i had a science teacher like this, purposefully paired up people that didn’t like each other to teach us a lesson on working with others. it shockingly never worked like he thought it would
This teacher should write a book on “How to Make Sure That a Good Student Will Loose an Interest in Doing the Assignment Because They Know That They Will Get C No Matter What They Do”.
His intentions are good, but the execution is poor. We know the two become friends, which is good, but pushing off a problematic student on a well-performing student without asking or giving additional support never works.
I had a teacher who would grade me lower just because I was a high-performing student and she “expected more out of me,” no additional ideas on what was expected of me, just that she wanted “more.” All I took it to mean was that doing well meant I had to do more work for no benefit, so I stopped working so hard in her class (also it was middle school so, like, what even).
@Nev
I agree on the intentions and execution part.
I have a hard time thinking that this guy would expect a student to do what obviously teachers and administration cannot do: Get an aimless, indifferent, nihilistic student to work on a project.
What he’s doing can work with literature as well as with any art. Often, a student won’t share with the class (authority figure + collective judgement) what they like, but will be able to tell it to peers especially if it’s nihilistic, aimless art. For maths I agree it’s a lost cause.
Also if someone can grade you lower, it means the scale wasn’t properly set to begin with, which means they had no idea what they were grading (quality, competence, skill, knowledge?), which means they had no idea what was the particular item of their knowledge they were teaching this particular time, which probably means they got no real education on how to teach in the first place.
i had a science teacher like this, purposefully paired up people that didn’t like each other to teach us a lesson on working with others. it shockingly never worked like he thought it would
Yep, he’s an asshole alright.
This is the teacher’s passive-aggressive way of getting revenge on the students for his poor career choices. 😉
This teacher should write a book on “How to Make Sure That a Good Student Will Loose an Interest in Doing the Assignment Because They Know That They Will Get C No Matter What They Do”.
words can not express how happy I am to find this comic.
His intentions are good, but the execution is poor. We know the two become friends, which is good, but pushing off a problematic student on a well-performing student without asking or giving additional support never works.
I had a teacher who would grade me lower just because I was a high-performing student and she “expected more out of me,” no additional ideas on what was expected of me, just that she wanted “more.” All I took it to mean was that doing well meant I had to do more work for no benefit, so I stopped working so hard in her class (also it was middle school so, like, what even).
@Nev
I agree on the intentions and execution part.
I have a hard time thinking that this guy would expect a student to do what obviously teachers and administration cannot do: Get an aimless, indifferent, nihilistic student to work on a project.
What he’s doing can work with literature as well as with any art. Often, a student won’t share with the class (authority figure + collective judgement) what they like, but will be able to tell it to peers especially if it’s nihilistic, aimless art. For maths I agree it’s a lost cause.
Also if someone can grade you lower, it means the scale wasn’t properly set to begin with, which means they had no idea what they were grading (quality, competence, skill, knowledge?), which means they had no idea what was the particular item of their knowledge they were teaching this particular time, which probably means they got no real education on how to teach in the first place.