“Do you receive any kind of backlash for being so harsh to the poor little things?”
Yes, the students post nasty comments on “Rate My Professor.” But the students who excel also post comments, usually positive.
Surprisingly my fellow teachers, most very liberal, back me up. Our mission is to transfer students to the Cal four year colleges. We don’t lower our standards just to fill classrooms.
#26 My cousins husband teaches programming like C++ and Visual Basic. I looked up his ratings. The students say things like easy course or he is old and slow : )
He is old and slow. Conversations with him take a half hour that can be done in 10 minutes with anyone else.