I just dropped my math class

[Tonichelle]

I couldn't take the Prof anymore. He looked at me on Tuesday and said that I should never have been admitted into the university when I asked -apparently- a bone headed question.

Maybe other's can take the blunt critique, but I can't. I'll just take it this summer.

 

[swizzletwizzle]

Aw, I'm sorry your math Prof was such a jerk. He should have had some more class than that, because that was just out of line. Maybe you can take a different Prof next time.

 

[Tonichelle]

yeah I'll definitely take from someone else.

this last comment was just the last straw. I seriously can't learn the way he 'coaches'

 

[penguin girl]

Dr. Tough Love, huh? He sounds like a nightmare. Don't feel bad. I FAILED out of trig twice when I was an undergrad. I had to drop it both times b/c I just couldn't do it, and my teacher wasn't bad. Let's just say I'm not a mathematician.

 

[Mathman]

That was an atrocious pedagogical miscue by the professor. When a student asks a question, the first thing you say is, "Wow, thanks for bringing that up. That is the very point on which this whole topic turns!" (And indeed, the more elementary the question, the more this statement is true.)

I have been doing this for 35 years. I can absolutely assure you that if a "bonehead" question occured to you in a math classs, then at least two-thirds of the class had the same question but were afraid to ask.

Teachers need input like that to know when the class's sails are drooping and a new tack is required, one promising a fresher breeze.

 

[Antilles]

Sheesh. Why teach if you have an obvious disdain for students? Math is a particularly difficult subject for a lot of students to grasp. A math teacher needs to have a lot of patience to deal with struggling students.

Toni, I had a French prof just like that at university. I also dropped the course. There is no need for that type of disrespect.

 

[Tonichelle]

Mathman - I don't know if you saw my first thread on my math prof, his first day of class he told us he was not here to teach, he was basically a coach. If we had problems with the lessons we didn't belong in the class and we had to hire a tutor because he was not going to go at a slower pace and hold our hand. He spends one day to 'lecture' (which is normally a tirade on how dumb his students in past classes were) and then the next class is a test.

when the whole class failed the first test (save for the small few who did get math tutors) he gloated saying he KNEW that we'd fail because students today just don't meet up to college standards.

back in 'his day' they had to take IQ tests to get into college... according to him. That we're all babied so much we don't know how to work.

I was going to try and prove him wrong, but I just can't take being told 'you're stupid' all the time. I have a hard enough time with math as it is. I know I'm a math dunce, I don't need the reminder covered in disdain.

 

[cassieandcheetah]

I couldn't take the Prof anymore. He looked at me on Tuesday and said that I should never have been admitted into the university when I asked -apparently- a bone headed question.

Maybe other's can take the blunt critique, but I can't. I'll just take it this summer.

You're kidding!!!! What was that about? You should totally report this person and have him discpliined...this is terrible...where do you go to school?

 

[dlkksk8fan]

Toni-
when I was in college (some time ago) I had a English professor tell me I was illiterate. She had graded a paper I had wrote writting some very nasty comments. I was devastated and almost dropped out of school. Luckily I stayed in school and got my degree.

No question is "bone head".

 

[Tonichelle]

You're kidding!!!! What was that about? You should totally report this person and have him discpliined...this is terrible...where do you go to school?

University of Alaska, Anchorage. He's the only prof I've dealt with in 4 years that is like this. Most are a lot of fun. I have one this semester that's totaly anti-University crap... and rags on our University. He works your butt off, but it's stuff that's WORTH it...


he likes my skating photos too, so he's awesome in my book (he REALLY likes Tanith )

 

[babyoscar]

professor

I had a professor like your math professor when I was in college. He said some not very nice things to me. I wasn't as fortunate though, he was the only one teaching the required subjects so it was either deal with him or change the major. After taking his class on different subjects few times, I learned how to deal with people who may not see things the same way I do. I learned a LOT from him though, more or less how to work with people than the class subject itself. Now it is really hard to get me angry when people say very rude things to me. And yes, I have had some very rude comments from people.

 

[iluvtodd]

You're kidding!!!! What was that about? You should totally report this person and have him discpliined...this is terrible...where do you go to school?

What a jerk! I hope he gets disciplined severely.

 

[dorispulaski]

I hope you can take the class from a different professor next time. If he's your only choice, you might want to take the class at a different college or junior college over the summer and transfer the credit over.

Boy, does this bring back bad memories. I dropped a math course once, because the professor behaved very similarly. I switched my major to physics. (You could not avoid classes with this bozo and major in math at university Vermont.)

Some years later, the professor was fired. It seemed that the whole thing was a dodge to swap his personal math tutoring for sexual favors from female students.

The reason I'm telling you this story, is don't feel that you're stupid or boneheaded at math because of this bozo. You don't know what his deal is now, but you may find out later. Have faith in yourself!

 

[sillylionlove]

Sorry to hear about your experience. I would report this professor to university officials.

 

[dizzydi7]

Tonichelle,

Isn't it interesting that this professor (who has such a high regard for himself) doesn't understand that he is the employee and the students his employer. What would happen to this pompous man if all his students withdrew from his classes?

Who is the moron in this scenario?

Dizzy

 

[NJSk8Fan]

He doesn't sound like anyone who should be teaching...no "teacher" (or professor or coach) has a right to treat someone that way.

 

[Dee4707]

That was an atrocious pedagogical miscue by the professor.

Huh???@@!!!###

Dee

 

[Mathman]

^ Its one of my pet peeves. If there's one thing I can't stand it's an atrocious pedogogical miscue! My dad didn't like 'em, my grandpa didn't like 'em, and I'm durned if I like 'em, either!