Why Attendance In College Is Crap
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Why Attendance In College Is Crap

Welcome to college, where you have less sick days than high school.

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Being by yourself in college is great, especially when you're feeling a little "under the weather" and you don't have your parents there to force you to go. Yes, you can skip freely and most of the time there is no consequence. However, there's always those classes and professors who make it a lot harder than it should be, which begs the question "Why?"

First of all, why do professors fail you after three "unexcused absences?" They should know better than anyone else that things happen, people get sick and honestly, not everyone goes to the doctor everytime they get sick. Why am I paying to go to school, and also being put at risk for being failed because I got sick but didn't go to the doctor? This is ridiculous, and I get what professors are trying to do, which is to "strictly enforce" you to attend class. However, again that's three days for 15 weeks-- I had more skip days in high school.

The thing is I'm not trying to find more ways to skip class or find excuses for missing class. I'm trying to say is why do professors--which we are paying to be there, not them-- threatening to fail us for missing three days of class-- that's three days. What if you live out of state and you're planning on flying home--now you have to work around that classes schedule, plan your flight around it and wait even longer to see the angelic faces of your mother and father.

Attendance policies in college are crap. Things happen and sometimes we have absolutely no control over them. We get sick, alarms don't go off, we have personal issues we're dealing with and now we have to worry about your stupid attendance policy. Finally, most of us are in our early 20's however, what about the parents going to college, or the people who work while they're in school? They have kids who get sick more than we do, and things pop up more in their life so now they have to worry about their kids, their jobs and now failing their class in college.

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