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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The only intervention here is to tell your child to utilize Rate My Professor before registration and to drop before the census date if they don’t like the professor.

The professor can’t talk to you. You’re just going to embarrass everyone involved and give the Professor a good dinner party story. [/quote]

(recognizing this is years old) but this is the only answer. Its the kids responsibility to do their due diligence on professors and if they didn't once, they will hopefully learn to do it in the future. My DD went to college convinced she could win over any professor and had lots of "bad teachers" in HS that she did fine with. Unfortunately what she didn't realize is that in college, you rarely get to know the professor and cannot establish any kind of relationship with them, or often even speak to them in a meaningful way (office hours can really suck with a bad professor).  The next semester she vetted every class she was taking to ensure she knew the profs were good. Lesson learned. Yes her GPA took an unfortunate hit but she learned a valuable lesson.[/quote]

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