A few weeks ago, I called out a student in class for being completely unprepared for leading a discussion on an article the class had been assigned. First time I did that in the senior seminar class. I knew it was going to be embarrassing and I hoped she didn't cry, but I had to do it. She was wasting everyone's time reading verbatim from the article as she "summarized" it for us. This is not the interesting part.
Last week, she was in my office meeting about her research paper that was due yesterday. During that meeting she referred to the incident a few weeks back. She said that she hadn't come talk to me about it because she was embarrassed by how unprepared she was. She went on to say that a few students approached her after class and asked her if she was mad about it. She said that she had no reason to be mad. She was unprepared and I was completely right to call her on it.
Wait, huh? Did a student just take responsibility for her work (or lack thereof)?
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