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Student Gets Sweet Revenge On His Lazy Professor After He Unfairly Fails Half The Class
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Student Gets Sweet Revenge On His Lazy Professor After He Unfairly Fails Half The Class

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Educators are quite often key people in shaping who we are, even more so than we think. Maybe it’s a method of approaching things in life, or a concept that we still apply to the work we do—regardless, it’s quite likely you can fondly remember something about your teachers and professors.

However, not all professors are built from the same stuff, and some are better than others. A Reddit user by the nickname of u/malformed_data has recently shared a story of a rotten egg in his academic journey. But wait, there’s more—besides explaining what happened, there was also some very satisfying malicious compliance involved that didn’t end well for the professor.

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Professors come in all shapes and sizes, and, alas, they can sometimes be poor educators

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So, the story goes that Reddit user u/malformed_data, with whom Bored Panda got in touch, had a computer science class with a professor who seemed like he had given up as an educator—maybe showing up for office hours, rarely showing up for labs, and even being absent half of the lecture time.

But that was just part of the problem. The bigger issue here was that he would do this thing where he would fail half the class, regardless of how students performed. And this seemingly happened at random, so students who got similar grades could be on different sides of the passing spectrum.

This Redditor shared a story of how his professor wanted to fail him, but he wasn’t having any of it

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“I’m sure at one point he really enjoyed teaching and was a good teacher, which is probably when he got tenure,” elaborated the Reddit user on whether and why the professor was at the uni for the longest time. “It’s obscenely difficult to fire any professor with tenure. You throw on top of it him being a [person of color] in a heavily majority non-POC campus that has had a rather fraught history of kowtowing to race-hustlers along with so called ‘racist’ incidents blowing up that turned out to be complete nonsense and not bigoted at all, it’s easy to see how he could slip under the radar.”

He continued: “I also think a lot of these terrible college professors get away with what they’re doing through low expectations of their students and the imposing nature of the higher education machine. As a student, you look up at this institution and think ‘How could I stand up to this? What’s the point? They’ll just take his side anyway.’ I was lucky that I was a non-traditional student with a little more life experience so I wasn’t intimidated at all.”

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As it turned out, the Reddit user was one of the unlucky ones to “fail” the class. When he confronted the professor about it, the educator’s response was “[there are] many ways I grade my students and you failed. If you don’t like it, you’re free to appeal the grade but you won’t get it.”

Cue malicious compliance. He went ahead and appealed the grade. Oh, but it didn’t end there. He got everyone in the class who was unsatisfied with their grade to appeal too. And you can imagine how 20+ appeals were ceremoniously brought to the department chair’s office.

What really helped was that the process of appeal also involved other professors, who for the most part weren’t all too happy about Dr. J either.

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“The other professors seemed more exasperated than anything else, although there was a hint of schadenfreude there as well for the world of hurt that was coming down on Dr J. Having to be lumped into the same ilk as Dr J grinded them for a while,” Mal explained the other professors’ as well as students’ reactions. “My fellow students were nervous and scared, as if standing up to Dr J and making a stink would somehow make them go into some kind of karmic debt against the uni and it would catch up with them later. What does that say about our systems of higher education? What kind of leaders are they educating? No leaders I’d want to follow, that’s for sure.”

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Long story short, everyone’s appeal was approved. What is more, Dr. J was also formally warned by the university with some of his courses taken away from him. But how he was able to get away with this for the longest time, let alone with an answer like “[there are] many ways I grade my students and you failed” when there is standardization involved, is beyond surprising. The Reddit user expanded upon this:

“At my college, the syllabus was supposed to be, sort of, the contract between the professor and the students. That was actually the basis of my appeal: we did, MAYBE, 30% of the work that was prescribed on the syllabus. None of the due dates matched up nor did the grading scale. Now, the syllabus wasn’t supposed to be taken at face value as some kind of binding contract, but professors were expected to follow it as close as humanly possible.”

