helping to clean the forum, but also touching on one of my favourite topics - it is Friday, after all...

It might be interesting to see if excuses differ from one part of the world to another, or will students simply always be students.

 

Wishing everyone a great weekend!

Anita

1. One of my students arrived late to turn in his composition about his personal preferences of TV shows. Well, this was his second chance, because unfortunately his grandmother got "very very sick" on the original due date. But my student has so much bad luck that on the second chance - AN LAST ONE- he was being driven by his friend on the way to school and as he was proofreading it, his friend opened the window and it blew away by the blustery wind. Obviously, I did not believe it and there was not second chance.

 

2. One day, another student came to an exam very late arguing that her sweater had  got stuck on the gates of a window and nobody  knows why - not even the FBI, Im sure- but it was hard to be pulled off. I did give her the chance to take the exam, with no extra time though.

 

3.  This is actually a mea culpa, when I was in fourth grade of elementary school, we were supposed to turn in some articles for the bulletin board. I remember I was supposed to write about Santa Rosa De Lima, a Catholic saint. I had the weekend to do it but instead I spent it playing around with my cousin. When monday came and I had to turn it the paper, I didn �t see other way out than "make an excuse" so I told the teacher that my parents had a violent fight at home ( and I kept giving details while my teacher was looking straight into my eyes) and that my father with a knife was chasing my dad around the house so we had to move out to my grandmother �s house. The teacher gave me a big hug and told me everything was going to be okay and that I should not cry ( I wasn �t crying, I just wanted to hear � ok, do it for tomorrow �). Next day, the psychologist of the school sent a notification to my parents for family counciling due to violence being reported in my house...Well, fellows, Guess what happened with my butt when my parents found out about verything :(

 

English Teacher: You didn �t forget to put any of them but English book, did you?

Student: Believe me sir! I really forgot.

 

After one hour...

 

Student: Sir, I forgot to put my History book while I was preparing my schoolbag...

History teacher: ..................

:) :)

 

 

I must say I get more excuses from teacher trainees than students, although students are definitely more creative and fun.

 

I remember one excuse a professor gave my class when I was a student back in high school - for, go figure, losing our tests and making us take them all over again. She said she �d been taking a bath while correcting our tests, and her husband came back from a business trip feeling all romantic, and one thing led to another, and all the ink got smudged and she really couldn �t read anything. Can you believe it????

 

 

One day, one of the girls started to explain the same thing but she forgot that I know her parents personally and they are still living together!!!