"Sue Cooke, Assistant Headteacher at Wallington County Grammar School, Surrey, said: 'We are definitely wising up to their tech trickery.'"
So, you're telling me that it took a while for teachers to "wise up" to a kid lying about his dog eating his work? C'mon. The only thing that's changed is the crappy excuse. A broken computer is no better than a poorly trained pup.
Maybe teachers are dumber/lazier/more gullible than they used to be?
"i forgot my network password so couldn't print it"
my personal favourite is keeping a corrupt publisher file on the memory pen and just handing it in, then when i next have that subject the teacher will say he cant open the file and you can hand in the real thing.
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Kids blame technology for homework hand-in failures
Xander
Printers #
Posted Thursday 20th November 2008 21:43 GMT
Ahhh. My printer being out of ink was responsible for so many late homeworks...
Anonymous Coward
El Reg... copying homework again? #
Posted Thursday 20th November 2008 21:43 GMT
Mr.Sherwood, this report seems remarkably similar to one handed in my Mr.Haines yesterday. I think there may be some plagiarism going on here...
My brother's a teacher & when he gets the "Printer ran out of toner" excuse he responds with "Well, why didn't you email me your homework?".
Planeten Paultje
Heh :-) #
Posted Thursday 20th November 2008 21:43 GMT
It devoured my paper.....
Lloyd
Sounds ike Pixmania trying to drum up some business #
Posted Thursday 20th November 2008 21:43 GMT
There can't be many people left who have been fleeced by the "you'll have to send it back to France" warranty.
Anonymous Coward
‘I lost my laptop’ #
Posted Thursday 20th November 2008 21:43 GMT
those kids are obviously preparing for careers in politics...
Andrew Beresford
Fifteen years late #
Posted Thursday 20th November 2008 21:43 GMT
Good grief... I used the same excuses over fifteen years ago and didn't get away with it *then*.
I found that you got a little less hassle if you just said " I haven't done it".
Paris - cos she didn't like homework either.
Nate
Slow on the uptake? #
Posted Thursday 20th November 2008 21:43 GMT
"Sue Cooke, Assistant Headteacher at Wallington County Grammar School, Surrey, said: 'We are definitely wising up to their tech trickery.'"
So, you're telling me that it took a while for teachers to "wise up" to a kid lying about his dog eating his work? C'mon. The only thing that's changed is the crappy excuse. A broken computer is no better than a poorly trained pup.
Maybe teachers are dumber/lazier/more gullible than they used to be?
Allan Rutland
If they thought about it a bit better... #
Posted Friday 21st November 2008 13:52 GMT
they could just hand in some gibberish file and claim they were a Mac or Linux user thus getting the rest of the world to excuse them.
daryl agnew
most popular excuses in my school #
Posted Friday 21st November 2008 20:46 GMT
"the file is corrupt"
"i forgot to save it as word 03 format"
"i have a mac"
"my printer is broke"
"i forgot my memory pen"
"i lost my memory pen playing football"
"i forgot my network password so couldn't print it"
my personal favourite is keeping a corrupt publisher file on the memory pen and just handing it in, then when i next have that subject the teacher will say he cant open the file and you can hand in the real thing.