Monday, January 30, 2012

Jessica rants... once again

Today, my teacher decided to start the class by asking "who read the material?" and some of us nodded, but none of us raised our hands. This is within minutes of entering the classroom, without even starting the lecture. Our teacher immediately started bitching, saying, "Well, I guess we can cancel class then, because no one will participate and no one read." Excuse me?

I didn't read the chapter material, but I read the articles she posted. I, as well as other students in the class, like to go into lecture and read the chapters afterwards, because why will I trudge through the bullshit, when during lecture, she will trim the fat and discuss what's actually important.

I have other classes, besides hers. I'm not going to devote my free time for reading her textbook. I'm just not going to. I don't read ahead for ANY of my classes, because I just don't see the point.

But this teacher. This teacher LEFT the classroom and came back in 5 minutes, went through the powerpoint like a smartass, and then said we were done in less than 30 minutes.

Then, said teacher decided to lecture us on how it's disrespectful to come to class unprepared and without having read the material, saying how it's unprofessional, and so on and so forth.

I'm sorry.

Once again, I seemed to have forgotten that my study habits affect your perception of the level of respect I have for you, because that makes sense. If I choose not to read, it's because I don't want to.

I forgot I was attending college, where I am, supposedly, allowed the freedom of choice when it comes to doing ANYTHING.

I don't understand.

If I choose not to study or read, that's my decision and how dare you penalize me for making that choice. Example: if I get all A's on all of my tests, why should it matter that I don't do the homework? It should be obvious I know what I'm doing, considering I'm getting A's.

Why are we treating college students, juniors and seniors in this class, like we need to be baby-sat?

Why are we, students who either have loans, scholarships, or are paying up front for education, dealing with teachers who don't do their job?

I'm not getting paid to sit at home and read your textbook, but you're getting paid to lecture. You're getting paid to teach and when you pull bullshit stunts like this where you walk out of the classroom... that's not professional.

I wish every teacher could be like Southard who taught Stats. He didn't take attendance; he didn't give a shit if you were there or not; he didn't bitch about not reading; if you didn't show up to class and you had a question about something on his exams, he just told you, "tough luck".

If I was a teacher and I had students who didn't read, but showed up to lecture anyway, I would feel pleased. Sure, it's not good if you wanted to do some Q&A sessions or something... but the students took the time to attend lecture to listen to you. These lectures are no joke - they are long and drawn out, often on material we really don't care about, because we've either already learned it or because it's just boring. We go anyway.

Shouldn't that already be proof of respect?

It's just bullshit. All of it. I'm so glad I'm a mix between mom and dad, because otherwise, I would have spoken my mind to her face and probably get in trouble with the program. At least I inherited my conscientiousness from my mom, because that lady would have had a whole lot of Jessica attitude to deal with.

2 comments:

  1. Ugh. I have mad respect. I wouldn't have been able to contain myself.

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  2. I was right in front too and I just stared at her thinking, "REALLY." Tito's expression of "are you kidding me?" is the perfect example of how I felt facial expression wise :P

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