“Dr J threw it out the window the day he walked into class, which was his fatal fault. Had he simply followed the syllabus and not gone completely off the rails, my and my fellow students’ cases would’ve been much more challenging, although I’m still confident the end result would’ve been the same.”

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Needless to say, the post got quite a bit of attention, garnering 24,000 upvotes and engaging people with over 1,100 comments. This was besides the fact that Mal got over 100 Reddit awards for the post.

Many in the comments shared their own bad professor stories. While some sought justice, others were simply lucky, passed the class, and forgot the experience.

Besides gaining 24k upvotes, the post also encouraged a handful of people to share their own stories

So, what are your thoughts on this? How would you have approached this situation? Let us know your devilish schemes in the comment section below!

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Whitney Gal
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I’m not sure why the OP felt the need to discuss the professor’s race. It’s not critical to the story, and there’s some definite anger underlying that rant about “race-hustlers.” You can stand up for yourself without being hateful and angry.

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Warrior Mama
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You beat me to it! Also no need to describe how the person was "not masculine enough." A complaint about the teaching/grade is totally fair; criticism about a person's attributes is just mean and unnecessary.

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JayWantsACat
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

WTF does the professor having an Asian accent have to do with anything? F**k off with that s**t. Also, it's pretty telling that this asshole states 'racist' instances were 'nonsense' and 'bigoted' in of themselves, whines about 'race hustlers', etc. ...while being a racist piece of s**t. He's one step away from ranting about 'reverese racism' and 'white genocide'. Why the f**k was this even published here?

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Jaime
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I didn’t notice that at first, but yeah… there is a lot of thinly veiled racism in there

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TheDivineMsM
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

For as much $ as we pay for tuition in the United States, we deserve teachers that teach and are as invested in the class as the students are.

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Lyone Fein
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Your tuition money goes to pay administrators much more than it does to professors. Unfortunately, most professors are paid less than many high school teachers these days. Perhaps this is one reason that teaching quality has declined?

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Effin Fred
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sounds like it was written by a lazy,racist, student. This is a part of life, you racist-pos-lazy-slacker-student-who-deserved-to-fail!

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Johnny
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If his story is true, then he didn't deserve to fail. I had a similar experience once, along with a couple dozen other students - we convinced the dean to let us late drop a Calculus course due to poor performance on the part of the teacher even though we were past the drop deadline - he'd had many no-shows starting midway through the semester, I went from a B to a D and was completely lost, his tests didn't match what we were doing in homework, and many others in the class had the same problem. Rumor had it that he was going through some personal stuff. The dean let all of us drop the course so we could re-take it the next semester. I got an "A" the second time.

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Freddy Martin
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

For the person who's professor wouldn't run code because it could infect their computer, the professor should've been using a virtual machine if he was worried about that

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Lyone Fein
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am a former professor and I am horrified by these stories. While it is true that many students come to college unprepared for the level of work and discipline required, I have never encountered the kind of laziness on the part of faculty described here. I don't know how these people even made it through grad school. These are exactly the kinds of people that are supposed to be weeded out by both the rigors of graduate study, and the absurdly long hiring process for professors. As for harsh grading : It is crucial to maintain academic standards. But if they are arbitrary, they are meaningless.

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Earl Grey
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You were exceptionally lucky. I was with a major US university for 20+ years, first as a grad student, then staff, then faculty, then administrator. I had a 360-degree vantage point during that time and encountered quite a few instances of laziness, incompetence, fraud and criminal behavior. Professors are just people and their population exhibits the same bell curve as any other group. There were a few superstars, but also faculty who were alcoholics, or whose marriages were falling apart because they were having affairs with students or their lab techs, or who didn’t stay current in their fields, or who were burned up and just checked out. Oftentimes grad students graded papers, not the faculty. I concluded that the root cause was the way faculty positions got budgeted and staffed. The university had a time limit in which to fill vacant positions and often had to settle on the 3rd, 4th or 5th-best candidate. Hopefully things are better now at my Alma Mater.

