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[quote=Anonymous]I've taught at several schools, ranging from top 10 to ~75. You'd be surprised how many crappy or weird students there are even in the ivies.

At the "best" school, I had a student come to me and say that a guy in the classroom was cornering her every morning before class and forcing her to give him her homework under threat of physical violence. It launched a whole headache of a process and many sleepless nights as I worried about this student. Another student at the school was basically a psychopath and stalked me on facebook trying to manipulate me into giving him a better grade in the class.

At another top 20 school, the students were soooo entitled it was difficult to accomplish anything. They thought they were god's gift to society and I was constantly getting told that my materials were incorrect (they weren't) or that their mom or dad was in industry xyz and they knew better than me.

All of these schools also have a handful of kids that can't grasp basic concepts. How do those kids get into a top 10, top 20 school? I don't know - ask admissions. There are definitely more of those kids as you move down the rankings. It is certainly irritating when you teach a concept and 95% of the class instantly gets it, but then you have to spend 99% of your outside class time helping the same 3 students over and over and over again with basic equations. For example, last year I had a student that didn't understand what exponents are.

I imagine it would be worse at a directional school and I am fortunate not to have to deal with that. But it's no picnic teaching at top schools, where I had some of my worst experiences.
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