“You’re All Adults, Not Children, You Can Hold It”: 30 Times People Realized They Needed To Drop A Class Immediately

Finally, a teacher who doesn't think they're above the rules!

My favorite teachers have always been the ones who you could tell was about 1% away from a nervous breakdown and major psychotic break, they have the most meme worthy moments

HAhahaha :')

Econ teachers be crazy

One of the first rules of making a PowerPoint presentation is to keep the text to a minimum - simple bullet points will do. You then verbally elaborate on those when giving the presentation. When there's lots of text people will concentrate on the text and not on you. It also defeats the purpose of a presentation when the same could be achieved through handouts.

I had a teacher who did this, who also PRINTED out all her presentations, ONE SLIDE per page! She said she had to use other teacher's photocopy code to do her printing because she used all her copy allowance, and it was only first term :). I have to give her credit though, the slides were all in dot point format, it's just she didn't elaborate on most of them during the presentation. She did that during other parts of the lesson and those slides were great for studying for the exams.

This happens at work too and it drives me insane. I can read a lot quicker than you can talk - give me information I haven't just read off the screen

My American History professor would tell us highlight from here to here, here to here, etc., etc., etc. That was it. That's what was always on the tests. Had to take him for two semesters. It was awful.

Even worse if they repeatedly mispronounce words and feel the need to go on lengthy tangents about dumb thungs

That sounds so scammy...Students should be able to get their tuition payed back to them for the class...straight out of the profs bank account.

And I thought it was a bit of a grab when my professor made us all buy the textbook that he authored himself...

Teachers did this occasionally when I went to uni. We always found the books 2nd hand or at the library and we copied them. Not 100% legal but it saved us so much money!

Yes.

When I used to teach - I would give a pre-test before the final. It would be almost identical to the final. I would tell the students that this is actually a test for me, to make sure I’ve covered everything before the final and the pre-test didn’t count towards their grade at all.

Thankfully never met a teacher like that. In fact one teacher was practically crying because she spent a whole lesson almost, one on one with me and I still couldn't understand surds!

YES. I would thrilled when my entire class earned A-range grades

The floor effect

"No one will get an A in this course because I am not capable of teaching people that well"

I had ONE class where the prof said this, and I dropped it. Once we started having online course reviews available, I saw that I was far from the only one. It had the highest drop-out rate -- almost double -- of any other class at school. Learning is important, and grades CAN be a false construct, but also? Some of us need 'em for grad school and jobs.

HATE this. I would never do that. I had semesters where a full class of students earned As

I kind of did this as a teacher. I told kids grades were between me and them and to expect a lot of C's which ment I was perfectly satisfied with their work. Anyone capable of getting better grades would be moved to a faster paced class. I did reassure them though on report cards anyone averaging a C in class would get an A as I knew parents expected A's if the kid was working fine.

Relatable, actually. Deeply relatable.

Wow. My art unit the teacher said something basically along the lines of, no one can really draw and that's okay, it's not required. Then his lessons showed us that we could often achieve more than we expected.

would have grabbed on right then and left. if ur already expecting me to hate ur class enough to have presigned forms... bye

I love when adults try to tell other adults they aren't allowed to pee.... I once asked my friend with whom we were driving to pull over as I needed to pee.... he said you can wait till we get home.... then he had to pull over because he was bleeding and dizzy all of a sudden to quote John pinette rip

If we are adults and not kids, then we're old enough to not need a bathroom pass or permission for a basic human function.

Every so often, we'll have an issue that starts off innocuous, but needs managing. One term, I had two kids that brought in booze in their portable coffee cups. If it had turned into a bigger problem, I might have had to say "No outside beverages." Yes, adults should be able to have drinks, but sometimes we have to manage things to keep the class on track, because 28 other people also paid to be there, and you're taking away from their educations.

This is why I never asked to use the bathroom in classes, I just got up and walked out as quietly as I could so as not to disrupt anyone. Got in trouble for it a bunch of times in high school, but by the end of my senior year, 3 of my teachers had made it their policy that any student could just get up and go to the bathroom without asking.

I can understand if no one can leave during an exam - but otherwise, "p**s off."

Illegal in many countries. Once notification has been given that a student or employee has a disability or illness that requires accommodations to be made, it is illegal not to provide them.

Nooooo! That is so sad :(

That's terrible. I once had a student who had to use binoculars to see the blackboard from the first row. We all made sure he had a seat front and middle.

Not so much a deaf student, but there was this one guy in my elementary school/high school who had very poor eyesight, and needed a digital copy of the notes + a computer in class to be able to learn and participate. He's a very smart guy too, and every teacher was allowed the computer.

No, it's best for me to sit further away, like in another classroom, with another teacher.

My chem teacher, on the first day of school, said, "I will not give you homework on Fridays or anything that is due the next day. I'll give you as little homework as possible; you have seven other classes, after all." He's my favorite.

EXACTLY! My maths teacher is like this and I hate her :( also she so obviously favours another class it hurts

Grrr... I had enough of that in high school! I'd drop a class before i'd get that involved.

welp... thats how the cavemen did it...

Yes, guys, we HAVE to know how to do things without laptops sometimes. Obv, there are exceptions for accessibility issues, but this isn't toxic. This is learning multiple methods. You'll be glad when you have to problem-solve a tech issue and all the tech is down.

Absolutely normal at least in the late 90's, but then again back then as a TA I had to lead a practical exercises groups with nothing more than a projector, transparent films and markers in multiple colors. First time having an actual computer in programming practice was an eye opener 😅

They used to *have* to write code by hand just because entering code was a tedious, time consuming process, and computation time was expensive. There was none of this change a little code and run it to see what happens over and over, because it wasn't practical. I think the teaching style of writing code by hand was a hold-over from that era for a long time, and then when things swung the other way, it just became too easy to cheat if you were using a computer.

My intro CS class (Java) was done this way. Class was graded on a bell curve (half would receive a 2.8 or lower grade, half would receive a 2.9 or higher) It was very difficult, but at the end of the quarter, I very much felt that I had earned my grade

Discrimination earns lawsuits. Punish this horrible practice with the hammer of law

This sounds like a firing offence for the teacher.

I once assisted a kid in a lesson in a portocabin which the class had been sent to because the lift was broken so the kid who was in a wheelchair could not get to the usual class. Teacher spent first half of the lesson complaining about 'the whole class suffering because of special treatment' I don't know about the 2nd half, as I took the kid and left. I put in a complaint, but was told to lighten up, it was humour. Following year, I was assigned to a child with serious learning and behavioural problems in that teachers class. She refused to listen to me that he needed to sit with me at the back, saying if he needs special treatment he should be in a special school. So that was how her room got completely smashed up.

Bad question too, as 1984 is famously the book most people lie about claiming to have read it.