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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If other professors were teaching the same course but seeing different results then the problem was the professor. It is likely that students did not gain the math skills or other foundations necessary to do well prior to the class. However if other professors were able yo recognize this, provide a different level of instruction and address it while this one could not then firing him made sense.

Many professors do not really teach. They reuse the same lectures and variations of tests year after year, They don’t watch or measure the performance of their students to see if they are teaching effectively. This is frankly always a problem but after the pandemic it can’t be ignored. [/quote]

Exactly.

I do think that the professor wasn't the cause of the problem, the cause is the entire education system. But we all have to deal with the impacts of the pandemic, professors included. [/quote]

My son had the “bad” teacher this year for one of his honors courses.  Everyone ends up dropping it.  She is impossible and doesn’t teach the material well- or even what is on the tests.  The school does nothing about it but they know.  They don’t let kids move into one of the other two honors courses taught by different teachers.

So- he either had to suffer and spend 90% of his time on this one class and still prob not do great or drop down from honors like the other 10 kids.  He dropped honors and has a 100% in the regular class and definitely would have an A in honors with one of the other teachers.

It was luck of the draw, and he lost.  It pisses me off for “course rigor”.  Every year there are complaints by everyone.  What can you do?  He dealt with it by dropping her course.  [/quote]

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