Monday, January 28, 2008

Pet Peeves, part 1

Why part 1? Because I suspect that this will be an ever-growing list that I will add to many times over the course of my library career.

Things that make me twitchy:
  • Teachers who tell their students "just copy and paste from the website into your presentation."
  • Teachers who copy workbooks (I'm starting to be of two minds about this. Yes, it's a copyright violation. However, when your school has 10 workbooks for 5 sections of a class, what are teachers supposed to do? Still...makes my little law-abiding soul cringe.)
  • Students who claim "I wasn't (insert X forbidden action here)" when they were, I/We saw/heard them do it. Most of the students here are pretty good about just taking their penalty and moving on, but a few will lie right to your face about the thing you just saw them do 2 seconds ago. Usually this is in the vein of "Man, I didn't do nuthin, man, why y'all tryin' to play me, man, this is...."
  • Teachers who bring their rowdy middle school class into the library and then wander out to do something unspecified for an unspecified amount of time, leaving me to babysit (usually right around the time I need to go to the office, or the textbook room, or a teacher's classroom, or...)

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