University Business
A hallmark of students’ learning experience is their ability to approach and engage their professor outside of the classroom to pick their brain in a less formal setting. Unfortunately, student-professor dialogue isn’t always that rosy.
A new report by Intelligent has discovered that over 80% of high school teachers and college professors have given in to students’ demands for a higher grade than they’ve earned, a phenomenon known as “grade grubbing.” More
Grade grubbing? Is that a euphonism for “giving head”.
Karening 101.
Goes along with Helicopter parents.
i have known of parents contacting the profs & unis to bitch
my friend has had a parent sit in on a job interview at his dairy queen more times than he can count. the new normal.
Just getting ready for their jobs with the government.
From my own teaching experience, there is often administrative pressure on faculty to pass students so they don’t drop out (and, therefore, stop paying tuition). Faculty with high dropout rates were more likely to get fired.
My FIL was a professor at a major university and taught graduate level courses. He said the shit that the students would say to try to convince him to bump up their grades was often outrageous. Many were children of rich people from other countries who were here to go to school. They didn’t understand that they had to work for their grades since they were given high grades at home because of their status and not their performance.
There’s a lot of 5th graders who don’t seem to know the times tables and can’t read an analog clock, poor readers, etc
But some teachers call them “Friends”
they do “stations” and switch set to teacher’s timer 🙁
Agree with Jethro, and, regarding the rest, consider how many made it INTO college based on affirmative action.
On the other side, have to consider that there are some really marginal instructors these days ostensibly teaching all kinds of fluffy crap.
Also a method for hackers to get potential password clues…