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Shon
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Alternate headline: "lazy, racist student DEMANDS to pass the exam without studying". And this is the real reason the school system is failing. Students now think their scores are owed to them, they do not want to put the hard work, and the worst part: they are right, because they can get a professor fired easily if they hissy fit enough. This is because 100 lazy students bring more $$$$$$ to schools than 10 students who actually work hard. So teachers can no longer punish students. Students know that, so when a teacher tries to punish a lazy student, they risk losing their job. So the remaining teachers are those who let students be lazy and entitled. And nobody learns anything. Public education was a mistake; get everyone back to the fields and the factories.

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Logic and Reason
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

TL;DR: lazy and racist student decides to game the system to pass a class he should have actually failed, all while sounding like a pretentious asshat in the process.

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Carol Emory
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When I took Finite Math in college, the professor that taught it spent the first two days taking role and reading straight out of the book. When taking role, he never once looked up. It could have been the same student answering "here" and he would have never known. Questions from students were answered with "just read the book." I got a bad feeling and withdrew from the class. A friend stayed behind and told me nearly the whole class failed the first test. i encouraged her to talk to the chair. A group of them went. Turned out the professor had undiagnosed Alzheimer's and was doing the problems backwards. All of the students got a pass and were offered the chance to take the class again from a different prof for free for a letter grade. He died six months after he was forced to retire.

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Earl Grey
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had a similar experience in grad school, only in my case it was undiagnosed Parkinson’s Disease that was the root cause of the professor’s unfortunate issues.

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Jo Choto
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am so lucky. My worst university educators were pretty good, maybe a bit amusing, and my best ones were inspirational in many different ways and had a profound effect on my life and my academic path and career path. Feel so sorry for all the kids that are short changed.

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Demi Zwaan
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How does it even get this far? We have reports to show all kind of things, including average grades per class/teacher . Management would step in when a teacher's class has significantly worse grades than everyone else's before any student could even complain.

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No Fox Given
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Students deserve to be taught by people that are passionate about teaching, to encourage and grow their students so they are able to pass. Once that spark goes, you’re definitely in the wrong job.

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Johnny
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This doesn't sound like a great outcome - sounds like the poster got his grade fixed, which is good, but the professor is still teaching the class in question, but now instead of failing anyone, he's passing them all regardless of performance or whether they know the material (and they probably don't, given his poor teaching style), which is arguably worse.

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shep ona
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

OP can't use "whom" or "whose" correctly, and wants to blame instructors? There are some bad profs our there, but maybe try being a better student, too.

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Random Anon
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There has always been a gap between pure puritan academics and the actual application in the industries. The main problem is some of these professors have never worked in the industries that applied their disciplines.

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StellaLehggs
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had a teacher in my third year ( of a 4 year program) who EVERYONE hated. He was a hardass, and one time literally stood at the front of the room and berated us after everyone was done showing their projects. He yelled at us about how shitty our projects were as a class and how disappointed he was and how he expected us to do better this far in our program. He caused one of the most dedicated and talented students to basically have a mental breakdown after that class. I saw her in the hallway during our break and she looked like she'd been crying. I went home later and cried. Someone else switched to a different program. A year from graduating. In my senior year, I had some elective classes with some of the juniors, and they hated him too.

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Kiwii Stone
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My dissertation tutor didn't like it when I refused to let him write it for me. He ignored my emails and calls for the entire semester. Apparently, it's a regular thing for him. I dropped out and retook the year, this time I got the department head and she was amazing. Shocking how often this happens though

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Minnie-me
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

dang, I can think of a couple of professors now when I was an undergrad that needed this treatment.

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SykesDaMan
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's a great revenge story. Nothing to say about that. But I couldn't get into it, because of the name he gave to the teacher: I'm a basketball fan and Dr J is the embodiment of cool in the basketball world! 162481521-...581d29.jpg 162481521-613b7bf581d29.jpg

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Rob Woodman
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Dr J was the name of the beloved old family dr who saw 3 generations of my family—because his full name was quite the mouth full. He’d emigrated from India to England and from there to the US.

