Oh for frick’s sake!
Wed, March 11, 2009 at 4:56 PM Look out people! I’m on my high horse. Which, by the way, sounds like a much better place to be than on my low horse. I mean, what exactly would I be doing on my low horse anyway??
Here’s the deal—I called one of my professors a dipshit. Not to her face (but possibly only because my classes are online). But I did say it out loud, to myself, and it did feel pretty good.
My beef with this professor is that she assigns PLENTY of reading, and by plenty I mean way more than I can finish in several sittings on the toilet, and then her meager contribution to our learning process consists of the following:
- her commentary—this is just a stupid outline of all the damn chapters she makes us read.
- a written assignment—this consists solely of questions taken from the chapter review questions in the textbook, ver-fucking-batim.
- an online group discussion assignment—again, this is based on shit she lifted from the textbook.
Holy hell people!! If all I wanted was to get me some straight from the book learnin’ without any other meaningful contribution from an instructor I coulda done that without a student loan and the craptastic lifestyle of a hermit!
Seriously! What the hell is she doing that I couldn’t have done for myself? I mean other than answering student questions in an untimely manner, handing out grades on shit we’ve regurgitated from a book, and creating a whole new expectation for what an answer should be on an assignment question AFTER I had handed in my answers and then dock my points cuz I didn’t answer according to the NEW expectations!!!
Just a sec, I need to spew some vile shit. . . %$^%$#% $#&*()&*%&&*%^ $%#@!^ &(*&** (*&^&%$ %$ %^&^&*&*(&!!!!!
Wow! My high horse and I feel much better now. Thank you.
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Reader Comments (13)
I have no faith in our educational system anymore. It's a joke!
I don't get it either.. teachers, just don't know how to teach. They get paid to show up and blather.. In some cases don't grade accoring to whether the the student knows the material, but instead grades on "attempt to complete" How in the f*^*&%^$%^ do they expect anyone to learn anything.
Well if nothing else.. you got a nice horseback ride.. I just hope you remembered to duck all of the pwer lines and other high sh*t
Man, you rode that one hard. Don't hang it up wet!
I'm glad you got it off your chest (or horse's chest) though.
Some people can't teach and some can. But the ones that can't are a real pain in the butt.
That's a good looking horse ya got there.
"and by plenty I mean way more than I can finish in several sittings on the toilet"
Ha!
LMBBO
And maybe your teacher has great "faith" in the book?
Yeah, lame.....just like your prof!
Want me to drop kick her for you? A low horse is one of those big huge pads I was trained on when I first got my period.
At least now you know that you don't have to really read it all..
Just get the Cliff's Notes version, and your study time is cut in HALF!
You can thank me later by mailing off the tuition cash you save next Semester!
so back to the low horse/high horse thing...
if a midget is riding on a pony, would that be a low horse? or would that still be a high horse scenario?
You mean you want critical thinking and analysis from a teacher? The HELL you say! :)
Your tale sounds like my 8th grade social studies class where our fresh-out-of-school teacher, Mr. Touey, made us copy definitions word for word as he wrote them on the blackboard of different areas in history and then we had to memorize them and write them EXACTLY the same way on our tests. It was no fun at all, and we learned nothing.
I shouldn't really get started on today's educational system, so I won't say much, just a touch.
The other day my daughter who is in grade 5, brought home an assignment she was working on. It was the rough draft which her teacher had allegedly corrected. She changed a perfectly understandable and properly written sentence into something that no one could make sense out of. Not only that, but words that were supposed to be capitalized, she changed to lowercase. I understand that my daughter isn't exactly the greatest of spellers, but for the teacher to correct a mistakenly spelled word incorrectly, now that is just sad.
I re-proofread the assignment, re-corrected it, pointed out other errors the teacher totally missed, and had my daughter re-write it. It's getting to the point where I'm willing to say that I'd sooner homeschool my kid than have her in public schooling!
Did you spew that "vile shit" while still sitting on the toilet?
Uh, I know how you feel. It's not one or two lecturers I've walked out on thinking: "Stop wasting my f***g time!" Eventually I walked out of the school thinking "Stop wasting my f***g time!" No degree would ever be worth all that wasted time when I could just as easily google it. Everything I have learned since I left junior high I've had to teach myself. Well, apart from 3 or 4 words I learned during English classes of a teacher who couldn't pronounce "glamorous" even remotely correctly. Geesh. LESSONS are a waste of time, they could just give you a list of books and tell when the exam is going to be and leave it at that.