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Former student expresses frustration with faculty cut-list system (9/06)
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Written by The Lowell Staff
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I was the last person any one would have ever expected to see on the cut list. So when a fellow senior informed me of our sharing a place within those awful spreadsheet lines, I was mortified.
I had never cut class. Besides not having a strong desire to do so, I was also terrified by the idea of being caught by the skipped-class’s teacher. Because of my obvious innocence, I assumed the mix up would be easily remedied. But it wasn’t. Instead, I fought for nearly
three weeks with both the deans, my counselor and the accusing teacher. But after most of the absences were cleared up by the teacher simply checking his records, I still had 8 absences to my name. The supposed cuts were nothing more than an unattentive and snarky substitute. He had marked me absent for a full two-week span while my teacher had been away in Europe. Why? I have no clue, but no one would simply pick up a telephone to ask this senile sub if his making an error could be a possibility. Instead I was told to pick up 16 bags of garbage. But when I went to the dean for my school-mandated trash bags I was handed a shopping list. I spent $16.98 to buy myself off of the cut list. A small price to pay for some, but a slap in the face to someone who watched other school-skipping offenders walk completely free.
-Fiona Wozniak, Class of 2006
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