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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Unless you choose community college, the competition and vetting of professors is very solid.[/quote]

It's actually the opposite - community college profs are often great. And if they aren't they are fired.

University professors have tenure. They cannot be fired and they are often forced to teach lower level classes against their will when they would rather be doing their own research. Incompetence and hatred for students ensues. This is the state school experience in a nutshell. If you survive the experience you are a much stronger person for it.

Those middling high cost schools such as American University are very much the opposite of this. So, if you want to save your kid from bad teachers and experiences get out your checkbook and send them there.

Otherwise tip off your kid that they should aggressively drop and add classes.

I had some of the worst and incompetent  on purpose profs in the early engineering years at UMCP - it was actually abusive because young people have no say or control or choice. It's strange to take people's money and give them incompetent jerks and huge class sizes. It does teach one survival but I still resent the incompetence - it's like stealing money from the state of Maryland. If you don't want to do your job, don't draw your salary.[/quote]

I agree with your account. As a grad student at a large state university, I’ve heard many professors bitch and moan about having to teach. They were outstanding researchers, stars in their fields of study, but unmotivated lousy teachers. Yes, feedback does count, so before they went up for tenure, they were super nice and lax and gave everyone As basically.  To be fair, some students were entitled and unpleasant brats who would ruin teaching for anyone. [/quote]

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