I can’t keep up. I just checked my email, and I have 46 emails from as many students in the past 24 hours. For some reason, the number of students who email me keeps rising each semester. If I take a while to respond, you know why!
I’ve written on this subject before.
From that article originally posted:
Meg Worley, an assistant professor of English at Pomona College in California, said she told students that they must say thank you after receiving a professor’s response to an e-mail message.
“One of the rules that I teach my students is, the less powerful person always has to write back,” Professor Worley said.
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Ridiculous. So the lowly student must graciously thank the professor for doing what their job requires (making sure students learn) while the professor has no duty to reply to the thanks? I feel lucky that I haven’t had such pompous professors myself, or at least have been lucky enough to not have proof of their pomposity.
Yikes indeed. In your honor, I won’t complain about my student email volume for the next three hours.