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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]College professor year. I've been a professor for 24 years and every year it's worse! Parents please try to nix these behaviors in your HS kids before they go to college AND teach them a few basic life skills. I promise spending some time on these will ensure your kid has a better experience in college and in life.[/quote]

To hell with my son’s professors and any attitude any of you have.

Many of you teachers and professors simply don’t deserve good, serious students because you are not serious teachers.

My son is the most sober, rule-abiding person who ever lived

I don’t know how he behaves in class, but he has handled all admissions processes since junior high, turned in every assignment on time, wrestled group project partners into doing their work, become a fervent policer of citation style rules, and attended every class, other than when he was sick with COVID.

He ends up being enthusiastic about any paper or other project he does.

He hasn’t had a teacher who’s marked up a paper for spelling and punctuation since about third grade.

Since he left grade school, his teachers and professors (who have all been at highly regarded schools with no serious discipline or student achievement problems) have never stuck to their grading timelines, even though they’ve barely given him feedback.

Half of his high school teachers used upside down learning as an excuse not to teach anything, at any point.

When my son had bad COVID and wanted to follow the isolation rules, the university went out of its way to scare him before finally letting him not infect everyone else with COVID.

So, sure, it’s hard to be a teacher, and it’s hard to be a professor. But, on the whole, in my experience, you folks aren’t any better when compared with 1980s professors than today’s students are when compared with 1980s students.

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