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Glad to see you enjoy it so much.

Serious question though:

I saw that mentality from a lot of kids when I was still in school and I'm sure it is a lot worse now. I only had a couple of professors/instructors who wouldn't put up with the whiny bullshit and from your posts I wouldn't think you would tolerate it either.

You are fortunate to be in a position to do something about the behavior of these "lazy self entitled kids". How do you handle that and what do you do individually to attempt to make them see life differently?

Wait, do you mean like you haven't read anything I posted here and just automatically go on about how I blame liberals for everything? Pot, meet kettle.

Aren't the educators of our kids supposed to be open minded and not fall into the trap of preconceived notions?

Ibet that almost makes you question what it is you like so much about liberalpolicies.

Whoever shows up from CPS gets their ass beat aswell. Once you take on a problem you have to be willing to see it through tothe end.

Typicalliberal behavior--not taking responsibility for their actions.

Thisis the mentality that becomes more and more prevalent in today's entitlementsociety when getting free stuff becomes the norm rather than the exception.

The ultimate result of liberalism.

Ah,the ol' "treat the symptom not the cause"

Makes sense from a liberal perspective I guess.

We're going bankrupt, should we raise the limit onour credit cards or stop spending so much?

Avoidingpersonal responsibility due to a technicality?

You would make a pretty good liberal.

Thisis one of the prices of becoming a "progressive" society. Keep votingfor liberals and putting them in power and this is what we get in return. Itwill all sort itself out eventually but by then it may be too late to fixthings. Get used to this kind of crap becoming the norm.

I do enjoy it. I don't enjoy dealing with some of my students, but the vast majority don't cause problems and I do enjoy the teaching. The results of the self esteem philosophy in the lower grades is a particular pet peeve of mine and that does frustrate me. But just because I find that particular aspect frustrating doesn't mean that I don't enjoy the rest of it.

I set strict policies and then I enforce them without exception. Often times I have students who want me to make an exception for them and I staunchly refuse to do so. I point to the policy as it is written in my syllabus, and I tell them that the rules are the rules and that they have to abide by them just like everyone else does. Part of my job is to prepare these kids to start their careers once they graduate and I am not shy about telling them that in the real world, no boss is going to tolerate excuses for things like missing deadlines or failing to complete assignments. I then inform them that while they may not like the consequences of whatever rule they have broken, my consequences are much lighter than the consequences they would face for similar behavior in the workforce and that they should take the experience as a learning lesson so that they don't make the same mistake in their future job. Most students, once they realize that I am not going to bend, take it fairly well.


A lot of professors will let students make up late work or assignments that they didn't turn in. A lot of professors don't have any penalties for missing class. A lot of professors drop the lowest exam grade or the lowest homework grade. I don't do these things because in the real world if you screw up an assignment, your boss is not going to "drop" your failure. So I want my students to get used to a real world attitude. It's more work for me, but like I said, I view it as part of my job to get them ready to face real world challenges.

Knowing the two of you? Yeah, yeah I would.



I play GTA!

I'm pretty sure we discussed this at length with the last shooting...

Oh, right, you can beat them to death with a baseball bat, golf club, crowbar or your bare hands. You can also set them on fire with a molotov cocktail. Other than that though, my post covered everything else you do in GTA to kill people.





You know you can't force a cat to do anything! They like chasing and eating the bugs, I just have to show them where it is.

BTW bunny... here are some examples of you blaming liberals for all sorts of stuff. And these are all just from the first page and a half of the three pages of search results I got from searching for posts of yours containing the word liberal. Now stop playing the martyr and pretending like I am wrongly accusing you of blaming liberals for stuff.
Bunny blaming liberals for bullies beating up schoolchildren.

Bunny blaming liberals for people getting out of speeding tickets.



Bunny blaming liberals for the existence of greed.



Bunny blaming liberals for threads getting locked?


Bunny still blaming liberals for people being able to get out of speeding tickets.



Bunny blaming liberals for chaos on Black Friday.

And Besides..stabbing is ineffective if you want absolute kills. I play GTA as well. What me and my friend would do, is he would get a chopper, and I would get the tank. Hook chopper to tank and I would just blast away around the entire city as we flew around. More or less invincible.


Anything less than that, and it's not worth my time to execute a mass murder killing spree.

Well, yes, less effective if you're trying to kill other players online. It's perfectly effective for killing pedestrians on the street, which is more akin to what we were discussing, I thought.

You seem to have given this more thought than I have Mal.

Oh I get that and understand what drives a dedicated teacher. I wish they were all that way. I was just attempting a little humor, not seriously saying you didn't actually enjoy it.



Great! More should follow that approach. Unfortunately they don't, as you say. What is also unfortunate is that you will get the reputation of being a tough professor and the laziest students will avoid your classes like the plague when scheduling (assuming there are alternate choices--I have no idea what you even teach). That can be good for you because you will end up with the more dedicated students but bad because the ones who need to learn that discipline may not get it.

Personally I used to pick the tougher professors in college because I wanted to learn, not just coast through. It almost always paid off. In a few rare instances the tougher ones weren't always that great at teaching.

But at least all of it is true.

Btw, I bet you can't stop feeding off your own hate and say positive and nice things about me like I just did to you.

You are very good at blaming liberals for a ton of shit while complaining when other people accuse you of doing exactly that?

I am sorry but your answer was in the form of a question rather than in a compliment, you lose.

You are very good at blaming liberals for a ton of shit while complaining when other people accuse you of doing exactly that?

I actually have a 4.9/5 rating on ratemyprofessor.com right now. I am a tough professor, but I'm fair. And I work really hard to make sure that the ones who want to do well can do that. I remind them when assignments are due. I go over the most important parts of the previous lecture at the beginning of the class. I give them a review before each exam. I spend 2 hours doing a practice problem session before the final. So the ones who are willing to put the work in have every opportunity to do well. I do have my share of slackers who don't put any effort into the class and bomb it, but I haven't had any of them give me crappy ratings. Maybe deep down they know it's their fault they failed and not mine? I don't know. I'm sure that my rating is so high because I'm still fairly new, and it won't last forever, but I'll enjoy it while I can.