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Professor recreates memes as response to students’ finals week baloney

Do you remember that professor who gave his students a taste of their own medicine after he caught them studying Spanish in their Engineering class? Well, we found another teacher who came up with an unlikely and hilarious solution to their common problems in the classroom.

David Red is a Physics professor at St. John’s River State College in Florida. Like all teachers, David deals with quite a handful of crazy students during finals week. It’s that time in the semester when students who barely attended class or who didn’t study the material before exams suddenly come to his cubicle looking for extra credit or bargaining for a better grade.

“I love the students generally and most of them are fantastic people that are really trying,” he said in an interview with Bored Panda.  “But like all teachers that deal with thousands of students, there are the occasional few that drive you crazy.”

As response to the finals week BS he regularly gets, David has taken to hilariously recreating memes and posting them on his Facebook account. He said that the memes are mostly about “the elements of teaching that are frustrating to all teachers.”

The memes have also helped him connect to his students better, because he is communicating to them on their level.

“Anything that makes the students feel like I put my real-self into the class helps,” he explained. “If my real-self is in the room, then their real-self shows up too. And when they’re fully present like that, they learn.”

Take a look at his hilarious posts below:

Just submitted some final grades.

Posted by David Red on Saturday, April 28, 2018

All set for my meeting with the student that missed more than 30 classes this semester and emailed me to set up an appointment to talk about his grade.

Posted by David Red on Tuesday, April 24, 2018

When a student asks what they need on the final to get an A for the class when they haven't passed a single test or quiz yet.

Posted by David Red on Tuesday, April 17, 2018

Tomorrow, IT is finally here.

Posted by David Red on Sunday, December 10, 2017

Posted by David Red on Sunday, December 3, 2017

The time draws nigh.

Posted by David Red on Friday, November 10, 2017

#SweetRed speaks for all teachers at the end of the academic year.

Posted by David Red on Thursday, May 4, 2017

I speak for all teachers at the end of the academic year.

Posted by David Red on Thursday, April 27, 2017

I speak for all teachers at the end of the academic year.

Posted by David Red on Wednesday, April 26, 2017

I speak for all teachers at the end of the academic year.

Posted by David Red on Tuesday, April 25, 2017

I speak for all teachers at the end of the academic year. #ExamWeek

Posted by David Red on Sunday, April 23, 2017

 

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