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Teachers Be Crazy
BeoPuppy:
I choose number 4, for most bat-shit insane. Though number 6 isn't far behind in that race.
Blackjoker:
--- Quote from: BeoPuppy on 14 Jun 2011, 04:23 ---I choose number 4, for most bat-shit insane. Though number 6 isn't far behind in that race.
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Yeah that was not a fun day, the teacher where the glue incident happened got me to the nurse quickly, the guy who did it to me was expelled about two weeks later after he tried to bring a gun to school. It was not the teacher herself that did the glue to the hands thing (or himself in the case of the tech-ed teacher where the gluing incident happened). The teacher argued that my hands looked like they could still hold a pencil and that she wasn't going to just give me a pass since it wasn't bad enough for me to be sent home. In that view I guess I can sort of see her logic, but it didn't make it any less problematic, then again I didn't care much anyway since I was barely passing the class as is.
Number 6 was...yeah she was a real piece of work. She did a little patrol walk while she spoke, I think to make sure that none of us had tape recorders or anything else out that could record what she said, this was back during the infancy of cell phones so all the fun stuff where you can just rig them to record what's said wasn't available. I haven't checked to see what's become of her, though I did tell the department head and was told that there were other complaints about her but that they couldn't take action without evidence and when I mentioned the recording ban the department head cringed. My hope is that someone with a cellphone caught one of her rants.
Zingoleb:
--- Quote from: Blackjoker on 13 Jun 2011, 22:26 ---5) In College I was in a humanities course where the professor (oh and this is a non religious school btw) spent most of the classes talking alternately about what a wonderful and kind and great person she was and all that and how Christianity was the only true religion and any other religion in the world was made up by demons. Also that all Muslims needed to publically apologize to the citizens of the united states and that all atheists are amoral monsters who would murder the moment they got the chance.
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Oh my god you were taught by my mother
number four terrified me until I realized a student did the glue gunning, not a teacher.
Barmymoo:
I don't know, my first secondary school had stuff like that happen and the second one sometimes did. At the first one, one of the teachers snapped and started hitting a student (who I would also have quite happily hit, and did in fact slap in the face once - she was at my primary school too and the fact that I remember her a decade later is testament to how much of a misery she made my life). I vaguely remember a group of us going to the head of year to complain about him and I think he was fired in the end. From talking to the kids in my church choir, I think there's always a teacher in every school that snaps with the stress. There's been at least one in every school I've been to. Not an easy job.
Akima:
--- Quote from: Blackjoker on 13 Jun 2011, 22:26 ---6) In a different college, after transferring from the former one, I was in a political philosophy class where one student had to miss a week because her mother had died and she went back to attend the funeral. The professor does not accept papers by email. Well, the time she (the student) was gone the papers were due for an assignment, she got it back as soon as she returned, the professor told her "You get half credit, and be grateful that I'm generous enough to offer that' in front of the class. Oh, also if someones cell phone went off she would dock everones grade 5 points, and she did a random spin wheel to determine if there would be a pop quiz, and if she felt we went too long sans quiz she would say 'too bad, you get one anyway' the last one is more weird quirk, but still.
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Apart from the professor humiliating the student publicly, none of this strikes me as all that heinous. When I was at uni, the basic policy was that ill-health of the student (backed up by a doctor's certificate) was the only acceptable excuse/reason for late submission of work. Most lecturers would cut some slack if they were approached about a problem before the deadline for submission, but were pretty flint-hearted if presented with a fait accompli after it. Mostly you were expected to put your work first.
On the mobile phone thing, students who are too lazy, selfish, or careless to turn off or silence their phones before class are very annoying, and your professor had obviously decided to recruit the power of peer-pressure since her own words had presumably been ignored in the past. Did it work?
Random pop-quizes? Nothing crazy with that at all. Spinning a dial is a bit theatrical, but many good teachers are.
If I'd been the professor, I would have covered these points with my students at the beginning of the semester. Beyond that, college students are supposed to be adults. As one of my profs put it on the first day of my freshman year, "I am not your mother. I am not your friend. I am not here to make your life easier. I am here to see that you master the course material, or fail you if you don't." He was actually one of my best lecturers, but I would not have dared to submit work to him late.
The other instances were pretty crazy, and the hot glue burns case verges on abusive. I mean, failure to treat burns, never mind the maths test thing?
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