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Faith Hurst
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This sounds like a racist a-hole getting upset that none of the students did sh!y and then didn't get credit. So tired of lazy.

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Russell Ellwardt
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nice to hear that the other professors supported you. Hereabouts, no matter how much they'd despise each other, no professor would lift a finger to support a student against a colleague. You know, one crow won't peck out another crow's eye, as a German saying declares.

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Sabrina Longo
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Had a s%$t professor. She felt the real way to learn is to do your own research. Then refused to explain what you had done wrong or why the grade was given. So doesn't teach and doesn't correct. A seven page papper due each week. One was to diagnose a character with a disorder. Despite a seven page explanation, with comparisons using examples of a characters behavior with the medical disorder she didn't like it because 'it was not a disorder from the medical web page she had given us'. She thought dementia wasn't on there but it was and I emailed her a direct link to its page. She followed up with something like 'don't care the grade stays'. Then we were suppose to write a paragraph response on someone else's papper. But it was due the same day as the papper so often times it was 11:30 and im waiting for someone else to submit. Yeah, of course it's not going to be good ! I had 20 minutes to read a 7 page paper and write a paragraph. Complained but they didn't care they already had my $

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Ivana
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Always look up reviews on professors. If it takes you an extra semester or two to graduate because you are picky with professors, so be it. It is your grade and your money. This is one of the biggest investments you will ever make in your life. You will be paying off those classes well after your house is paid off so do yourself a solid and research the hell out of professors before signing up for a class. I always heavily researched my professors, it pays off.

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Parmeisan
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This reminds me of a similar situation that I was in. I had passed the class, but I was confused about how the grade had been calculated. The published criteria, which was otherwise quite detailed, had marked down something like 50% of the grade for our group project, some % of that for the written report, some % for the presentation, but no indication about % for the peer-rating that we'd been asked to provide and which the prof had indicated was quite important. So I went to chat with him and discovered that actually, your grade for the class was calculated as described in the syllabus AND THEN MULTIPLIED BY YOUR PEER RATING. That is to say, that if you had achieved precisely 70% in all assignments, the exam, and the group project, and your unknowing peers had quite reasonably given you a 7/10 (or mathematically, 0.7) on your contribution to the project... well, you'd fail the class with a 49%. This scheme was unknown to anybody until after the class was over and all grades assigned.

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Parmeisan
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't remember what my grade was otherwise, but it's kind of impossible for this insane scheme to NOT negatively impact a grade. And I had given 5/10 to one of my teammates, who to be fair had done virtually nothing all semester - but I didn't want to be single-handedly responsible for him failing. I wrote a letter to the prof detailing my concerns about his scheme, but he never replied - I found out later he had left for sabbatical shortly after submitting the grades. After a week or two, I forwarded the letter to his superiors. Afterwards I found out that somebody else had also discovered this & there was a petition too that had made the rounds. At any rate, my university had a clear policy that I discovered (because I *knew* this had to be against some rule somewhere) that at least 50% of the grade had to be based on ...if memory serves... something along the lines of "50% of the grade must be based on reproducible material" aka written, not presented - can be appealed.

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Sam Yobado
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My brother had a teacher like this in his last year in high school. It was calculus and my brother is very smart but was failing her class. He dropped it late instead of failing, this left him with an incomplete on his transcript which looked bad, and a problem. Calculus was required for his desired university program, and she was the only calculus teacher at our school. The school agreed to allowed him to take the same course by mail (it was pre internet), but they would only remove the original incomplete from his transcript if his new grade was vastly different than the 45% he was achieving. He got 96% in the mail course, and you should have seen the smile on his face the day he got to discuss his results with the principle.

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Chucky Cheezburger
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Damn...Teachers like these, along with stupidly high tuition, seem like such a waste. If someone wants to learn something for a career,teach them the stuff they paid out a metric crap ton of money to learn. This is going to sound bad, but Im so glad that I didnt go to college.Say what you will about earning potential and getting a good job, but we get by just fine with no student loan debt and enough left over after bills to save some.

