Immigrant American education--Reasons for American students to leave

A Chinese immigrant who emigrated to the United States and worked as a teaching assistant in the United States for a few years, tells about his experiences at school, where American students can be divided into two types, one for life and the other for dishonesty.

Here are the students who lie to be "fine". Every time you arrive near an exam or an important homework submission date, I always receive some emails from students, the content of which is to ask for a make-up exam or postpone the assignment, and the reason is strange: my grandfather died, I want to go to funeral; my father is a soldier, returned from Iraq, I want to go to reunite with him; Married to a Malaysian, our family is going to the wedding. In order to embody the respect for the social tradition,

American schools are very accommodating to the students ' participation in the weddings, and the teacher must be spared in this kind of thing. Also, the United States attaches great importance to religious freedom, a lot of small sects have their own customs, teachers must also respect the beliefs of students, such as some students will directly and I said: "I believe that the religion of the day I do not want to do anything, so I asked to postpone the exam."

　　” Of course, there are countless other bizarre events that hinder students from handing in their homework: roommate food poisoning, need care, drive for speeding, need to go to court; What is the authenticity of these things? I am not very straightforward, but there is a data can share: one semester, I have a total of 100 students, including more than 30 of the grandfather died! One of them may be a family member too complex, unexpectedly dead three grandpa! Of course, there may be a problem with his memory. Once, I really can not restrain their "spit" psychology, in the first lesson on the clear to the students: "I am the expectation of your class is-your family must live well!"

　　The students, of course, know what I mean, they will smile, but they will not be able to lie about the make-up exam or postpone the homework. In short, this is the two types of students I know, they fear the ruthless honor system, but also in order to evade the examination of the family "anyway." These interesting young people have brought some trouble to my teaching life, but they have added a lot of fun.