Does it annoy college instructors when?

Question

You're late for class
you hand in late assignments
you miss class more than once?

what does it say to instructors? How does it make them feel?

Answer 1

I would imagine that if they care about the person that is late, etc. and the future of that person that it would annoy them. If they don't give a hairy rats butt then they are probably ho hum about it all.
I am sure it says, "This person doesn't care about their education".
I imagine it makes them feel as though the person is wasting, or trying to waste, the instructors time.
But isn't the better question for the late one themselves:
Why would I waste my time in a class that I am not serious about?
OR
Why am I not taking my education seriously?

Answer 2

College instructors get annoyed when you're late for class because it's an irritating disruption/distraction. Late papers will annoy them if they don't have a late policy in place (such as taking off points), but really, a late paper is going to affect you more than them. Same goes for missing class more than once.

Answer 3

It depends on the instructor. Some professors are prima donnas that think they are too good for everyone and know more than anyone. These people think they are the most important person in their universe and will be very offended at any sign of disrespect. Other professors have the opinion that since you pay for your education you can afford to fail class if you want. You need to decide which one of those categories your professor fits in. Also, you need to decide if being late, skipping class, and not turning in homework is the best route to take in college. You have to pay for your loans whether or not you graduate.

Answer 4

Place yourself in the instructor’s shoes and those of the attendees whose genuine intentions are to benefit from the course.

- Late for a Class.

Education is generally non-profit motivated. Instructors whose teaching qualifications usually entitle them to work in the related professions where they can often earn more. Flip the issue on its head, should students be so privileged as to be imparted skills that could take them through life.

A habitually late person in class is a habitually late person that translates into a habitually late worker. Shoppers would turn away from shops that took their time to service, just because the sales person decides to come in at any other time than the appointed time.

Students whose genuine intention to learn gives their time to the few late students to repeat issues already covered or to continue from issues that require continuous threads, like a web dialogue. Time is lost in that the students coming earlier could have left to go about their own activities. Unless there is a practice of waiting for others at almost every instance from shopping to delayed cable broadcast, that is indeed a very patient and understanding person.

Unless the students are professional students, working 6 to 10 hours 5 days work week followed by classes, allowances are provided for by the instructors.

- Late assignments.

Late assignments translate into being unable to complete any given task in working life: a shop customer is not going to wait half a day to be served. Would you be willing to wait?

Learning to prioritise assignments needed now as opposed to those need later: does a shop assistant attend to a cue building up at a cashier or continue piling up shelves and risk annoying and loosing customers? Money that would otherwise have come in has now gone to a rival shop and that shop assistant’s pay is correspondingly lower.

Better to be on time with an okay assignment than late with a perfect assignment. It saves you time to do what you like.

- Miss classes repeatedly.

The instructors are concerned that the attendee is not able to follow subsequent developments imparted and generated in the class. Certain topics require a strong understanding of the basics, without which doing more becomes fruitless.

Perhaps the attendee not interested in the class should approach the relevant study bodies to switch courses to something better suited. This saves time for the student and frees up time for the instructor to focus on the existing group. It takes two to clap.

What it says to instructors - Late for a Class. Late assignments. Miss classes repeatedly.

This is an ideal situation for unconcerned instructors in non-performance based institutions. Performance based institutions require instructors to received independent passes of their candidates or they face loosing their jobs.

Where the above three conditions are prevalent, dependent on institution type and education requirement, instructors and employers alike, view such persons as disinterested, ineffectual and poor team players, insofar as these qualities indicate a person not able to be responsible to others and to themselves.

Irresponsibility derives from the contract.

- This contract is signed by the prospective student upon enrolment with the school. The minor’s excuse may hold sway up to the legal age. Where of age persons would consider themselves lucky if cast aside and nothing more unbecoming were to happen to them.
- Leeching time from other class attendees,
- Not up to academic standards in that the supposedly intelligent student is incapable of a simple act of communicating to the instructor on being late.

Military instructors are a different breed as issues of life and death are at stake. One person not performing or being in the right place at the right time may mean another person loosing life and limb.

Answer 5

It makes them feel that you are uninterested in the class.