Ifstudents are learning from home, they can no longerclaim they left their homework on the kitchen table. And the amount of workcarried out online means it’s highly unlikelythe dog, cat or hamstercould have eaten it.
Well, that’s a relief, right? Surely we can wave goodbye to thoseexasperatingarguments over essay hand-ins?
Unfortunately not.If there’s one thing Blackpool teacher Josh Quinn (@quinnglish) has learned during this crisis, it’s that students have an endless capacity for coming up with new and ingenious excuses.
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In a three-part series captioned “email wars” shared on the social media app TikTok, the English teacher has dramatised his experience of outsmarting students who would really rather not crack on with their remote learning.
Online learning: Students’ hilarious excuses
With just about every excuse in the book thrown his way, Mr Quinn has an answer for them all -and the results are hilarious.
Themini-series has proved extremely popular, amassingnearly 4 millionviews and 700,000likes. No wonder this resilient teacherdescribes himself as the “CEO of email wars” in his TikTok bio.
Watch the three videos below...
Email wars
Email wars pt 2 - and join forces.
Email wars pt 3
