[eledoremassis02]

Well today was really embarrassing!


I'm in a basic history class and my teacher feels we're all history buffs as he, I've had problems with this teacher before as up until recently been up to 5-10 minutes late as their is construction and the school told prof's to let kids be up to 10 min. late. For some reason he thought I was up to 30min late and insisted I'd drop the class. Well that issue kinda flattened out.... anyway, I would also e-mail him after 2 pop quizzes we had that I bombed out in and how it's been a while since I've had history (4years), and that the last history class I had covered colonial America to the late 1990's so things went kinda fast, basically I'm a little rusty... first time he appreciated the fact I gave this explanation, second time I was talking about how I didn't completely leave the history scene as I was interested in my own research on my tribal history and western expansion and how I was looking forward to the Jackson administration and even read ahead and was astounded how they barley covered trail of tears in a college text. Mind you in between I've had conversations with him about how they way we act now reflects on our history.

Well, he never got back to me, and today in class he asked me about the Monroe Doctrine and as I usually freeze up when I'm asked a question out of the blue I said "I can't recall at this time" and then he asked the whole class, only 3 out of some 30 people knew. So he pointed me out and called me by name and said, "you see he sends me these long e-mails that take about 'a month to read' on what he's learned in high school" few kids laugh, "I can't seem to reach him as he can only recall what he learned in his high school history class." He said all this in a joking matter, and I was the butt of the joke.


This made me really mad, I was at first shocked and I was like "this is a college professor, did he just do what i think he did?!"


Then he asked "they are long messages aren't they" biting my teach i said "yea I guess they are kind of lengthy."


I just sat there and gave him this dirty look throughout the class, and he saw it, but I was the fist person to be asked question throughout the rest of class, just to make things worse....ugh....

I can't believe that he brought that up like that, I feel it shows that since it's all a joke to him, he doesn't seem to care about students issues relate to the coarse, thus he isn't much of a teacher.

Anyone else have problems like this?

[azurette]

I've been singled out in my classes many times but not in the way that you have.
He's rude =/ I don't think you should e-mail him anymore...

[tsukemene123]

you'll have to deal with professors like this, unfortunately... professors are humans, too, and just like there are plenty of bubble gums in the general population, there are plenty of bubble gum professors.
i have one in mind at my college that i would particularly like to see fired for his disgusting behavior towards students and general disregard for a healthy classroom environment. i think the best you can do is grit your teeth and bear with it, or complain to the administration at your school.

[smileD]

You are not alone. I had always been a small person throughout my life. I always get picked on by my peers constantly but I would never thought a teacher would pick on me. He was talking to this one girl and said "I should hit you with something hard on the head". Then he looked at me and said, "I should take Sussie (not really my name) and swing her around my head and hit you with it". I was really upset and gave him dirty looks throught the class. He knew it too. I hate him since.

My second incident was in my art class. I wasn't sure what the assignment was but I started to work on the project anyways to keep myself busy because we aren't allowed to leave early (he took attendence). Apparently I didn't do the assignment correctly, he said "ARE YOU KIDDING ME...WHAT ARE YOU THINKING". He was yelling at me. The attention went all to me and I was so embarrassed. I started over started to draw lines on my paper. I was so mad that I was shaking so my lines were really crooked. He came back around and said "ARE YOU KIDDING ME!" I wanted to stab him with my pencil. I gave him dirty look then stopped looking at him, however, he had this guilty smirk on his face (my friend told me so). I couldn't take it so I left class early that day.

[meimei__KOUSEKI]

Ahh, that kind of professor will not survive here in my school. The students will definitely report him to the admins for verbal harassment (like this one time when i was a freshman... xD) Yeah, we got a teacher kicked out.

[lilian21]

Your professor was kind of a jerk for singling you out in class like that, but he wasn't verbally harrassing you or anything. It seems kind of like this professor doesn't want you in his class, given that you bombed 2 quizzes, and come to class late every day (even though it isn't your fault).

