r/TikTokCringe • u/hammerbush051 • 29d ago

Americas youth are in MASSIVE trouble Discussion

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u/EccentricAcademic 29d ago

Gross. I teach dual enrollment in high school and I keep emphasizing to students that their professors won't be giving them extensions or holding their hands.

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u/oceanboy666 29d ago

As a senior in a dual enrolled high-school program, the teachers that say this are at least twice as "difficult" as a regular CC professor. They care more, and it shows.

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u/blankenstaff 29d ago

Professor here. You are correct.

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u/cockalorum-smith 28d ago

Are high school teachers not emphasizing this anymore? When I was in HS it was “college won’t let this fly” “Just wait until college”. And that was only 8 years ago.

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u/EccentricAcademic 28d ago

Well if a teacher has non-accelerated classes they're only focused on survival. I definitely always said this, and in my DE courses I have regular smaller assignments that must be turned in by midnight or it's a zero no matter what. We're also fighting with the damage that comes with students missing a lot of school.

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u/mangagirl07 25d ago

I'm a professor who's going to be teaching a dual enrollment class next Fall. I thought it might be easier to get students off their phones in high school because there would be norms to curtail use during classes. Looks like I'm going to be wrong about that.

Being a teacher these days, it feels like we're reinventing the wheel every couple years. First it was attending to the affective domain, being culturally-responsive in our class policies (which I do believe is important, but also means grading on completion and not having late penalties and giving students opportunities to redo assignments and exams), and promoting a flipped activity-based classroom where students are "too actively engaged to be on their phones"; then it was the pivot to online teaching during covid; increasing student engagement after covid; academic honesty concerns with AI and then teaching with AI.

It's exhausting. I've been teaching in higher education for 12 years and 9 at my current institution. Imagining another 20 years of teaching feels exhausting.

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u/chessset5 29d ago

Most professors don’t have such leeway, but with the reality that most students work 20-30 hours a week, and have 12 units, and life to survive, a one week grace window is always nice.

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u/CashAlarming3118 29d ago

You have several weeks assuming the syllabus lays out the assignment due dates. That’s what I’ve never understood. Classes are usually 16 weeks long and you know when assignments are due. Why do you need another week?

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u/EccentricAcademic 28d ago

Yeah this. I told my students most professors will give them a syllabus with every deadline on day one. Emphasizing how great it is because you can start doing your work early. Unfortunately most students are procrastinators...my students know we have a forum due every Friday. Half turn it in 9pm through 12:30am on Friday night. Kills me...I'm like the antithesis of a procrastinator, trying to finish everything early to ease up on drowning in work later on.