Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Anchoring

The student who showed up ten minutes late for her make-up exam should thank the students who were forty minutes late for their make-ups yesterday. Compared to them, ten minutes is practically on-time.

5 comments:

De said...

40 minutes late?!?! Doesn't that essentially count as a forfeit?

Matter-Eater Lad said...

I am far too merciful an instructor.

De said...

You ol' softy :)

Matter-Eater Lad said...

To paraphrase Bill Cosby, there are times when I don't care about justice, I care about QUIET.

Kate said...

To be fair, he only gave them until the original finishing time to finish the exam. So less of a softy than he could have been.