However, on the other side, you're in college now, not in high school. The fact that you did poorly on his tests just shows you didn't study enough, and you chose to write him emails trying to justify your test score by blaming it on high school. If this class is too advanced for you, you probably shouldn't be taking it. If you STILL want to take it, then you will just have to do the extra work required to catch up with the rest of the class. From what I understood, you spent more time reading on this things you're interested in than reading the things he assigned. What you should've done is went to his office hours, and talk with him about it in person. Rather than saying "I didn't get this far in high school, so that's why I did poorly", you could've said something like "I didn't do as well as I hoped on the past quizzes, I'd like to improve, is there any advice you have for me." I took an upper level genetics course at my college in my 4th year. I APed out of bio, so I the only genetics background I had was high school AP bio. I knew genetics is my weak area, so BEFORE the first test came up, I went up to my professor real quick and asked him is there any other sources he would recommend for me outside of the textbook. He simply said I go to office hours, and if the class is too fast, I'm probably not ready. No harm done. I ended up dropping the class, because I knew I wouldn't be able to catch up with all the bio majors in there. The bottom line is, in hs, you can say "I was sick so I can't do my hw", in college, professors don't care what happens, as long as you get the work done. I've had professors who literally said, "unless you're dying in the hospital, there's no excuse to miss an exam". You should get rid of your hs mentality if you expect to be respected by your professors. (I'm not trying to be mean or condescending, it's how life works.)

[justwildbeat]

First, the professor's comment about you was a bit of a low blow. While it never hurts to communicate with your professor, you are just giving long excuses on why you didn't perform well on the tests. Excuses won't get you the grade you want. So just take this as a lesson and try to work with your professor on how you can do better on the tests. Most professors are more than willing to help and give tips to a student who is proactive about it.

[eledoremassis02]

First, the professor's comment about you was a bit of a low blow. While it never hurts to communicate with your professor, you are just giving long excuses on why you didn't perform well on the tests. Excuses won't get you the grade you want. So just take this as a lesson and try to work with your professor on how you can do better on the tests. Most professors are more than willing to help and give tips to a student who is proactive about it.

Oh I know that, and I don't give the excuses to fix my grade. When I do bad I blame myself 100% but I wanted to make sure he knew I wasn't just blowing it off...not to mention the class recently found out that a good 90% of the class is failing, lucky I'm not one of those. Things seemed to cool down.

[NumbaOne]

Honestly I think you should confront him about it, if it really upset you. I mean college is no longer high school and I wouldn't consider professors to be at a significant higher authority than the students. (At least to me I'm trying to adjust to this as well, I am currently a freshman in college and having fellow students being older than me, sometimes even older than the professor is a bit of a culture shock...certainly such a student wouldn't take bullsh!t from a professor).
From what you've said, what your professor said would've offended me and was on level with a personal attack...if he didn't want to/ disliked reading it why mention it to the entire class, even in a casual anecdotal way? Did he not think it might be offensive to you? Frankly, he sounds like a thoughtless person. And the fact that he even made such a joke seems so high school. Those emails were written in confidentiality, though they were part of class discussion I still think he has no right to refer to them in such a public manner.
Certainly I don't mean to say you did no wrong...I mean you could've studied more for the topics he did discuss instead of going off on the topics you liked.

I think this might come off a bit strong, but I was just thinking of what I would do if something happened to me. Considering I also don't know the full details I might be interpreting the wrong way... so take of it what you will.

[eledoremassis02]

lol no I understand ya

I think the only thing you misread was, the tests were pop quizes the most of the class failed, and the things that i studied that were the topics I liked were the studied prior to college in between my last high school history and this current class (a 4 year span) lol

[janelleski]

i have experienced that.

i have this teacher during 2nd year. i, together with my friends, feel like she's singling out our group. so we went to the faculty room to ask her what's wrong. she said that it's nothing and all of us even agreed that the issue will end there. the following day, she told the story to the whole class. she didn't mention our names (out of respect?) but she definitely twisted the story. but our classmates already knew because we told them beforehand. she keeps on singling out our group (particularly 2 of my friends) - on reports, recitation, etc. then on thesis proposal, she purposely finished the group ahead of us in a few minutes so that she can fully criticize our work. but before that, she purposely helped the group whom i'm intensely questioning.

see how fair she is? we do not understand why she did that when she can tell us face-to-face the problem. why can't she? the bickering got worse after that.

anyway, she didn't succeed in embarrassing me. i remember i reported something regarding statistics and computations, she keeps on asking yet i keep on answering plus giving additional information. moreover, my visuals are just the formulas. and after my report i said, "if you have questions, feel free to raise them before i give the floor to the next reporter".

by the way, she isn't a math teacher that's why i owned! hahaha xD