Binge Artist
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Not to be a dick, but I really don't have a problem with teachers/assistants ridiculing students...
As long as the ridicule be Constructive
As long as the ridicule be Constructive

She laughed at me when I brought her my "blue slip" that explains I need somewhere quiet, and extra time for a test. Ugh I'm re taking the class but i'm not getting her as a teacher.
Not to be a dick, but I really don't have a problem with teachers/assistants ridiculing students...
As long as the ridicule be Constructive![]()
Um well ridiculing students is unfair, unethical, unprofessional, and counterproductive to their learning.
So I have a problem with it...
^ So you were the TA? Or...the brunette?![]()
Take, for example, a situation like this.
There's about 10 or so students in a classroom. The professor is handing back graded essays. Two or three students don't get their papers back. They raise their hands, and say "Where are our papers?"
"Well"...says the prof (in front of the whole class)..."I'm afraid I couldn't find any worthwhile use for them other than to wipe my dog's ass."
This is the kind of thing I would do if I were a professor.
Sounds harsh, I know, but I believe FAR to many kids are in college nowadays.
The odd thing is, I often have trouble getting students to disagree with me. For example, whenever I teach Marx, I set aside some time to have a discussion of what's wrong with his picture. Almost invariably, the students are pretty quiet, and then I'll have to tear into him, which will involve some 'odd' criticisms (criticism from the left, academic criticism rooted in civil society, a critique of disciplinary society, etc.). It's almost as if they wish me to fill them as vessels.
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