Post #2304929

2026-05-06 18:43 UTC

@liamoc@types.pl I feel your pain. Was an academic for a long time.... My feeling over time became "I'll help, teach and encourage the students who turn up... the ones who don't, too bad". I don't know how academia is in your bit of the world, but the view of student as customer is a big chunk of the problem.

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@liamoc@types.pl 2026-05-06 18:47

@phil444@mastodon.org.uk I do adopt this mentality, but there's a real conscientiousness crisis with the younger generation that makes this problem so much worse than it used to be. I don't know what to do about it.

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@foxy@blahaj.zone 2026-05-06 19:53

@liamoc@types.pl @phil444@mastodon.org.uk @liamoc@types.pl I feel your pain. Was an academic for a long time.... My feeling over time became "I'll help, teach and encourage the students who turn up... the ones who don't, too bad".I wpuld immediately adopt this mindset with a turnout of, say, 80%. When attendance is 10%, though, isn't there a possibility that somewhere along the way the system had students believe that showing up to class does not really matter? If so, I am happy not to waste time on students who clearly choose not to try of their own volition, but I would feel guilty not helping students who might have been tricked into not trying.

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