they were supposed to. The students should have gone to get the cake earlier, at a time that meant they wouldn't miss or be late for class. And #61, what do you mean, they were "only 15 minutes late"? That's a quarter of the lesson if it was only an hour long, you can miss a lot in that time! Especially as in most classes you need to be there for the start to understand everything that follows - teachers do things in a particular order for a reason.