Elizabeth N.
Herder of cats
*sigh* So, the center staff are officially on my shit list with their shitty attitudes about what the Evil Awful Professors expect of their poor little darlings in this course. TWO of them took pains to explain to me that Mr. Does Not Know a Syllabus "takes longer to understand things." Um, yeah, I already figured that out from our phone conversation. Don't get me started on why the fuck didn't you bitches drag his ass in for tutoring WEEKS ago.
Then one of them goes off on a tear about how ridiculous it is to expect "these kids" to understand "this stuff" and how the profs should just change the requirements for their little darlings so they can pass and get on with "the important stuff." Um, last time I checked, the ability to read at an adult level, write a comprehensible paragraph, etc. were IMPORTANT. So, too, IMNSHO, is a five-sentences-long understanding of three or four of the basic thought concepts that undergird all of Western thought. (We won't touch the idea that there is more to thinking than Western thought. We gotta start simple here.)
Another one of them was bitching because the Evil Awful Professors did not respond to staff's email requests for information about the course. Um, yeah, well, I would have appreciated the chance to have a talk with them, too, but their stance was that it was the students' responsibility to communicate the clearly-written course requirements theirownselves. I couldn't argue with that
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The OTHER one then reminds me to "not expect too much...." Oh, my.
We shall see if I do this again next semester. Problem is, it pays better than my other on campus options lol.
Then one of them goes off on a tear about how ridiculous it is to expect "these kids" to understand "this stuff" and how the profs should just change the requirements for their little darlings so they can pass and get on with "the important stuff." Um, last time I checked, the ability to read at an adult level, write a comprehensible paragraph, etc. were IMPORTANT. So, too, IMNSHO, is a five-sentences-long understanding of three or four of the basic thought concepts that undergird all of Western thought. (We won't touch the idea that there is more to thinking than Western thought. We gotta start simple here.)
Another one of them was bitching because the Evil Awful Professors did not respond to staff's email requests for information about the course. Um, yeah, well, I would have appreciated the chance to have a talk with them, too, but their stance was that it was the students' responsibility to communicate the clearly-written course requirements theirownselves. I couldn't argue with that
.The OTHER one then reminds me to "not expect too much...." Oh, my.
We shall see if I do this again next semester. Problem is, it pays better than my other on campus options lol.