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Lyone Fein
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As a former professor, I agree. People go to college for many of the wrong reasons. These days, a four year degree is not much use in the real world. So, unless you are planning on professional school afterwards (medical, law, business) or you want to get a higher degree in the sciences, education, etc. I would recommend technical school and/or community college for most people.

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Demongrrrrl
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

At my school, students fill out an evaluation of the professor at the end of the semester. One of my profs smugly said, "It doesn't matter what you write because I have tenure." I was relating this to a friend and the department chair overheard me. He said, "Really? We'll see about that." I transferred to a different school so I don't know what happened next.

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Shon
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Getting STUDENTS to evaluate PROFESSORS is one of the dumbest things ever to happen to the school system. Professors aren't a customer service; they aren't chefs or baristas or store clerks. They shouldn't get yelp reviews. No, scratch that. Current professors -are- a customer service; they don't exist to teach, but only to coddle students into feeling important and smart while milking their money.

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Andy Acceber
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No one here pointed out the fact that professors don't "give grades." Students earn them. Sure, it's bad that the teacher wasn't showing up to class or office hours, and it's definitely bad that the student doesn't understand how the grades are figured. But it's not good for this professor to just "pass" all his students either. If you learn the material, you pass. If you don't, you fail. That's how college classes work. Usually, failing a class isn't the end. It's an expensive lesson, but you'll just need to retake the class until you've sufficiently learned the material.

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Ryan Deschanel
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's a great story! All those tenured icompetent lazy bullies need to face the consequences of their actions, or else they will just keep ruining innocent people's lives forever.

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Effin Fred
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Lame. Failure of a student. A student without integrity.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was doing a Computer science degree and they couldn't tell me why Algebra and Statistics was in any way relevant to computer science (programming). If i hadn't dropped out there was Calculus in my future. Again, why? I think there are just some irrelevant subjects that are taught to help keep a dead subject alive. Even if it is relevant, who doesn't go on the internet to find the answer for algebra problems? I failed one subject by 3 marks even though I passed everything else.

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Whitney Gal
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If you don’t see how math and statistical theories are applicable to computer programming, then it’s probably best that you changed career paths.

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Whitney Gal
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I’m not sure why the OP felt the need to discuss the professor’s race. It’s not critical to the story, and there’s some definite anger underlying that rant about “race-hustlers.” You can stand up for yourself without being hateful and angry.

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Warrior Mama
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You beat me to it! Also no need to describe how the person was "not masculine enough." A complaint about the teaching/grade is totally fair; criticism about a person's attributes is just mean and unnecessary.

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JayWantsACat
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

WTF does the professor having an Asian accent have to do with anything? F**k off with that s**t. Also, it's pretty telling that this asshole states 'racist' instances were 'nonsense' and 'bigoted' in of themselves, whines about 'race hustlers', etc. ...while being a racist piece of s**t. He's one step away from ranting about 'reverese racism' and 'white genocide'. Why the f**k was this even published here?

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Jaime
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I didn’t notice that at first, but yeah… there is a lot of thinly veiled racism in there

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TheDivineMsM
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

For as much $ as we pay for tuition in the United States, we deserve teachers that teach and are as invested in the class as the students are.

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Lyone Fein
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Your tuition money goes to pay administrators much more than it does to professors. Unfortunately, most professors are paid less than many high school teachers these days. Perhaps this is one reason that teaching quality has declined?

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Effin Fred
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sounds like it was written by a lazy,racist, student. This is a part of life, you racist-pos-lazy-slacker-student-who-deserved-to-fail!

