The Dunce Award Goes To Colleges (Macon State College)

Confession time: When I went to college I attended a semester and passed all of my classes. Wasn't too tough or anything, but during that semester I found a second job and got wrapped up in trying to have enough money to eat and go to school and was so worn out from the constant work that I didn't really go to class the next semester. Or the year that followed.

I did a horrible job with college. But you know what? They still got paid.

I didn't go to a single class my last semester there and they still got their money and it was just like someone DID go to class except there was no one in the seat and they failed. Not a big deal financially since them getting their money was not dependent on my attendance or the final grade I received.

But now some colleges are saying that if you miss four classes you automatically get an F. Four. Four out of more than 24. I can say that this isn't so unreasonable if you're dealing with healthy kids straight out of high school but there is also a rising upswing of adults that are attending college now. Moms and dads in their late twenties, thirties, forties and on. Everyone needs an education and should be able to get one if they pay for it.

Because they're PAYING for it. All the college has to do is supply the opportunity for the student to go to class by having that class go on as planned. That's it.

Before I became a dad I didn't get sick very much. Now, I get sick all the time. My beautiful baby girl gets sick all the time and no matter how often I get sick from her she seems to find new germs to bring home that my body either can't defend itself against or hasn't had the luxury of previous defence and immunity.

Basically, I'm dying.

But Kim's even worse because she's going to school right now and with Annie getting sick that means she can't go to daycare which means my wife has to stay home with a sick baby (or by then she's sick herself) and miss school. Since my daughter gets sick about oh, every two or three weeks odds are pretty great Kim's going to surpass that four absence rule.

Applause to the college (sarcastic clap here) for being stupid enough to consider such a ccccrrrraaaaazzzzzyyyy situation as a parent trying to go to school to make a better life for their family. I'll tell you right now, when I start going back to school (which shouldn't be too much longer) and someone tries that crap with me, we'll see what happens. I'm not afraid to call bull and if someone caught wind of a ridiculous rule like this and a student that failed because the night prior their little girl was so sick she couldn't sleep so as her dad was holding her on the couch and soothing her she puked all over him (all OVER him!!!) and couldn't go to daycare the next day, I'm sure someone would be interested.

It's absolutely ridiculous.