In the basement of the final tower!
This teacher starts to talk about how he works at a college. One is a community college and one is a small private college, he talks about how nice each one is with the Gothic tower looking things and how students sit under the trees on their cell phones or reading and doing other things. He wants to talk about a lot of intellectual readings like Shakespeare but he can not Because
All of the kids are in way over their head, they do not want to be in college they did not even try to go to college, SO When they decided that they needed to go to school they had to go to something like community college, it is a last resort.
He teaches Eng 101 and 102 which I am sure is just like our class, 1101 and 1002
Most of the kids he taught has not the best grades and nothing next to extra curricular activities, they chose school based on the location and simply just because they needed a few credits for a raise at work.
They do not look like they enjoy his class and it is because it is really hard for them. He fails 9 out of 15 students , For what! why does he doe this
"What actually happens is that nothing happens. I feel no pressure from the colleges in either direction. My department chairpersons, on those rare occasions when I see them, are friendly, even warm. They don’t mention all those students who have failed my courses, and I don’t bring them up."
I did not know what to think about when i first read this
Then I got to the part about the girl who he thinks never has written a college level paper, He thought he should of given her a C grade but that would not be fair to other students it would be loweing the standards. I think she should of got a C because that is average and she many others who would alos not be considered average, she tries to do her work and comes to class, she does not skip the things she has to do and paid for it.
This article confuses me but I do not think i have a problem and this does not have to do with me at this point I think I am able to do most of the college work and if I am not able to, I know I have enough non important things to not worry about and focus on academics more and try and get better grades.
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Hey Sean, last post I can not believe it. Anyways, when I read the article about writing the college level paper I was also confused. These huge words kill me as bad as that sounds. It causes me to lose my train of thought. One thing I liked that you talked about was that you didn’t understand why the one professor fails 9 out of 15 students. Why? You said, I don’t get it either. And you’re right that doesn’t help anybody. And I liked how touched on the subject of most of the students were there because they needed a couple extra credits for a raise at work.
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