Here's Why All Hope Is Lost...

This is an email or comment that comes in all the time - the one below came in today. It echoes in every hall in academe, and it's wrong enough to go to war over.

Remember professors, students pay your salaries.

The school is a money-making institution and the students are the customers. What does that make professors to the students?

Time for some critical thinking.

5 Years Ago on CM. The Scintillating Stella From Sparksburg...

Some Shit I Wished I'd Said

B-minus Bob: No, I didn’t deduct points because I thought your paper was late. Because your paper wasn’t late. No, I didn’t enter the grade wrong. Fact is you just didn’t deserve anything better. And hey, I can tell you’re bitter, but asking me in front of the whole class about the average grade on the paper won’t help you. I know what you're thinking. Why don’t you just come out and say it? I am an A student and the only possible reasons for my B-minus are either a mistake, or you grade too hard. No, on both counts. And by the way, here’s the class average, B-minus Bob: 75.68. That’s pretty much the most average average imaginable. So I don’t grade too hard. I actually grade too easy by .68%. Fuck off.

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