Seriously...a classmate posted today in the general questions thread that since there was to be no participation requirement in this, our final week of class (due to the heavy final exam, final project requirement, I imagine), would response posts made this week count toward participation in previous weeks for those who fell short?

She's kidding, right?

Gosh...if he allows everyone to "participate" all at once in the final week, what would the class discuss during the other four weeks? And these people are in COLLEGE.

Aaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh.....

Like I've said before, I know grade-schoolers with better academic skills than some of the teammates I have worked with in my Bachelor program. The same applies to their reasoning skills...Newsflash! Participation requirements are spelled out in the course syllabus (not to mention the student handbook and posted under class policies in the very first week of class). Participation requirements must be met during the week; 2 posts on 4 out of 7 days. If you missed this requirement during any of the five weeks of class, you have not adequately participated in the class discussion, have you. By posting a bunch of responses in the final week of class, when the rest of the class is not discussing anything, how is that participating in a discussion? How is that adding to a discussion?

OMG.

Ok...I think I'm just agitated about other things...but my brain is rattling for all of the incredulous head-shaking I am doing from reading some of the things these people are saying.

I need to get some sleep.