Okay. Today, I came up to my teacher to give her my late assignment.

She asked me why I gave her right now.

I told her that I didn’t do it over the weekend because I totally forgot about it. Unusually, she didn’t write down the assignments on the board that the class needed to complete. Since I had a hearing disability, I’m not really good at catching information by verbal in air.

Then she says, "That was your choice not to do it".

I was confused; I didn’t really choose not to do it.
i know it's my mistake for not remembering it.

I always turned in every assignment.
For some reason, I didn’t turn in the assignment this time.

the question is: is forgetting a choice or not ?

Um.. no, it's not. Sometimes things just slip out of your mind.

Taylor``

Its not a choice, but it isn't an excuse either. Though it is valid, your teacher doesn't know that. If it became acceptable, everyone would blame their failures on forgetfulness.

They already do :)

Taylor``

its a pretty goddamn good excuse

Thats why no one takes it seriously.

And yes, it is a good excuse. I forget all the time.
No one believes it though, because that's what everyone says.

Ur fault for forgetting.

explain why. if you dont have a reasonable information. i wont accept you and ... your little answer.

you did not support your statement. what made you think that way? have you gone through these experience?

tell me whatever to support yourself before i start to assume things.

sometimes people convienently [sp?] forget so the can not feel guilty but truley forgetting is well, forgetting you dont have a choice

I think that's good enough backup.

And it sounds like you're just making excuses. Stuff happens. Sometimes you slip up, and you just have to say, "Oh well, better remember next time."

Forgetting or remembering is not a choice. It's something that comes automatically. At any given moment, you can't choose to remember your 2nd grade classroom on the 4th of September and what color crayon you were using, who you were sitting next to and when your next spelling test was going to be. Or you can't choose to forget it. It just happens.

So, technically, if you forget something, it isn't your fault, but there are things you do to prevent it. At our school they give us daily planners to write down dates for tests, quizzes or due dates and also homework for each subject.

it's a reason, but it's not a very good excuse. of course you didn't choose not to do it, so you just forgot. a simple mistake. but like Katt said, there are things that you could do to prevent you from forgetting again.

What kinda "debate" is this?

i can't help myself if i forget things

Thats kind of true in a way.But everyoen says its an excuse when you say you forgot because the majority of people do actually forget things they should remember and after it becomes a habit of forgetting things,it became under the word EXCUSE.Or "that was you choicE"or all those other b-tchy remarks.

As a result yes i think to forget its when it just slips like when i go to the store for my mom which is all the time.She will tell me to get things she need for the house like fabuloso,swavitel,sofrito for food,bread,milk e.t.c,I will forget one out of the whole thing because it honestly just slips my mind.So yeah i think its just because it slips >.<

That's like the definition of lying. Lying isn't lying unless you KNOW that you're telling the person the wrong piece of information. When you knowingly tell an untrue statement, you're lying. But you could tell someone an untrue statement accidentally, and since you didn't know that you were lying, then you weren't.

Choosing to forget only means that you chose not to do it. Forgetting, by definition, is not a voluntary act. Forgetting always means that you meant to do something, but failed to do it. Choosing to forget means that you choose to fail to do something that you meant to do.

Wow. Confusing.

true. i always do my best to do everything correctly.



Well, as you know, i didn’t really choose to forget and lie. Just like I mentioned, I always turn in every assignment. it means that, i really meant to do it.i'm the kind of person who cares about school and pretty much that envolve with teacher's expectations. In my case, it wasn’t voluntary forgotten, it was involuntary forgotten.

^ Well, I'm saying, that there's only involutary forgetting, and there's not voluntary forgetting. So I'm on your side.

If you turned in every assignment and you slip up one time and your teacher replies with "That was your choice not to do it." you either A. Have a bitch for a teacher or B. Have a teacher who is ignorant beyond reason.

How in the world is that your choice to forget?

Humans aren't perfect. We make mistakes. The brain doesn't always work the way it "should", or the way we want it to, and we can't help it.. forgetting is absolutely not a choice. It could have been a choice to write it down though, so you could remember it. But I'm not sure.

I think some thoughts just get lost in the back of your mind.
Does that even make sense?
like you get so caught up in something then forget what you were really sopossed to be doing.

I dunno, but I do that.