The Answers are Fucking no, Just fucking learn, and What the fuck?
Things students have said to me in the last 24 hours:
Could you go over all the terms you’ve used since school started?
(After 30 minutes of covering Buddhism and Buddhist art) Do I need to know any of this for the test?
Hi, I never bought or borrowed or found a used copy or shared the book with anyone. Do you mind telling me all the dates for the images you’ve shown since school started?
Posted by Melissa on September 27th, 2007 under Histoire d'Art
September 27th, 2007 at 2:31 pm
WTF! I’m sorry you have to deal with that!
September 27th, 2007 at 3:02 pm
lol. I got “Do we, like, have to buy all the books?” The REQUIRED books? Why yes, knucklehead, you do!
September 27th, 2007 at 3:22 pm
Yes!
My new answer for these things is: “Well, I’m not your mommy. You decide for yourself if you want to do well.”
September 27th, 2007 at 3:38 pm
hehehe. . . makes me miss the days of hearing what comes out of the mouths of fellow classmates
September 27th, 2007 at 7:12 pm
I know that right now things look pretty bleak, but there is hope. One of my students this semester, who took a course with me last semester, no longer uses apostrophes in every single plural noun in her papers! They…can…learn…
September 27th, 2007 at 9:33 pm
College kids these days are so ill-prepared. See how a ton of Missouri college freshmen are having to take stupid basic courses in order to go back and learn all the shit they were supposed to learn in high school.
Mom and Dad must be proud.
These inept kids are the result of being babied by their parents.
September 28th, 2007 at 7:53 am
I “Argh” for you. These kids must have just transferred from my alma mater. The professors outside my core few favorites taught like it was a remedial high school. I skipped interminable hours of redundant reviews and spoonfeeding. Someday I dream of being able to teach what you teach, and so these posts are like a text to me of the kind of asshats I’ll have to endure. The evil bitch part of me is drooling imagining all the many wicked ways I’ll punish my little underlings for their laziness… *cackle*
May patience be with you.
September 28th, 2007 at 8:52 am
I love your rants about your students because they help me realize why it was so easy to get A’s. I mean yeah, I am smart but not any smarter than average (never had an IQ test but I would bet dollars to donuts I am dead center average.) The difference? I did what I was told to do and occasionally had a creative thought. But that’s not cool! This also explains why I had very few friends.
September 28th, 2007 at 2:08 pm
Gah. Just…. Gah. I would think half the battle with educating young minds is the part where you try to get it through their heads that they NEED TO BE RESPONSIBLE. And that they need to get shit done!
Yeah, could never be a college prof or teach high school — my foot would be in some peoples’ butts fer sure.
September 28th, 2007 at 3:17 pm
Phoenix, from what I’m seeing, it’s not so much the parents who have done this but their high schools.
The whole “teaching the test” thing? Yeahhh. My younger students just want to know what will be on the test. As if I will tell them that. So over and over I say, your education is not only about passing a test. You need to LEARN so you can function as a member of society and for your own enrichment as well.
Another kicker on the parent thing…Question #1 was asked by an adult in their 40s.
September 28th, 2007 at 3:21 pm
Sue,
Yep, that is the first thing I learned as a college teacher. I graded essays and papers and tests and went HOLY MOTHER OF CHEESE, I could have slept a whole lot more and stressed a whole lot less.
My worst submission was probably still one of the best in the class. I had no idea. And like you said, I’ll bet I’m only of an average IQ but can simply follow directions.
October 1st, 2007 at 8:42 am
Oy,do I feel you. We’re coming up on the midterm for both my English Grammar and my History of the English Language class, and I am getting exactly this questions from both classes, *plus* strings of emails, with like ten terms each in them — can you give me the definitions for these, please? (Sometimes they add please!) Because I’m supposed to do your studysheet for you? I think not. *I* already passed this class.
October 1st, 2007 at 9:08 pm
I love that: I already passed this class.
I’m borrowing that one!