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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know it’s fun to bash the students.  But this is a large class that’s fundamental to many degrees.  Lots of tuition dollars involved. Why did the college hire an octogenarian on contract? This should be taught by a tenured professor. The students have a right to complain on that point alone.  The guy may no doubt had an illustrious career elsewhere, but at NYU he’s an admin cash grab.  Of course, he’s also the kind of guy who knows someone who knows someone at the NYT, but all the more reason to realize the students have a point.[/quote]

Tenured profs have seniority and prefer to teach higher-level classes with more serious students. Adjuncts get saddled with the huge entry-level classes with lots of whiners.[/quote]

Truth.

There was a thread about the parents Facebook pages at these schools, and while the one for my DC's school tends to be fairly positive, it just astounds me how entitled and whiny many students are and how their parents believe absolutely everything they say.  No an ounce of skepticism when the kid blames everything that goes wrong on the school or the prof. If their kid is making bad grades, it's because the Prof is awful and incompetent.  Currently, there's a thread started by a parent complaining about the food in the dining hall and how their kid has to eat out every meal because "everything" that they've eaten at the dining hall has "made their stomach hurt."  First of all, if that's true, you need to get your kid to the doctor asap. Second, restaurant food is magic and doesn't make their "stomach hurt?"  Of course, dining halls get boring and eating out is more fun.  Did it ever occur to you that your kid is simply justifying why they're spending a fortune on dining out?  Instead, there's a small cadre of parents who are ready to storm the administration building over the unacceptable quality of the food.  (FWIW, my fairly picky son says the food is fine, if not exciting.).

There's no way I'd be a college administrator these days.  [/quote]

My favorite FB parents page post is one we call "bacon gate"   Parent irate and complaining the dining hall is out of bacon (on one single day) and what is their snowflake supposed to do?!?!?  That parent was put in their place and told to teach their kid to reach out and ask someone as they are a COLLEGE student, oh, and that the dining hall being out of bacon when your kid is there is not really a major crisis. [/quote]

And these are the parents who will be bewildered when their kids can't function in the real world, and will blame everyone but themselves.[/quote]

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