Quote Originally Posted by Jock Scot View Post
If the students can't be bothered, why should you be? As has been suggested, fail them.
That is the school I am from. tests are mandatory----don't take them, fail the class. But actual classroom attendance is optional. In my med school we students banded together to generate a note taking service, wherein each student had responsibility for generating quality summary notes of a few lectures a semester, while others had responsibility to record those lectures on tape, and others to photocopy and distribute the final written/typed notes.

Many of the classes I took I almost never showed up except for tests and the textbooks were so good that my time was better spent reading them, repeatedly sometimes, instead of sitting in class listening to someone discuss less than one tenth of what we were responsible for, and then still having to do the same reading.

Every student, sooner or later, figures out their own learning style and motivation (or lack thereof) and their eventual grades reflect that. And their position in later life reflects it often as well.