Tuesday, November 30, 2004

Student emails

One thing I'll miss about teaching? Student e-mail.

Here's one I received this morning. Students were to select a controversial issue from a list and write a 5-page paper.

Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 9:09 AM
Subject: Correction-topic


I just sent you an email requesting 'gay abortion' as my topic. This was
definately not what i meant. I meant to ask you if I could do Megans Law.
I was looking at the Essay #4 assignment sheet and wrote the wrong topic.

Apologies.


It simply doesn't get more controversial than 'gay abortion.' I was tempted to respond that she should stick with that topic, which "definately" isn't on the sheet--though gay adoption is.

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