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Compare with college students' failure to notice their professor's hint in a class syllabus: "Thus (free to the first who claims; locker one hundred forty-seven; combination fifteen, twenty-five, thirty-five), students may be ineligible to make up classes and ..."

https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/18/us/tennessee-professor-syllab...

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Which has received appropriate backlash from real teachers who actually give a damn, myself included. As a teacher, your job is to communicate, not obscure. I suppose it's sort of a cute thing to do, but he was such a smug jerk about it.

See this is where you have gone wrong - professors are not teachers. At a certain age, it's sink or swim.

This is a joke, right?

Are you saying the syllabus was deliberately obfuscated as part of the game?

How much of your class typically emails you to ask things listed on the syllabus, however clear it is, such as the final exam date?

Very infrequently, because I TALK TO THEM. I communicate with my students regularly. I don't put up b*s* barriers to learning that these nerd know-it-alls mistake for "rigor."

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