prep school
There's a guy sitting a table over from me at Bollo's complaining about an instructor who pulled the following stunt with ("not mandatory") homework: After a half-hour of lecture, she proclaimed that those students who'd done their homework would stay for the remainder of class to go over it with her and get it correct; the rest of the class would turn in their undone homework, which would be graded for accuracy. The guy (who just left) ranted for a bit about this being college; that he was paying for his education, not to be kicked out of a classroom1, especially since high school students don't get that kind of treatment (his comparison); and that, in his college experience-a (sobering, i'm sure) three years-homework is meant for students' benefit, and while it should be done, it needn't be. His companion suggested that this kind of behavior on the teacher's part could be reported to some board or other and reprimanded.
I get the feeling that in another three years he'll be complaining about how college didn't prepare him for the real world, in which you can't reprimand your superiors for refusing to baby their slacker employees and irrational behavior on their part is one of many injustices you have to tolerate2. His valid point-that he is paying for the experience-is somewhat nullified by his disinterest in learning the material in the first place3; he wants to pay for the degree, and the content and work are hurdles.
I still don't like the taste of beer.
1 What, you thought he was one of the ones who got to stay?
2 I, of course, know all about the real world.
3 No, the "learn without homework" argument doesn't work. Had he known the material well enough to get a high A, this lost assignment would've caused him no grief. Otherwise, since he's paying for the education he's also paying for the homework that reinforces the material.
I get the feeling that in another three years he'll be complaining about how college didn't prepare him for the real world, in which you can't reprimand your superiors for refusing to baby their slacker employees and irrational behavior on their part is one of many injustices you have to tolerate2. His valid point-that he is paying for the experience-is somewhat nullified by his disinterest in learning the material in the first place3; he wants to pay for the degree, and the content and work are hurdles.
I still don't like the taste of beer.
1 What, you thought he was one of the ones who got to stay?
2 I, of course, know all about the real world.
3 No, the "learn without homework" argument doesn't work. Had he known the material well enough to get a high A, this lost assignment would've caused him no grief. Otherwise, since he's paying for the education he's also paying for the homework that reinforces the material.