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Why do you need that information?
attendance. If they're not there when I call their name, I have to note it to their employer (apprenticeship) online. If they text me, I know they're going to be in class shortly.
If students are showing up late, it often makes sense to chat with the on-timers instead of starting the lesson, especially if the first activity is instruction-heavy; involves an exercise with reading aloud, group discussion, or presenting; or requires breaking students into groups. Ideally the actual first activity doesn’t, but that’s often just directed chatting and you can extend that until everyone’s arrived. If they’re going to be 15+ minutes late, it might be better to just start the activity and time it so they can join on the next one. If you don’t know if they’re coming at all vs just coming late, it can be hard to time the actual beginning of the class.
They know what time the class starts.
And yet as a teacher, I’d rather teach them than not.
Need what info. They’re giving the number to the students, not the other way around.
And for what did OC say the students could use their number?
Teacher gives number to students.
Students are to inform teacher if they’re going to be late to class.
One kid prank calls teacher.
Teacher knows it’s the kid because of his voice and now knows prank caller’s phone number.
Not sure where in there the teacher is collecting student phone numbers.
You are the only person to imagine the professor collecting students' phone numbers.
What information?
Read the comment I replied to. For what did OC say the students could use their number?
I’m out.
Sorry about your reading comprehension
Sorry about yours too.
"No U?" Brilliant.
Nobody else failed to insert my comment, bub.
You should try answering the question I've asked you twice now. It'll help you understand what you misread before.
Sure thing, what’s the question ya maroon?
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For what did OC say the students could use their number?
“ I give my private number to all my students, so they can text me if they're late for class.”
Good job identifying the significant sentence! Can you explain what that means? In your own words, what information would the professor be collecting?
None.
If I give you my number, do I magically have your number? No! So what data does the professor have.
If I tell you I live at 123 Main Street, that doesn’t mean I know where you live.
Now it’s your turn to explain yourself what data specifically the professor is collecting.
If you carefully read the second part of the sentence, you'll see that the professor is collecting the information of which students will be late to class.
Where are you getting the idea that the professor is collecting phone numbers?
Yes. He is asking for that information. Similar to how a job asks for that information.
Is your job “collection that information”? Are you paranoid that they’re going to fire you? Time for a new job?
Or are you worried that this is going on their “Permanent record” that doesn’t exisit.
What is the concern that the professor is asking people to let the professor know when they’ll be late?
If the paranoia is about data collection, go worry about the government and metadata collection or flock and their blatant mass surveillance. One professor with a text thread at some college is not mass surveillance.
You are extremely good at imagining things that people did not write. Unfortunately for you, I'm not sure that's a marketable skill.
You’re really good at having your head up your arse.
You tell me what the specific problem is.
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The only problem here is you, chucklehead. I was literally just asking why the teacher needed that information. OC gave a very reasonable response days ago. Your head is so far up your ass with bizarre conspiracy theories that you can't even conceive that somebody would just ask a simple question.
Thank you for proving my point.
All talk and no action, eh?