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xepherys · 01-27-2006, 02:22 PM

Another slight rewrite:

I want to express my concern about two of my courses taught by the same instructor; specifically APSE504-B and APSE502-B as taught by [NAME]. The schedule states that APSE504 runs from 8:00am until 11:50am while APSE502 runs from 1:00pm until 4:50pm. My concern is that Mr. [NAME] is often late; for example, on January 27, he was almost 20 minutes late. Not only is Mr. [NAME] is late, he has also been running the classes almost 30 minutes past the end time. Several students (including myself) in these classes have other commitments such as another class or work.

I understand that this semester has a shorter number of weeks considering reading week and holidays but I wanted to discuss options to have this situation remedied as it causes hardships for the students that have other commitments that are interefered with because of this matter. Thank you for your consideration!

I assume the first class listed does not last 14 hours. If so, perhaps you should look at other schools! ;-) Sounding forceful but polite is VERY effective. Less "I hoped that we could maybe find a possible fix to parts of this issue" and more "I pay to go to school here, and I have a job that incurs additional responsibilities. This job was attained in good faith based on posted class schedules that are being violated". There's a fine line... don't be a jerk, but state what you mean in a straight-forward fashion.

01-27-2006, 02:22 PM	#11 (permalink)
xepherys <3 TFP Location: 17TLH2445607250	Another slight rewrite: I want to express my concern about two of my courses taught by the same instructor; specifically APSE504-B and APSE502-B as taught by [NAME]. The schedule states that APSE504 runs from 8:00am until 11:50am while APSE502 runs from 1:00pm until 4:50pm. My concern is that Mr. [NAME] is often late; for example, on January 27, he was almost 20 minutes late. Not only is Mr. [NAME] is late, he has also been running the classes almost 30 minutes past the end time. Several students (including myself) in these classes have other commitments such as another class or work. I understand that this semester has a shorter number of weeks considering reading week and holidays but I wanted to discuss options to have this situation remedied as it causes hardships for the students that have other commitments that are interefered with because of this matter. Thank you for your consideration! I assume the first class listed does not last 14 hours. If so, perhaps you should look at other schools! ;-) Sounding forceful but polite is VERY effective. Less "I hoped that we could maybe find a possible fix to parts of this issue" and more "I pay to go to school here, and I have a job that incurs additional responsibilities. This job was attained in good faith based on posted class schedules that are being violated". There's a fine line... don't be a jerk, but state what you mean in a straight-forward fashion.