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My English Comp teacher went nuts today

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If you do plan to drop the class, you should school her in lecture before you do. I'm sure it'll be plenty of fun.

(BTW, you should drop this class. English isn't that fun anyways, and you definately don't need a wacko have subjective reign over your grading)
 
Originally posted by: eigen
Yeah I am in Oxford.
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Cool. What's your major?

I was CS and lived in 301 Garland. If you do CS, make sure that Dr. Schoenely doesn't try to talk you into his pet project. 😉
 
Report her to the Board of Education

Not that it will do any good, but maybe the liberals will tell her to calm it down some.
 
Originally posted by: DingDingDao
I know what you mean. In high school, my AP Macroeconomics teacher was really conservative, and my AP Government teacher was really, really, liberal. It was crazy watching them go at each other sometimes.
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There are very few people in Econ or Finance who would be considered to be liberal. The current dominant theories in Finance and Economics are pretty conservative theories and the fields by nature attract the more conservative types. Of course, there are and always will be exceptions to this, but it's an extremely good general rule.

ZV
 
I have an ultra conservative political science teacher thursday night from 8pm to 10:45pm, then I have an ULTRA liberal psychology teacher fri morning 8am to 10:45am.... I'm FRAZZLED by the time lunch friday rolls around. My conservative pol science teacher rocks, and I hate my crazy liberal psyc teacher


(I'm moderate with a heavy leaning towards conservative... I agree with just about all of conservative values MONEY-wise, but disagree with most conservative social issues...)
 
Originally posted by: armatron
I have an ultra conservative political science teacher thursday night from 8pm to 10:45pm, then I have an ULTRA liberal psychology teacher fri morning 8am to 10:45am.... I'm FRAZZLED by the time lunch friday rolls around. My conservative pol science teacher rocks, and I hate my crazy liberal psyc teacher


(I'm moderate with a heavy leaning towards conservative... I agree with just about all of conservative values MONEY-wise, but disagree with most conservative social issues...)
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Maybe it's just because I've taken physics and EE clases almost exclusively (pretty hard to work a political bias into that--"It's John Kerry's fault that this particular energy is triply degenerate and as a result the Democratic National Convention is making you diagonalize this matrix!") but is it really that hard to just TEACH a class without making it blatantly obvious who you're voting for?
 
Originally posted by: Scarpozzi
The majority of people I see in higher-ed are usually wackos....I know this because I work for a university. Smart people get jobs in industry because they pay more....with the exception of the smaller group of professors that are actually good at what they do.
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Depends on the field. In business you make more most of the time doing research for a university. If you do a little consulting on the side you definately make more than 99% of the people in the industry. The funny thing about consulting is that part of the rate is based on your recent publications. Publications = fame = top dollar

However if you have 1 super publication you could most likely not produce any new research and still get top dollar until your theory falls out of favor.
 
Originally posted by: pyonir
I had an English comp prof that was a feminist. The subject manner of the entire class was feminist thought, and authors. None of that was made aware to me before the class. I took the class with two female friends and they both got A's on everything. I KNOW i was a better writer than them (I had read a few of their papers) and no matter how good my paper was, i never got higher than a B.

I hated her.
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Heh, my HS Honors World Lit teacher was a feminist too and always talked about how we should all be in AP Lit, and because of that would run the class like an AP class. I dropped it after a semester and took an AP level class and got better grades. I hated that guy....
 
Originally posted by: Brutuskend
Though I don't disagree with her, it was very unprofessional...
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Yeah, politics should be kept out of classes, internships, and jobs, esp. when it's the authority figure doing the ranting. I have a friend doing her grade school teacher internship and her mentor just flat out said "I have liberals" and started ranting. Pissed my nice, liberal friend off mightily (but she could show it, of course).
 
If you care about what you're learning in the class, switch profs or drop it. It may be dangerous even if you don't, because sometimes the crazy coots expect you to know things that they were supposed to teach you during lecture but didn't, and then go off on some crazy grading scheme where everyone got a 2 out of 100 so everyone fails.
 
Originally posted by: shinerburke
Typical public school teacher these days......sigh.........not shocked at all.
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Way to only read the first post! 😉

Oh boy, more ranting professors. Just what we need, more lifelong academics telling us how things should be run.
 
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