Professor tries to drop 22-year-old college senior from class based on one absence, student claps back with receipts: 'Will you please explain the policy to my professor?'

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Nov 21, 2024 8:00 AM EST

There is nothing like proving an authority figure wrong! Here, we have a college professor who has probably been tenured for so long that he thinks he can get away with just about anything. That's why this college senior felt compelled to call him out on his nonsense.

The senior was in his final semester before graduating and needed to complete this specific course for his major despite knowing that the professor was notoriously unkind and unfair. After the student got sick and had to miss the first class, he arrived to the second class that week and explained what happened to the professor. Of course, the professor was not sympathetic and instead informed the student that he was planning on dropping him from the course due to this one absence.

Rather than let his professor walk all over him, the senior turned to the student handbook to gather receipts. Keep scrolling below to see what happened when his professor discovered that he could not, in fact, kick the kid out of his class. For more stories like this, check out this post about a teenager's petty revenge on their cousin.

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    When the over-zealous professor got corrected on his university's policy
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    About 8 years ago, I was in my final semester of college & only had one more class left to take that was required for my major (the rest were just random electives to fulfill the minimum unit requirements to graduate).
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    I'd noticed the name of the professor I was assigned to & instantly felt dread. I'd had him during my freshman year for another required course, and let's just say, he wasn't a pleasant
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    human being. Constantly on a power trip, would dock a percentage of your grade for every class missed or were late for, and had no problem yelling/talking down to you in front of the entire class.
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    I ended up getting sick during the beginning of the semester, so I had to miss his first class. Since it met twice a week, I made sure to show up to the Thursday class.
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    The professor gave me a look when I walked in, so I (re)introduced myself & explained I'd missed the Tuesday class b/c I'd been sick, thinking that was the end of it. Nope. He
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    called me over after the class got dismissed, and in a sinisterly delighted way, told me that since I missed his first class, on the first week, that he was allowed to drop me & that I would "have to take the class next semester, sorry."
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    The university policy was that if you missed 50% of class meetings during the first two weeks, the professor could drop you from the course (assuming they cared enough to take attendance). So if a class met four times in the first two weeks,
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    and you missed two of them, you could get involuntarily dropped. I went straight to our department's building & there was an admin sitting there, right by the elevator. I told her what the situation was, basically repeating my understanding of the policy to
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    her. She nodded & said that was correct. Right then, the elevator door opened & my professor walked up. I said, in a sinisterly delighted way, "Will you please explain the policy to my professor? I don't think he's very familiar with it."
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    The look on the professor's face still makes me chuckle to this day, and I ended up passing his class w/ a B.
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    LateToCollecting I'm a professor. I can only speak from my own [USA] experience, but I just don't care if someone misses day 1:
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    . The first week or two, depending on the semester, is all at-will add/drop anyway.
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    . I'm mostly just going over the syllabus because I'm required to.
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    • I view it as my students are paying me to train them for their careers in my field, from the basis of me (and each of their other profs in my department) being world-level experts within our laser-narrow discipline focus.
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    • University students are old enough to get drafted and fight and di for their country, so I'll respect their choice to flush their tuition money down the drain if they choose to miss class.
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    • If one of my students is earnestly struggling or ill, I can move heaven and earth to help that student through successfully. Life is hard enough without having to fight against the professors ostensibly there to help guide you.
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    • I was raised to treat people the way I want to be treated.
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    ● Mentoring my students is an absolute joy and privilege. Each one I coach into a great career start propels me for weeks when they tell me the job offer!
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    Inevitable-Win2... And he had no chance to do anything shady without being accused of retaliation. Nice!
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    onerell Prestigious-Tip... I had an ROTC instructor change the schedule of his class. I was getting a degree in nursing, so my schedule was extremely tight because of clinical hours. I couldn't make it to his class with the new schedule. He informed me too bad, figure it out.
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    I went to the school admin..I forgot their title..and explained my situation. He simply said, "he cant do that" and he would take care of it. Class was returned to its original schedule and that instructor gave me stink eye the entire semester.
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