LATE HATE

Sorry this is getting up so late....I just got lazy today. This week is a WILD CARD. As the Busto explains we won't do this too much.

My HATE for this week is: Mandatory Attendance in Class

I hate attending classes because I am forced to attend them. What is the point of mandatory attendance? I look at it as a free open market that should not be altered by controlling forces such as mandatory attendance rules. Let me exlpain:

Different people feel differently about different classes and different people learn differently in different classes. There are some classes that I don't have to read for and understand most everything, and other classes I read 3 times and still have no idea what the hell is going on. This goes for attendance too.

If a person does not want to go to class he/she shouldn't have to go to class. There are always choices as to why they may not want to go, and there are consequences. For some people the consequences are not outweighed by the benefit of not attending so they don't attend, others the balance shifts the other way so they do go. But this is my point, let the people decide.

If someone does not go to class they are not going to hear the class lecture, discussion, and questions that my be brought up. That is their loss and they know this ahead of time. Sometimes though the material is so redundant, boring, or non-informative that these people not attending will not miss anything. IT IS THEIR CHOICE....LET THEM MAKE IT.

Some might argue that mandatory attendance is to make sure everyone has a decent shot of passing. WHO CARES!!! If they don't ever go to class, don't know the material, don't know what the prof wants, and then proceeds to fail, it is the choice they made. They knew that going into the test.

On the other hand there are people like my best friend back home that is so smart that he didn't attend any classes in his advanced math class (he was a math major) and aced the test; in addition, he had made a deal with the prof (since he hadn't done any of the homework) that if he aced it he would pass the class, if not he would fail. Voila, as I already said he aced it so he passed.

There are some classes that people will sleep through (I do this, although less and less this year). How is mandatory attendance helping here? Now you just have a body in the class that might occasionally snore, instead of an empty chair. THEY END UP BEING THE SAME THING. Furthermore, if a prof wants people attend all they have to do is MAKE THE FRIGGIN CLASS MORE INTERESTING. I don't want to have to listen to some monotone voice read back to me what is on the page of the text of the assigned reading. If I didn't read it the first time, why would I want to listen to it read back to me a second time???? (Or just listen/read it a second time for all of those overachievers that actually do the reading assignments).

It just isn't necessary for everyone to attend class. It is a Shitty rule that I HATE.

Let the people make their own decisions. If they fail they fail, if they miss out on interesting discussion they miss out, if they Ace the test write a harder test. Besides most people don't even listen anyways they are busy surfing the net or playing online poker in class anyways. Hell last year I watched part of the NCAA basketball tourney in class.

Mandatory attendance is a stupid ass rule that should be abolished, along with Arbusto, he too should be abolished.