# Thank God for anonymous class surveys...the offical "bitch about classes" thread **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 26, 2010, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-god-for-anonymous-class-surveys-the-offical-bitch-about-classes-thread/537434 "2010-04-26T19:03:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![LeeshaJoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@LeeshaJoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LeeshaJoy)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2010, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-god-for-anonymous-class-surveys-the-offical-bitch-about-classes-thread/537434/41 "2010-05-01T06:15:00Z")
> [@digs](#): > > I’ve taken to having my students sign a copy of the class policies… > and sometimes I slip a line in like “I promise to bring the instructor Twizzlers at least once per semester”. I figure if they sign it they might just read it, and I can also wave it in their face… Taking a page out of [Van Halen’s](http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/vanhalen.asp) book, eh? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2010, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-god-for-anonymous-class-surveys-the-offical-bitch-about-classes-thread/537434/42 "2010-05-01T07:33:19Z")
> [@digs](#): > > Because I get the “How commmme you graded me down?” from someone at least once a year, including the kid who said “Hey, no one told ME I had to show up!” Oh lord, I had one of those this semester. And I do a face to face “grade check” about 2/3rds of the way through the semester, just to prevent end of semester sticker shock and to give every student EVERY opportunity (in case having an “easy A” class eludes some of them), this one student, upon seeing the C, was shocked to find out that tardies and absences counted (even though it says that in two places on the syllabus). Actually rolled his/her eyes at the notion that showing up and on time was part of the grade. Sigh… And then STILL continued to miss classes and was the only one who’d claimed that I didn’t explain the finals class schedule well enough for him/her to understand. All of the other 23 students got it and it wasn’t more complicated than "the last class consists of X+1 hours instead of the normal X hours, ergo you must attend the whole finals class to get credit for the whole thing. I’d been telling the class that (and finals schedules are posted in the main class listings book) for three weeks prior to finals. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-god-for-anonymous-class-surveys-the-offical-bitch-about-classes-thread/537434.md?page=2)