The snowflakes are falling so gently.
Yeah... Because “Organic Chemistry” should be as easy as Gender Fluid Studies.
The best chem and bio-chem profs I had as an undergrad were the toughest graders. We students knew that we had to know it all, and we gave it the extra measure (and really, really learned chem!)
Back in the early 1990s students at the University of Arizona developed a list of people one could not discriminate.
The list included people of color, gay, lesbians, bisexual,
Native Americans etc. One group added to the was “the academically disinclined.”
> students stopped wanting to be educated and became buyers of credentials.
Bingo!
Too many colleges seem to be conducting themselves as though they were restaurants, not schools of higher learning.
They act like restaurants, eager to tailor and modify any course on the menu (in the curriculum) that the student is not 1000% at ease with. “Have it your way!” said the Dean.
In 10 years or so, the country will find out why organic chemistry is hard..There will be thousands of “affirmative action” doctors of all genders and colors who will proceed to slaughter their patients....I for one, never thought I would say this, but I am soooo glad I’m old....When the shock and fury comes,Hopefully I’ll be dead.....
O-chem has always been the undergrad class that weeded out those who didn’t belong in science and medicine. With dumbed down admission standards for “under privileged” students, this is bound to happen.
A genius prof at our nearby university first became a veterinarian, then went back to med school and became an MD. In later years he was brilliant tough and fair teaching anatomy and physiology at university. He was also an extreme outdoor adventurer. Students loved him.
A young coed was falling behind, so she slandered the prof and the school fired him without an investigation.
He killed himself.
is it harder than 4 years ago???
I am a pharmacist, now retired. Inorganic chem, Organic chem, and Bio chem got rid of the students that would not be able to get through professional pharmacy school. The chem department really hated being the gateway to pharmacy school. Those that made it past the gateway of chem, physics, and math had a very high graduation rate in pharmacy school. My graduating class only lost 3. Two were for personal reasons. The third was actually very talented and decided to switch his major to toxicology which is a tough major. He did well.
If his class truly is a weed-out class (as organic chemistry classes often are), he gets no sympathy from me.
It’s hard to know who is right here. Organic chem is certainly one of the more difficult courses for those not naturally inclined to chemistry. It’s possible that the tests were unreasonably hard or that the students were lazy idiots who didn’t put in enough effort. My money is on the students being snowflakes.
Every major has weed out courses and profs
If you can’t hack it go be a kindergarten teacher
Just wait until the medical doctors of tomorrow give up in the middle of complex surgeries because they are too hard and they’re just not feeling it today.
Student says pre-med are weed-out courses. If they’d given his name, no one would trust him to have earned his degree, unless it was gender studies.
Organic Chemistry is supposed to be hard. Best advise i ever got on how to pass it, was “memorize the book”. Our tests consisted of a “road map” and some other questions. The “road map” was “starting coal, limestone and air, go through 26 steps to find the given answer.”
Miss one, you fail.
Those students will not get a job or for long that requires chemistry.
If hired they will be fired soon after as they will not have the needed skills.
My son is not afraid of hard teachers and is demonstrably smart. He scored in the top 1% of all students in Texas on the STAAR exams.
He had an English professor this semester that was a total ass. Despite asking twice for clarification on an assignment, he never got a response so did his absolute best on the paper. Got a lousy grade. As a college educated woman myself who majored in English, I asked for a copy of the assignment and his paper. It was well researched, reasoned, properly documented, and crisply written.
Then the flu came through our house. He contacted the teacher with the doctor’s receipt and note, saw an in-class assignment on the portal with a deadline for that day and did it anyway even though he was sick as a dog. He got a zero. By way of explanation, the teacher replied, “This was an in-class assignment.” By following the school’s own guidelines and not showing up to class ill and contagious, he got a failing grade.
I told him to drop the class. This teacher was power-tripping.
With that class removed, he was back to a perfect GPA.
Not all hard teachers are good teachers and not all good teachers make the subject matter hard.
One of my hardest teachers was Ms. Novak for biology. Her class was tough but masterfully structured. She broke down each unit in logical order, building from the basic cell up. My notebook was completely full by the end of the school year. I did not need to study for the Regents exams. I only missed 1 question on the entire test.
She was an amazing teacher and everyone in her class passed.
Your mental laziness is as sad as it is appalling. Choosing to be set up for servitude vs. having the power of free choice is tragic. But go ahead, play with your cell phones and waste your time with nonsense like Tik Tok instead of deciding to meet challenges. Fools.