By Lin Liang-che and William Hetherington / Staff reporter, with staff writerA university lecturer in Changhua County has been amusing visitors to his Facebook page by posting students’ “spirited” and imaginative reasons for cutting classes. The lecturer, who teaches a design course at a university in the county, after the mid-term exams requested that students who were frequently absent write 500-word reports explaining the reasons for their absences. I was as anxious as if I were signing a permission letter for one of my parents to undergo surgery,” the student wrote. One student, who had difficulty making the 500-word requirement, ended his report: “I will make up the remaining several hundred words with the phrase: ‘I’m sorry.’ ‘I’m sorry.’ ‘I’m sorry.’ ‘I’m sorry.’ ‘I’m sorry.’”Another filled their report with the phrase: “I kept throwing up.”One student got very creative. “The fact that they were even willing to write reports at all is quite impressive,” he wrote.

Source: Taipei Times December 02, 2016 16:02 UTC