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Johnny
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If his story is true, then he didn't deserve to fail. I had a similar experience once, along with a couple dozen other students - we convinced the dean to let us late drop a Calculus course due to poor performance on the part of the teacher even though we were past the drop deadline - he'd had many no-shows starting midway through the semester, I went from a B to a D and was completely lost, his tests didn't match what we were doing in homework, and many others in the class had the same problem. Rumor had it that he was going through some personal stuff. The dean let all of us drop the course so we could re-take it the next semester. I got an "A" the second time.

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Freddy Martin
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

For the person who's professor wouldn't run code because it could infect their computer, the professor should've been using a virtual machine if he was worried about that

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Lyone Fein
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am a former professor and I am horrified by these stories. While it is true that many students come to college unprepared for the level of work and discipline required, I have never encountered the kind of laziness on the part of faculty described here. I don't know how these people even made it through grad school. These are exactly the kinds of people that are supposed to be weeded out by both the rigors of graduate study, and the absurdly long hiring process for professors. As for harsh grading : It is crucial to maintain academic standards. But if they are arbitrary, they are meaningless.

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Earl Grey
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You were exceptionally lucky. I was with a major US university for 20+ years, first as a grad student, then staff, then faculty, then administrator. I had a 360-degree vantage point during that time and encountered quite a few instances of laziness, incompetence, fraud and criminal behavior. Professors are just people and their population exhibits the same bell curve as any other group. There were a few superstars, but also faculty who were alcoholics, or whose marriages were falling apart because they were having affairs with students or their lab techs, or who didn’t stay current in their fields, or who were burned up and just checked out. Oftentimes grad students graded papers, not the faculty. I concluded that the root cause was the way faculty positions got budgeted and staffed. The university had a time limit in which to fill vacant positions and often had to settle on the 3rd, 4th or 5th-best candidate. Hopefully things are better now at my Alma Mater.

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Shon
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Alternate headline: "lazy, racist student DEMANDS to pass the exam without studying". And this is the real reason the school system is failing. Students now think their scores are owed to them, they do not want to put the hard work, and the worst part: they are right, because they can get a professor fired easily if they hissy fit enough. This is because 100 lazy students bring more $$$$$$ to schools than 10 students who actually work hard. So teachers can no longer punish students. Students know that, so when a teacher tries to punish a lazy student, they risk losing their job. So the remaining teachers are those who let students be lazy and entitled. And nobody learns anything. Public education was a mistake; get everyone back to the fields and the factories.

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Logic and Reason
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

TL;DR: lazy and racist student decides to game the system to pass a class he should have actually failed, all while sounding like a pretentious asshat in the process.

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Carol Emory
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When I took Finite Math in college, the professor that taught it spent the first two days taking role and reading straight out of the book. When taking role, he never once looked up. It could have been the same student answering "here" and he would have never known. Questions from students were answered with "just read the book." I got a bad feeling and withdrew from the class. A friend stayed behind and told me nearly the whole class failed the first test. i encouraged her to talk to the chair. A group of them went. Turned out the professor had undiagnosed Alzheimer's and was doing the problems backwards. All of the students got a pass and were offered the chance to take the class again from a different prof for free for a letter grade. He died six months after he was forced to retire.

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Earl Grey
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had a similar experience in grad school, only in my case it was undiagnosed Parkinson’s Disease that was the root cause of the professor’s unfortunate issues.

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Jo Choto
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am so lucky. My worst university educators were pretty good, maybe a bit amusing, and my best ones were inspirational in many different ways and had a profound effect on my life and my academic path and career path. Feel so sorry for all the kids that are short changed.

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Demi Zwaan
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How does it even get this far? We have reports to show all kind of things, including average grades per class/teacher . Management would step in when a teacher's class has significantly worse grades than everyone else's before any student could even complain.

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No Fox Given
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Students deserve to be taught by people that are passionate about teaching, to encourage and grow their students so they are able to pass. Once that spark goes, you’re definitely in the wrong job.

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Johnny
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This doesn't sound like a great outcome - sounds like the poster got his grade fixed, which is good, but the professor is still teaching the class in question, but now instead of failing anyone, he's passing them all regardless of performance or whether they know the material (and they probably don't, given his poor teaching style), which is arguably worse.

