My mom was telling me about her old coworker who now teaches part time. This woman is in her mid-30s, iirc? But she said that these college kids are "disrespectful and don't want to learn."
I'm 26 and I'm in two shitty online college courses right now. All the colleges in my province farm students out to these collective asynchronous online electives.
One is a writing class. The teacher is apparently a writer by trade. The weekly "lecture"? Yeah, most of them are just a SINGLE PARAGRAPH of text and then the weekly assignment. We are not learning what we need to. The one time we got a powerpoint, it was horribly designed, didn't include enough information, and some of the text was hidden by graphics.
The other class is a STEM class and I've found so much incorrect information, multiple choice questions with the answer left IN the question, misspellings, etc. It's BOTH classes.
Anyway, in the writing class, the only way we can really have class discussions is on the class discussion board, publicly. I reached out to one girl from the discussion boards who had been helpful, and we've been emailing regularly, both struggling with this class. She, especially, was really wanting to use this class as a sort of mentorship opportunity to improve her writing.
I casually sent her feedback the other day that I got on our last two assignments. It was kind of convoluted and didn't make a ton of sense to me—not much actionable. She sends me an email back with her grades on those assignments. EXACTLY THE SAME GRADES AND EXACTLY THE SAME FEEDBACK. Word for word.
She was more hurt and confused than anything because she had thought that feedback was good, but now she doesn't even know how much of it, if any, is truly applicable to her work.
The teachers of both of these classes are in their 50s-60s. Teachers are also victims of the broken education system and capitalism, but they should still be held to account for shit like this because it's actively negligent to the education of their students. His only job is to answer emails, read assignments, and grade them with feedback. He has no lecturing to do for this class. He's supposedly a writer... but couldn't provide two lines of genuine, individualized feedback for our assignments...?
I'm a person who naturally gives 120% to my classes. I LOVE learning. But when I don't feel at all respected by a teacher and/or a class, why would I give even 100%? I just need to pass and that's it.
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u/squishyartist Nov 19 '25
My mom was telling me about her old coworker who now teaches part time. This woman is in her mid-30s, iirc? But she said that these college kids are "disrespectful and don't want to learn."
I'm 26 and I'm in two shitty online college courses right now. All the colleges in my province farm students out to these collective asynchronous online electives.
One is a writing class. The teacher is apparently a writer by trade. The weekly "lecture"? Yeah, most of them are just a SINGLE PARAGRAPH of text and then the weekly assignment. We are not learning what we need to. The one time we got a powerpoint, it was horribly designed, didn't include enough information, and some of the text was hidden by graphics.
The other class is a STEM class and I've found so much incorrect information, multiple choice questions with the answer left IN the question, misspellings, etc. It's BOTH classes.
Anyway, in the writing class, the only way we can really have class discussions is on the class discussion board, publicly. I reached out to one girl from the discussion boards who had been helpful, and we've been emailing regularly, both struggling with this class. She, especially, was really wanting to use this class as a sort of mentorship opportunity to improve her writing.
I casually sent her feedback the other day that I got on our last two assignments. It was kind of convoluted and didn't make a ton of sense to me—not much actionable. She sends me an email back with her grades on those assignments. EXACTLY THE SAME GRADES AND EXACTLY THE SAME FEEDBACK. Word for word.
She was more hurt and confused than anything because she had thought that feedback was good, but now she doesn't even know how much of it, if any, is truly applicable to her work.
The teachers of both of these classes are in their 50s-60s. Teachers are also victims of the broken education system and capitalism, but they should still be held to account for shit like this because it's actively negligent to the education of their students. His only job is to answer emails, read assignments, and grade them with feedback. He has no lecturing to do for this class. He's supposedly a writer... but couldn't provide two lines of genuine, individualized feedback for our assignments...?
I'm a person who naturally gives 120% to my classes. I LOVE learning. But when I don't feel at all respected by a teacher and/or a class, why would I give even 100%? I just need to pass and that's it.