Posted on 05/03/2017 2:43:16 PM PDT by BlackAdderess
I had a professor this semester who is a community organizer from Chicago (I kid you not). He was utterly worthless, I am one of a number of students who reported him for being worthless, and he hates me (because he always did and) because the administration has evidently cracked down on him.
He holds a chokehold over EVERY student in my discipline, since every student will have to take this ONE professor for one worthless (waste of money), but required course.
What do I do? This is so wrong. So very very heinously wrong. He is so worthless, and so transparently partisan, yet he gets to pick winners and losers, and I am going into debt for this degree!
This is a Republican area. With a Republican alumnus base, and a Republican legislature. I am in absolute despair and am utterly depressed. Please give me advice.
and it'll soon be over.
You ain't gettin' NO righteous return in an American institution that knowingly keeps a POS in front of young minds.
“But believe me when I say that NOBODY takes this guy if there is any other option.”
Earlier you said there was no other option.
“But believe me when I say that NOBODY takes this guy if there is any other option.”
Earlier you said there was no other option.
You are approaching the problem from a victims perspective!
Change your whole future right now by starting a daily diary and dig for information on this guy. Record what you are allowed and don’t overlook the resources that are in front of you.
A how to put up with a****les to get a passing grade book should be a best seller. Just how much money would you pay for that information right now?
To be clear. This man is refusing to teach the subject he is charged with teaching and has instead substituted a whole bunch of social justice nonsense taught from a book that nobody would buy if they had any choice in the matter. He is not teaching the course, he is instead substituting ideological nonsense which has not value in the subject he is supposed to be teaching. We are being robbed.
If you want to die on that hill over one college course- then go for it.
Looking back after 50 years of careers, jobs, asshole bosses, crummy jobs that helped me move up to something better all - jousting with a college professor over one course seems real small to me.
Make a video of him being “worthless” and post it on YouTube.
I’m sure it will be hard but I would advise being polite and respectful no matter how he treats you. Ask at the beginning of the class to get IN WRITING the requirements for the different grades. Do you best to comply. Document everything. If you still get a bad grade you will have some evidence at least.
Obviously the learning institution lacks integrity, and that is a two way street. She owes no integrity to the institution, other than not cheating. Totally different when you are out working, and the effort is no longer literally academic.
Exactly! Had a professor back in the 70s when I went to college who got his Ph.D. at Berkeley in the 60s, and still lived the part. On one project for him, I lost points because I didn't complete it as he would have done, even though his "methodology" didn't apply to the subject matter.
I finished the course best I could, didn't pick fights, then made darned sure I never took another course he taught. 40 years later, I still have nightmares about the experience, but know it made me tougher in the real world!
I guess the line I would draw is if I was expected to repeat the SJW stuff as gospel. This could be addressed as a matter of course content. Hey, this class was supposed to be about sociology, not social justice! Which could even be addressed, perhaps, without blaming the prof (even though it seems obvious the prof has a lot of blame to take).
What level of course, Frosh, Soph, JR., or SR? Can you find a similar course online course from an accredited college or maybe you local community college if it a freshman or sophomore level course.
What are other course options are available for the credits for that department or is it a core class?
He teaches more than one required course, but the one required course he is the only professor to teach. This was a required course, and this semester he was the only one to teach it. Had I waited I could have gotten another professor for this course, but not for the course that he is the only professor to teach.
Nope.
No lying.
The Gator will misread you... kind of like that professor probably does. Don’t go for the bait.
Let them ask. All she gets out the experience is a grade.
I'd teach other students the same thing. There is no such thing as academic integrity, other than not cheating.
Fixing the issue in any bigger context requires naming the school and the professor - and that can wait until after the course/degree is in hand.
You’re screwed
Is it a required liberal arts class or a humanities class?
If it is, those clowns only see the world in those terms - meaning SJW terms. Just feed his drivel back to him, you have no other choice.
If you deliberately took a humanities or liberal arts course, well you clearly haven’t been paying attention to what’s going on in world!
Sorry, you can’t abstract over lying.
What did you want, a diploma from a School of Lies?
Switch to Engineering, Computers or Accounting. You will be able to get a job outside of Starbucks, and pay back your loans.
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