If you fucking hate students - I don't mean if you get frustrated - I don't mean if you have your daily WTF moments - hell, I don't even mean if you have HOURLY wtf moments - I mean if you REALLY fuckin' hate them, then too bad you suck at chem too bad to land an industry job, but go get a real estate license or something and get the fuck out of here.Actual footage of my summer session colleagues:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR5ApYxkU-U
--WotC
In my department, off the top of my head, I can think of one half a person who hates students. Maybe one other half person, too, but that one is even iffier. Fortunately, I also can't think of anyone who thinks they're a bowl full of kittens. The only student hater I can think of retired some years past. Maybe it's age, but I find the percentages of students I love, like, and tolerate have steadily increased. Then there are the ones who have me screaming in the hole I dug in my back yard.
ReplyDeleteI'd say this one guy is maybe only half a person who hates. He's a full-timer who was asked for office hours and he shrugged and giggled and said "I have to get home at some point". Yeah, and that point is going to be 5 hours before your students since you don't have recitation or lab! Stop being an asshole about doing your job!
ReplyDeleteThe other full out hates, but to be fair, she hates a lot of things other than students. It is impossible for her to enter a room without huffing and slumping her shoulders like she just had to battle ninjas, raccoons and IRS auditors on her way down the hall.
Literally every day she says "They just keep asking me the same STUPID questions..." I want to say "[gasp sigh sigh gasp] that's because you just keep saying the same STUPID thing because you're a STUPID crappy excuse for a teacher"
There's a colleague here, hip online presence, popular with students, teaches a course that's fun, smiles lots, then viciously ridicules their work on fb the same semester they produce it, quoting directly so that if it was yours, you'd know it...makes my jaw clench.
ReplyDeleteAmen. My summer class is not going particularly smoothly this year -- or, rather, while most of the students are perking along reasonably well, and asking reasonable questions, and all that, I've got a few who seem to alternate between disengagement and panic, and a few (who overlap considerably with the disengaged/panicked group, so I suspect they're not being deliberately deceptive) who respond to assignments by posting completely unrelated stuff (so, sports management major posts a bunch of medical articles, with no relationship whatsoever to sports, movement, exercise, etc., as potential sources for a paper).
ReplyDeleteBut, after some initial internal grumbling (because this class went so much more smoothly last time I taught it), I've been buckling down and riding herd on them and checking even minor posts very carefully, so as to herd the outliers back toward the flock when necessary. I even checked and answered email today despite the fact that the university is closed (and I really, really, really need a break -- which I will take tomorrow).
If the department chair, dean, and provost did their jobs, these proffies would be gone.
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