The AboveTheLaw blog brings us news from the University of Texas and William and Mary law schools where a few professors are still working on their grades for the fall semester. This isn’t some dorky gut course at a big diploma mill either, these are law students and some employees actually look at the grades. One UT student claims to have lost a job because there was no transcript and so the employer decided to hire someone with some proof.
Why? William Van Alstyne is quoted in the blog saying:
I was suffering from the flu, running daily temperatures frequently above 102, with additional delay because of scheduled out-of-state speaking engagements (concluding just last weekend at the University of North Carolina Law School).
Notice how he suggests that research trips and speaking engagements are a perfectly valid excuse for not doing the one thing he’s paid to do: grade students. Those sound like misplaced priorities to me. Maybe he should talk less and earn his paycheck more?
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