Can you fail a college class simply by not attending?
i havent been going to my classes for atleast the past month and i only go when i have to turn in a paper or project. can a college fail you for poor attendance?
2008-03-26T05:45:29Z
ok the only reason i dont go now is cause i just feel like its a lost cause already cause its like no matter what i do i cant get a good grade in college. its harddddd. its not that im lazy, its just like i feel like no matter how hard i try it never works out in the end. and i do feel bad never going to class and i always feel a twinge of guilt when i dont go.
zbsrnf2008-03-26T05:45:04Z
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my school it is compulsory to attend. butg i know schools where it isnt if you have your work handed in and completed it doesn't matter its your responsibility.
however teachers wont help you if they know you havent been attending any of there classes neither will they recommend you for jobs because you dont demonstrate good qualities like reliability and punctuality.
if you don't show up you cant learn and you will fail if you dont know what your doing.some schools put leture notes online
You might even raise your grade if you start showing up to class. Here's a true story from this semester. There were less than half of the students in the classroom and the prof announced "Pull out a piece of paper. We're having a pop quiz. With the students freaking out, he stood there as stoic as possible. When the paper shuffle had quieted, he told them to put their names and ID numbers on the paper. Still calm, the prof waited for the task to be completed. "First question. Please tell me the color of the red shirt I am wearing today." The class sat there stunned for a couple seconds, then wrote the word "red" on their papers, at which time the prof told them to pass the papers to the end of the row and that the grade would be included in their averages.
The following week, on a regular quiz day when the class was full, the prof routinely mentioned that this was the third quiz of the semester. At that time one of the students raised his hand and said that there had only been one quiz so far. The prof, with a straight face, answered the young man by telling him there had been a pop quiz the previous Friday. The student who told me the story was amused by the soft gasps in the room. And since then every class period has been full. This didn't happen at some small university that nobody knows of. It happened at one of the public Big 12 schools, in a classroom that seats 300 people.
This story isn't going to help you, but it's worth remembering because it can happen. Bottom line: your best chance of success comes from attending classes and getting help when you don't understand. But not attending, you are avoiding the issue and that is never a good solution.
I know exactly how you feel. I basically stopped attending school at a young age and never really learned any math, but I am now taking calculus courses in school. I never thought it would be possible. What you need to do is just start from the basics. Go to a community college and get your AA, it's a lot cheaper than going to a 4 year college and once you transfer to a major university it will be as if you attended it the entire time. You will also be required to take a lot of courses you normally wouldn't if you were just majoring in one field, such as Humanities (which is really fun) and social science classes. Maybe that can help you figure out your niche. At a community college you will be required to take pre allgebra, then beginning and then intermediate and then you can finally take a college level course, unless you can test out of them but if you're not familiar with math I don't recommend it. It's a pain in the butt but it really is beneficial. They also have free tutoring available and different places you can go to have math help. It is very hard to pass any college classes if you treat it like high school so please remember that this a temporary bump in the path of a more stable life. I'm personally studying Computer Engineering with a focus is Cisco networking. I started out at beginning algebra and I still count on my fingers some times but after living in poverty for 5 years I am more motivated than I ever possibly could be. Graphic design can pay well but it is hard to find a decent job. I would recommend getting a major in the field you really want and eventually minoring in other fields. You could also always go back and get a major in Astrophysics or Astronomy. Stay in school as long as possible, especially in this economy. My goal is to work in the systems department at NASA. I've always loved universal exploration but the only thing I'm good at is computers. I've also changed my major about 5 times until I found what was right for me. I really hope this was helpful. Just ask yourself every day how much you actually care. This really helps me when I think of skipping class :)
If the class (or the college as a whole) has an attendance policy, absolutely. One of my colleagues has a policy that no students may miss more than 3 classes, or they fail the entire course. If there is no such policy, it becomes a little more difficult. Of course, if you haven't been attending, your papers and projects probably don't incorporate the learning from the lectures, and you could fail on those grounds.
One thing you have to realize is that a school's accreditation depends upon contact hours between faculty and students, among other things. If you are given credit for so many units or credit hours, but you haven't had any contact with the professor, the school itself could be in trouble. Their alternative is to fail you for failing to meet the required number of contact hours.