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I'm not antagonistic about it but you sure seem triggered. I am simply stating facts, perhaps not couching it with flowery language to protect fragile egos, but the reality is that teaching is a whole new world. Older teachers are being outpaced by technology and new ways to communicate.

I remember when professors had typists and were appalled that they would have to type their own research with a word processor, some never did.

Now there is Canvas and email and texting and zoom and recordings... I feel for professors but in what other profession can you just not be good at your job and then everybody blames their clients.[/quote]

I’m a new poster who’s the parent of a college student who’s meeting deadlines and doing well.

Certainly, professors can be jerks, but you’re the only one being awful and mean in this thread.

You’re being awful because you are, in effect, calling the professors racist, then being incredibly insulting and ageist.

You’re also being awful by showing your high level of privilege and assuming as a given that SLACs all have effective, Columbia-level support services.

You’re like someone who scoffs at a student who forgets a lunch at home and asks, “Why don’t you just call the butler?”

Not every student comes from a house with a butler.

Not every SLAC has TAs or a writing center that can do much for a student with very weak writing skills. [/quote]

Columbia is not a SLAC.

Name a SLAC that does not have a writing center.

I didn't call the professor racist, I said they have blinders on, perhaps it's a white girl with a baby going to college that they treat differently... that's not race and it might not even be SES. But they treat students one way based on something due to myopic thinking. They expect every student to fit one singluar riduculously tiny mold.

I had a professor ask me if they could fix the speaker to Teams because they heard children in the background... during COVID. Yea sorry some student's have children, get over it. He discussed marking them down for participation... not because they did not participate, not because they didn't have good feedback, but because it bothered him that he "heard a child's voice".

Kids forget lunch, ask 3 friends for a granola bar or go hungry, natural consequences.

I neither awful nor mean. I am just stating facts about experiences that happen behind the scenes in a professor's office. I agree it's horrible, it sounds horrible, it's not made up.

It's odd you are mad at me because I am showing what really goes on, but you're not mad that professors do these things.

Go ahead, shoot the messenger. [/quote]

I think most people objected to your message style which was obnoxious . Your message was not designed to help parents learn how they could prepare their Hs students better but to attack a peer for expressing her or his experiences.

Your message style needs a lot of work. You were not clear and masked your feedback in disdain rather than constructive good will.

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