Comment by woopwoop

> They want me to do their work for them. During the Covid lockdown, faculty bent over backwards in every way we knew how to accommodate students during an unprecedented (in our lifetimes) health crisis. Now students expect that as a matter of routine. I am frequently asked for my PowerPoint slides, which basically function for me as lecture notes. It is unimaginable to me that I would have ever asked one of my professors for their own lecture notes. No, you can’t have my slides. Get the notes from a classmate. Read the book. Come to office hours for a conversation if you are still confused after the preceding steps. Last week I had an email from a student who essentially asked me to recap an entire week’s worth of lecture material for him prior to yesterday’s midterm. No, I’m not doing that. I’m not writing you a 3000-word email. Try coming to class.

I dunno man. Not writing a 3000 word email is one thing, but if you make a power point an then don't share it electronically, it smells like you are cajoling students to attend your lectures in order to stroke your ego. These people are paying a lot of money to attend your course; if they feel that they would get more value out of looking at your power point without attending your lectures that is not something that should be sneered away. Both as an undergraduate student and a graduate TA I was always very put off by this kind of high-handed bullying instructors would engage in to juice attendance of their courses. Just teach well and evaluate accurately. That's what they're paying you for. They're not paying for you to harass them into being at some inconvenient place at a particular time every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.