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shep ona
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

OP can't use "whom" or "whose" correctly, and wants to blame instructors? There are some bad profs our there, but maybe try being a better student, too.

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Random Anon
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There has always been a gap between pure puritan academics and the actual application in the industries. The main problem is some of these professors have never worked in the industries that applied their disciplines.

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StellaLehggs
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had a teacher in my third year ( of a 4 year program) who EVERYONE hated. He was a hardass, and one time literally stood at the front of the room and berated us after everyone was done showing their projects. He yelled at us about how shitty our projects were as a class and how disappointed he was and how he expected us to do better this far in our program. He caused one of the most dedicated and talented students to basically have a mental breakdown after that class. I saw her in the hallway during our break and she looked like she'd been crying. I went home later and cried. Someone else switched to a different program. A year from graduating. In my senior year, I had some elective classes with some of the juniors, and they hated him too.

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Kiwii Stone
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My dissertation tutor didn't like it when I refused to let him write it for me. He ignored my emails and calls for the entire semester. Apparently, it's a regular thing for him. I dropped out and retook the year, this time I got the department head and she was amazing. Shocking how often this happens though

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Minnie-me
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

dang, I can think of a couple of professors now when I was an undergrad that needed this treatment.

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SykesDaMan
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's a great revenge story. Nothing to say about that. But I couldn't get into it, because of the name he gave to the teacher: I'm a basketball fan and Dr J is the embodiment of cool in the basketball world! 162481521-...581d29.jpg 162481521-613b7bf581d29.jpg

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Rob Woodman
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Dr J was the name of the beloved old family dr who saw 3 generations of my family—because his full name was quite the mouth full. He’d emigrated from India to England and from there to the US.

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Faith Hurst
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This sounds like a racist a-hole getting upset that none of the students did sh!y and then didn't get credit. So tired of lazy.

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Russell Ellwardt
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nice to hear that the other professors supported you. Hereabouts, no matter how much they'd despise each other, no professor would lift a finger to support a student against a colleague. You know, one crow won't peck out another crow's eye, as a German saying declares.

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Sabrina Longo
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Had a s%$t professor. She felt the real way to learn is to do your own research. Then refused to explain what you had done wrong or why the grade was given. So doesn't teach and doesn't correct. A seven page papper due each week. One was to diagnose a character with a disorder. Despite a seven page explanation, with comparisons using examples of a characters behavior with the medical disorder she didn't like it because 'it was not a disorder from the medical web page she had given us'. She thought dementia wasn't on there but it was and I emailed her a direct link to its page. She followed up with something like 'don't care the grade stays'. Then we were suppose to write a paragraph response on someone else's papper. But it was due the same day as the papper so often times it was 11:30 and im waiting for someone else to submit. Yeah, of course it's not going to be good ! I had 20 minutes to read a 7 page paper and write a paragraph. Complained but they didn't care they already had my $

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Ivana
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Always look up reviews on professors. If it takes you an extra semester or two to graduate because you are picky with professors, so be it. It is your grade and your money. This is one of the biggest investments you will ever make in your life. You will be paying off those classes well after your house is paid off so do yourself a solid and research the hell out of professors before signing up for a class. I always heavily researched my professors, it pays off.

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Parmeisan
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This reminds me of a similar situation that I was in. I had passed the class, but I was confused about how the grade had been calculated. The published criteria, which was otherwise quite detailed, had marked down something like 50% of the grade for our group project, some % of that for the written report, some % for the presentation, but no indication about % for the peer-rating that we'd been asked to provide and which the prof had indicated was quite important. So I went to chat with him and discovered that actually, your grade for the class was calculated as described in the syllabus AND THEN MULTIPLIED BY YOUR PEER RATING. That is to say, that if you had achieved precisely 70% in all assignments, the exam, and the group project, and your unknowing peers had quite reasonably given you a 7/10 (or mathematically, 0.7) on your contribution to the project... well, you'd fail the class with a 49%. This scheme was unknown to anybody until after the class was over and all grades assigned.

