I teach a 100 hour class a couple times a year to mostly college aged people who need it as a prerequisite for jobs of great responsibility. I got pretty annoyed with things like:
- But you didn't tell us THAT would be on the test. It was in the (handout, video, workbook, text, lecture) but not in the (handbook, video, workbook, text, lecture)...
Of course it always amused me that they could tell me where it was, but couldn't get a question about it right on the quiz.
The day that tipped me over the edge, however, was one round, first class of the series, we're there for an 8 hour session. Ten minutes in, I asked them to take out their text and write the phone number down inside the front cover so that they could call if they were going to be late or miss a class. There was only ONE person out of 20 that had a writing implement with them. I passed around little golf pencils, they scribbled the number down and STARTED PASSING THE PENCILS BACK! I told them I was pretty sure that sometime in the next 8 hours, I might say at least one more thing that they should write down!
Let's just say there's a high failure/drop out rate on that class too.