Today, one of my students, a junior in a freshman class, interupted me to tell me that I was the reason he was doing poorly in class. His rationale was that since I did not give him a handout with the assignments listed, that he never knew when his assignments were due.
Of course, I reminded him that I either put the assignment on the board, or it is projected on the screen. Our school also gives the students an assignment notebook, which I always remind the students to write the assignment in. And, in addition, there is a web site for our class, that listed all the assignments, through the end of the school year.
After this explanation, with a straight face, he said, "Mr. Miller, I don't use the Internet, except for funny YouTube videos!"
Flabbergasted, I could only say that it looked like his grade was going to be the one that made the other student's grades look better!
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