I have one student who e-mails me (give or take) 3 times a day. Always has a question on the readings, has questions on assignments, has questions on homework, etc, etc, etc. I have reached the point where I just plain don't feel like answering her back. I ultimately do, but I've lost the need to e-mail her back ASAP. I doubt many other professors constantly and continually respond to their students, at all hours of the day and night, weeknights and weekends.
Maybe that was my mistake. By starting out with a good response time, I doomed myself. Now she expects an answer right away, hence the constant deluge of e-mails.
So I am weening myself off.
Well, weening from just responding. Don't think I could ween myself off checking my e-mail. But thats a topic for another post.
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