tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post6724225131504897570..comments2024-03-15T01:11:32.832-07:00Comments on Bardiac: Make Me CrazyBardiachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11846065504793800266noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-89636144263010146422007-08-17T13:12:00.000-07:002007-08-17T13:12:00.000-07:00This is a GREAT post. I wish I'd figured this out ...This is a GREAT post. I wish I'd figured this out during my first semester of adjuncting, fresh out of grad school, when I was horrified that my freshman nonmajors didn't take my class as seriously as I did! :)<BR/><BR/>(I figured it out, and FAST, but I wish I'd known this to start...)<BR/><BR/>Bravo.Terminal Degreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16523014953046778630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-59564195431890755512007-08-15T20:58:00.000-07:002007-08-15T20:58:00.000-07:00Exactly right, all of it, Bardiac.And this made me...Exactly right, all of it, Bardiac.<BR/><BR/>And this made me laugh: "because despite tenure, I still retain minimal social skills."undinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05589384016564587214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-2264172796667709932007-08-15T12:56:00.000-07:002007-08-15T12:56:00.000-07:00Hear, hear. Well put.Hear, hear. Well put.Pilgrim/Heretichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08588407758172717893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-37307324629467455412007-08-15T09:50:00.000-07:002007-08-15T09:50:00.000-07:00i love this post! and if the shrub isn't an argum...i love this post! and if the shrub isn't an argument against the alleged high caliber of students in the ivy league, i don't know what is.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-43668897766620219512007-08-14T23:14:00.000-07:002007-08-14T23:14:00.000-07:00Amen to that.Amen to that.StyleyGeekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10287051608503966129noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-25905079765970588442007-08-14T20:58:00.000-07:002007-08-14T20:58:00.000-07:00Thank you for this, Bardiac. I find it *intensely*...Thank you for this, Bardiac. I find it *intensely* problematic when faculty members get nasty about students - and nasty they do get, to a great degree. This differs from the occasional venting - there's something systemic and *mean* about it. At the uni where I was teaching on FT contract last year, I ran into some people (ahem - head of the faculty association, for one) who spent all. of. their. time. acting persecuted, victimized by students. You know, I think if you're going to bring that much bitterness and hatred to the teaching part of this profession, you shouldn't be in it at all. Period.<BR/><BR/>The other thing - and here I'm hijacking, too! - is that there *are*, at least in my Home Province, some measurable ways in which students have been (to appropriate a term) deskilled in certain areas. They come to university unprepared, as a result of changes in the provincial secondary school curriculum since the mid- to late 1990s, by a government that took power in 1995. That's a very bad thing, I think. But: is it the fault of students?? No, it most certainly isn't. So we shouldn't be blaming students for it.Hilairehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09033740943173352249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-22017829407739102922007-08-14T20:29:00.000-07:002007-08-14T20:29:00.000-07:00Grrrrrr!!! Those people drive me absolutely batty...Grrrrrr!!! Those people drive me absolutely batty! I completely agree with what you posted. In fact, my high school class's valedictorian attended our regional campus of big state school because he received a full scholarship - and he later went on to attend a very good law school. <BR/><BR/>And I've seen my early undergrad papers - they are frightening. Especially my occasional attempts at humor in these papers. <BR/><BR/>I slacked off a lot, but I accepted the consequences for it (some bad grades). And that is one of the few things that annoys me about <I>some</I> of my students - that when they do slack off or prioritize some other course, they don't want to accept the consequences. But most students are great. And, I always think (but don't say if the power-differential isn't in my favor) if a student isn't writing as well as a professor in discipline x wants, why isn't this professor teaching his/her students the conventions of writing/communicating in the discipline? That, and much as we wouldn't expect a student to know everything about biology after one semester, students aren't going to know everything about writing after that one semester of required coursework. <BR/><BR/>Sorry for hijacking the comment for my mini-rant. You hit on one of the things that truly annoy me.k8https://www.blogger.com/profile/07547334819703279971noreply@blogger.com