Most teachers I had growing up could have been completely absent and I would have gotten the same education, as all they did was recite from the same book/curriculum we had on paper and could read. I only really remember 2 that actually taught. My high school algebra teacher, and my 6th grade drama/choir teacher.
My high school algebra teacher was so bad that she’d start teaching you one thing, get to the end of a problem, and realize she taught it wrong and start over a different way. I got a D in that class. Got an A in algebra 2 with zero increase in effort on my part.
Prof said this in an econ class that like, 25% of students drop after the first exam. Had me sweating balls and was extremely stressed about it.
Turns out my heavily Republican college classmates were just especially stupid when it comes to econ. He was one of the best professors I ever took.
The professors whose classes everyone passes are the ones you learn nothing in.
Or they’re bad at teaching, I’ve had both experiences.
If it’s a low level class, a 100 or 200, it’s probably student ineptitude. If it’s a high level course, I would expect a lot more people to pass. I work in a law school and if we see a lot of students failing one professor, it’s generally a sign that professor has a chip on their shoulder.
This. It’s quite common that first or second semester courses are used to filter out students, but after the second semester that shouldn’t happen.
It’s useful to filter out people early, before significant time and effort was invested (both by the student and the staff), but mass-failing people in later courses is bad design.
*yeah, not yea or nay. It isn’t a vote. You are not only bad at teaching, but bad at writing strips. Buy a dictionary since you lack an education.
YOU WILL BE GRADED ON A CURVE TO CREATE AN EXCUSE FOR MY FAILURES.
Then you all get to hate that one person who already read a 15 year old textbook they found in the trash instead of me, who can’t teach as well as literal garbage!
I had an organic chemistry class in college where the average grade was a C. I was a chemistry major and I passed with a D. A couple of other would-be chemistry majors dropped the class. The professor actually told us that we were the worst group of students he had ever taught (and it was his last class before retirement).
I don’t think he was a bad teacher, because I certainly was a bad student.
Also he talked about the need to cut down on burning fossil fuels, but less due to environmental concerns and more due to the lost opportunity to make plastics and other interesting substances out of them.
love the completely unhinged take of “we need to reduce fossil fuel use so I can use all the crude oil to make weird stuff”
My organic chemistry prof was equally weird about synthesis. But his ego rested on everyone passing, in contrast to the biology prof who failed half the students in her classes. She was the better teacher. I don’t remember much from my second semester of o chem because I didn’t really need to learn anything to get an A, but I have retained quite a lot from her classes
Maybe it’s just chemistry professors. I had one try to expel me for plagiarism because my lab partner and I had the same measurements on our lab reports (no overlap other than the numbers, which weren’t open to a lot of interpretation). You know, because we had the same experiment.
Luckily, part of the process was sitting down with the professor and the head of the department, and as soon as the professor explained what the problem was, the dean rolled his eyes, asked why my professor didn’t even report both of us, and told me someone else in the department would grade my exam, then let me leave.
