<p>My English teacher told me that we can skip class w/o professors caring in college. Is that true?</p>
<p>I'm currently a junior in high school, and it seriously sucks ass that i get detentions for being late, or get an "unexcused" absence. </p>
<p>I seriously ask myself, what' the point in these, when your grades are good enough already? -_-</p>
<p>Is college annoying strict about absences and tardiness?</p>
<p>Depends on your college, class, and prof. End of story.</p>
<p>You won’t get “detention” but you can lose points and after x classes it can be an automatic failure for the course.</p>
<p>Depends on the prof. You can get it count against your grade for some classes, likewise, some profs don’t care.</p>
<p>If you have a legit excuse to skip (say you are sick) and bring in a note from a doc, you won’t have it counted against you.</p>
<p>It also depends on the size of your classes. In a lecture class of 500 students they will never know but in a smaller setting in may be a problem. Plus you or your parents are paying a great deal of money for those classes so maybe you should attend?</p>
<p>Detention? In college? Bahahahahaa</p>
<p>No one really cares what you do in college, that’s the beauty of higher education system. You pay to get educated, but if you goof off and skip lectures, then say bye-bye to your money and get the bad grade. Although, some professors do have attendance policies like allowing you to only skip 2-3 lectures before negatively affecting your grade or not being able to get an extra credit boost. But most professors don’t care, which can be really nice because some days, you just really need to skip lol.</p>
<p>At every educational level, preschool to grad school, classrooms become communities. Everyone is being educated by each other. Avoidable absences and tardiness is disrespecting yourself, your classmates, and the teacher.</p>
<p>Some things I was told about college that trued not to be true:</p>
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<li>Professors don’t take attendance.</li>
<li>Participation never counts for a grade.</li>
<li>There are never substitutes in college.</li>
</ol>
<p>All ended up being not true. I only had class canceled once. The other times, I had substitutes. The majority of my classes took attendance. The one that didn’t had a participation grade for 20% of the grade, so basically required it anyways.</p>
<p>Obviously it depends on the professor, but at my college, taking attendance is the norm.</p>
<p>^ on the flip side of this, I have only had one sub (only because my prof got stuck overseas when a certain volcano decided to spew).</p>
<p>^^ I’ve never had a sub. Truly, very few of my profs take attendance. “Participation” is usually a grade but “participation” varies wildly by prof. </p>
<p>So again. Depends on prof, school, and class.</p>
<p>The smaller the class the more likely they care. If there are consequences for absences/tardies, it will probably be in the syllabus, so read that.</p>
<p>There a big difference between the professor caring, and the professor directly reflecting your attendance in your grade. The vast majority of classes will not have your attendance reflected in your grade, but the professor will notice who’s there and who participates and they will often care.</p>
<p>It depends. I have to attend labs and sometimes discussions since they take attendance there and in some classes, attending discussion is about 10% of your grade, and can make the difference between an A and a B, but as for lectures, I can choose to skip them if I want to. My classes are huge, so the professor never notices if I’m gone or not. For smaller classes, they will most likely care. I took an introductory drama class last quarter, and due to the small class size and the activities we did in class each week, attendance was mandatory.</p>
<p>some larger classes use clickers for attendance. generally you get a feel if you can skip a class or not, after the first few classes.</p>
<p>And of course, never ever miss the first day of a class. Ever. EVER. Odds are you will get dropped from it.</p>
<p>Some colleges allow your professor to drop you from the class if you miss X number of days in Y period of time. Your professor will probably outline this in the syllabus if this is the case.</p>
<p>And if you find yourself struggling and you’re hoping to plead your case to the professor stop and think about how many classes you’ve missed. If you only show up for tests your professor isn’t going to do you any favors, but if you attended class, asked questions, turned in assignments…they may be more willing to help you out.</p>
<p>Generally, smaller classes mean yes to attend. This could be in terms of you can’t miss more than x number of classes or you drop a letter grade OR you lose participation points which goes towards your final grade. </p>
<p>My big lecture classes never cared for absences but did have a rule against not coming to class if you will be more than 5 minutes late because it disrupts the class.</p>
<p>It’s basically on you. My econ professor always told us if we don’t want to be there, not to show up, and it didn’t really matter. On the other hand, another class I took had sign in sheets and attendance was 10% of the grade. Even if there was a quiz that day, and you took the quiz and had proof obviously that you were there, if you weren’t on the sign in sheet you were marked absent (the sign in sheet was passed around towards the end of class, where we took quizzes at the start). Both were relatively large lecture halls classes.</p>
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<p>Just showing how much it varies from college to college and professor to professor… My university doesn’t do this. No one cares if you miss the first class. The only reason you’ll get dropped is because you didn’t meet the pre-reqs for the class. Even then, I know some people who never got dropped from classes like they were supposed to. The professor just never checked for pre-reqs.</p>
<p>I’ve only had a few classes that count attendance, and they’ve been smaller classes. As for my larger classes, it isn’t a big deal if you come in 5 minutes late as long as you’re not obnoxious. However, in one of my classes, a kid showed up to lecture 20 minutes late, and the professor said, “you are twenty minutes late. that is outrageous!”</p>