Looking for input... does this offend anyone else?

[PanzerIV]

I am just not seeing as how this could be viewed offensively.

 

[FoBoT]

i don't get it

 

[Ikonomi]

I'd like to know what the deal is with the "ASSessment". Professor just have a quirky sense of humor?

 

[purepolly]

Originally posted by: PricklyPete

Originally posted by: purepolly
The e-mail is straight from the prof, with the final being moved IN three days.



I'm not sure, but I think the prof is out to get a jewish classmate who has already missed classes, and needed to reschedule the last round of exams due to the last jewish holiday (whatever that was). It really annoys me in part because for all the talk of "cultural sensitivity" nursing professors throw to the wind - precious little is being shown now.

It sounds like you are reading this email from a biased perspective...a perspective where you already feel like the professor does not appreciate some of this students religious beliefs.

Just reading this ourselves...with no understanding of your perspective...the email reads very normally and I would think it would offend very few.

As a matter of fact, I think you are being way too sensitive if this offends you.

You might possibly be right - but I'm not so sure. Three of us missed the last exam with this prof for various reasons - 2 of us had the same standard N-clex style multiple choice questions for the makeup exam as the rest of the class. My jewish classmate had fill in questions on her exam. It just doesn't sit right somehow, and since this is a nursing program - not an engineering program - you can't question or discuss any concerns with the profs. Nursing is an entirely different world acedemically.

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: PanzerIV
I am just not seeing as how this could be viewed offensively.

 

[purepolly]

Originally posted by: dullard

Originally posted by: purepolly
Unfortunately, this is an accelerated nursing program (BSN is 16 months). That e-mail probably represents 1 or 2 people flunking the exam and thereby being booted out of the program

They still have 12 days to study for that one exam. If a student will flunk with 12 days preparation, but pass with 15 days, then he/she isn't a very good students to begn with. They should have been studying all along and not needed 15 full days to be able to pass a test. Or is there more to this story that we don't know?

Also notice: if those one or two students have a problem with taking it on Wed, then the professor ASKED to be contacted to fix the problem. How can they still be bothered by the professor doing all of this for them?

 

[Chiboy]

NO!

 

[purepolly]

Originally posted by: purepolly

Originally posted by: dullard

Originally posted by: purepolly

Unfortunately, this is an accelerated nursing program (BSN is 16 months). That e-mail probably represents 1 or 2 people flunking the exam and thereby being booted out of the program

They still have 12 days to study for that one exam. If a student will flunk with 12 days preparation, but pass with 15 days, then he/she isn't a very good students to begn with. They should have been studying all along and not needed 15 full days to be able to pass a test. Or is there more to this story that we don't know?



Also notice: if those one or two students have a problem with taking it on Wed, then the professor ASKED to be contacted to fix the problem. How can they still be bothered by the professor doing all of this for them?

Yep, that all sounds very reasonable on the surface. But it works out to studying for 4 cumulative exams in 12 day - and this includes reading, assimilating and learning the final third of the material for each of those classes - for example that means for the finals we have to know an additional 40 new chapters of material. For those of you that have taken A&P that means roughly reading and learning 40 chapters of new A&P. That's a daunting and near impossible task for that timeframe. AND if you don't have at least a 75 average in each class for the semester - you are out of the program.

 

[dullard]

Originally posted by: purepolly
Yep, that all sounds very reasonable on the surface. But it works out to studying for 4 cumulative exams in 12 day - and this includes reading, assimilating and learning the final third of the material for each of those classes - for example that means for the finals we have to know an additional 40 new chapters of material. For those of you that have taken A&P that means roughly reading and learning 40 chapters of new A&P. That's a daunting and near impossible task for that timeframe. AND if you don't have at least a 75 average in each class for the semester - you are out of the program.

Now I'm confused. The email read to me that only one final is moved to Wed, while the others are still on Friday the 8th and on Monday the 10th. The student therefore must still cover the same total material in the same amount of time (from now until Monday the 10th). The only difference is the student will study for Med Surg 2042 first and then Pedi later (instead of the other way around).

Or did I read the email wrong? Your reply to me made it sound like all 3 are moved up to Wed.

I know a lot of nurses who have been screwed by professors. For example in one class (the final class needed to become an RN), the professor automatically fails all LPNs (no possibility of ever passing no matter how well you do on the tests/reports). If you didn't already have an LPN you were passed automatically. Basically after taking that class 2 or 3 times, all the LPNs must leave the school and find another one.

Your example just doesn't seem very extreme.

 

[Corporate Thug]

i see nothing offensive here

 

[thomsbrain]

how else is he gonna say it? sheesh!

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

Originally posted by: dullard

Now I'm confused. The email read to me that only one final is moved to Wed, while the others are still on Friday the 8th and on Monday the 10th. The student therefore must still cover the same total material in the same amount of time (from now until Monday the 10th). The only difference is the student will study for Med Surg 2042 first and then Pedi later (instead of the other way around).

Or did I read the email wrong?

Excellent point.

In law school, we ordinarily had 4 finals at the end of each semester, and all were not only cumulative of the entire semester, there were no midterms, so the final represented your entire grade. Normally the tests were 3 hours long. They were scheduled independent of one another, so the luck of the draw might make your exam schedule extremely burdensome (e.g., a test each day, three days in a row).

I don't doubt that this nursing program is very tough, but law school was no cakewalk either. It seems to me that the religious-accomodated schedule is arguably easier, in that it provides at least a day of concentrated study time between each test.

 

[purepolly]

Thanks for everyone's input. It appears I've been sitting in this nursing stuff too long and I'm loosing perspective.

 

[zixxer]

If you can't take the test on the scheduled day for whatever reason; you should have to take it early imo. That's how all my prof's do it.