First day of classes, student already lying to me

[emilyj]

^o)

It might have been better if she didn't email me 5 minutes after her first email and totally call herself out on the lie.

But seriously? It was way too easy to see that she was lying. Why did she think this was a good idea at all???

[laurenpetro]

what do have to lie about on the first day of school?

and seriously, you've started already?? grace doesn't go back until 9/7. you poor thing.

[IIOY]

Well, you already know how I feel about entitled students these days. Vent away!

[pixy0stix]

What is there to lie about on the first day?

[emilyj]

Lauren, I'm at a college - but most of the elementary/high schools down in this region have already gone back. The schools in Atlanta went back on 8/6.

She emailed me and said her friend told her I called her name during role in class this morning, and she was confused because she thought she was in a different section, so she wanted to come to my office and get the syllabus and go over it with me because she would rather be in my class.

The only problem is I wasn't there this morning - my department head covered for me - and her name isn't on the class list. So there's absolutely no way I, or my department head, could have called her name this morning.

When she emailed me back, she said she wanted to clarify that she needed to be in my section, and not the one she is currently in, so she could avoid having to take a harder class.

Um, what?

[Deleted]

Umm. so she thought she could lie her way into your section basically, and when she realized that seemed iffy she tried to say she wants your class because it will be easier?

lol. have fun with her!

[emilyj]

My class is full. It's in a lab, so I couldn't add her even if I wanted to. She's SOL with me.

[meshaliuknits]

Wants to be in an easier section? That'll put you in the prof's good graces.

[llama]

Wow. The whole exchange makes no sense and she must really not understand how the process works if she thought she could get away with talking her way into a full class that way.

My wife is a PhD student teaching her first course as an associate professor this summer and we have daily conversations about how inept her students are. There are some good ones, too, but damn. Her instructor of record stories already trump her TA stories by far, so it's going to be an exciting lifetime of these incidents I'm sure.

[caden]

This makes me weep for our future.

[Deleted]

Emily I love your dumb student stories. I'm sad for you that you have them, but still.

[aurora]

Sometimes teaching is easier when you close your eyes, cover your ears, sing as loud as you can, and pretend it isn't happening.

That was a pretty gutsy move on her part, though!

[emilyj]

I want to start a blog. I really do.

But I also want tenure, so I don't.

[sunshine608]

That's when I get the majority of my "stories".

I busted two students last semester for lying during the first week of classes so I wouldn't report them as no show ( and they keep their financial aid).

One lie involved a fake jury duty certificate that was clearly printed out using a word template and a bad watermark.
The other was a misspelled doctor's note.

So far nothing this year *knocks on wood*