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Parmeisan
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't remember what my grade was otherwise, but it's kind of impossible for this insane scheme to NOT negatively impact a grade. And I had given 5/10 to one of my teammates, who to be fair had done virtually nothing all semester - but I didn't want to be single-handedly responsible for him failing. I wrote a letter to the prof detailing my concerns about his scheme, but he never replied - I found out later he had left for sabbatical shortly after submitting the grades. After a week or two, I forwarded the letter to his superiors. Afterwards I found out that somebody else had also discovered this & there was a petition too that had made the rounds. At any rate, my university had a clear policy that I discovered (because I *knew* this had to be against some rule somewhere) that at least 50% of the grade had to be based on ...if memory serves... something along the lines of "50% of the grade must be based on reproducible material" aka written, not presented - can be appealed.

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Sam Yobado
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My brother had a teacher like this in his last year in high school. It was calculus and my brother is very smart but was failing her class. He dropped it late instead of failing, this left him with an incomplete on his transcript which looked bad, and a problem. Calculus was required for his desired university program, and she was the only calculus teacher at our school. The school agreed to allowed him to take the same course by mail (it was pre internet), but they would only remove the original incomplete from his transcript if his new grade was vastly different than the 45% he was achieving. He got 96% in the mail course, and you should have seen the smile on his face the day he got to discuss his results with the principle.

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Chucky Cheezburger
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Damn...Teachers like these, along with stupidly high tuition, seem like such a waste. If someone wants to learn something for a career,teach them the stuff they paid out a metric crap ton of money to learn. This is going to sound bad, but Im so glad that I didnt go to college.Say what you will about earning potential and getting a good job, but we get by just fine with no student loan debt and enough left over after bills to save some.

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Lyone Fein
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As a former professor, I agree. People go to college for many of the wrong reasons. These days, a four year degree is not much use in the real world. So, unless you are planning on professional school afterwards (medical, law, business) or you want to get a higher degree in the sciences, education, etc. I would recommend technical school and/or community college for most people.

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Demongrrrrl
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

At my school, students fill out an evaluation of the professor at the end of the semester. One of my profs smugly said, "It doesn't matter what you write because I have tenure." I was relating this to a friend and the department chair overheard me. He said, "Really? We'll see about that." I transferred to a different school so I don't know what happened next.

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Shon
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Getting STUDENTS to evaluate PROFESSORS is one of the dumbest things ever to happen to the school system. Professors aren't a customer service; they aren't chefs or baristas or store clerks. They shouldn't get yelp reviews. No, scratch that. Current professors -are- a customer service; they don't exist to teach, but only to coddle students into feeling important and smart while milking their money.

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Andy Acceber
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No one here pointed out the fact that professors don't "give grades." Students earn them. Sure, it's bad that the teacher wasn't showing up to class or office hours, and it's definitely bad that the student doesn't understand how the grades are figured. But it's not good for this professor to just "pass" all his students either. If you learn the material, you pass. If you don't, you fail. That's how college classes work. Usually, failing a class isn't the end. It's an expensive lesson, but you'll just need to retake the class until you've sufficiently learned the material.

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Ryan Deschanel
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's a great story! All those tenured icompetent lazy bullies need to face the consequences of their actions, or else they will just keep ruining innocent people's lives forever.

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Effin Fred
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Lame. Failure of a student. A student without integrity.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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Duncan
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was doing a Computer science degree and they couldn't tell me why Algebra and Statistics was in any way relevant to computer science (programming). If i hadn't dropped out there was Calculus in my future. Again, why? I think there are just some irrelevant subjects that are taught to help keep a dead subject alive. Even if it is relevant, who doesn't go on the internet to find the answer for algebra problems? I failed one subject by 3 marks even though I passed everything else.

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Whitney Gal
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If you don’t see how math and statistical theories are applicable to computer programming, then it’s probably best that you changed career paths.

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