4 Professors Who Deserve to Get The Boot

April 28, 2010 12:00 pm     Posted in Entertainment, HaHa, Reality  Jessica- FIT g+ page

"What do you mean, you didn't have time to complete the 750 pages of reading for today?"

Remember in high school when you and all of your friends failed the same exam and you were convinced it was the teacher’s fault?  “She never taught ANY of this stuff “ you bantered.  In a fit of rage, you stormed to an advisor to make a complaint.  You knew something had to be done about this dreadful teacher, and you were certain that if enough of you joined together, the school would surely do away with her. Your concerns were heard, but most likely, nothing was done.


By Jessica

For students at Louisiana State University, their wishes came true.  Recently, a professor was actually dismissed for grading too hard.

Victory at last!
Students’ voices are finally being heard!

Maybe this is a sign of good things to come. Maybe now is our time to finally speak up and rid universities across the country of those notoriously evil teachers who make us wonder how they got the job in the first place.  The hard graders are at the tops of all our lists, but here are a few other profs who should also get the boot. Are you listening, Dean of Students?!

1. The Ancient
The teachers who can’t control their bodily functions and tell you that your father was just a joy to have in class. They still use ditto machines and think a Power Point is something you do with your finger and a stern look on your face. And email? Is that something you can do with a typewriter?

2. The Foreign Tongue
Accents are sexy on the likes of Antonio Banderas and Heidi Klum, but not on your Physics prof or Stats T.A. How are we expected to learn anything when we can barely understand the guy’s name?!

3. The Delusional
Everyone’s had that one professor who thinks his/her class is the only one you happen to be taking. Of course you’d have all the time in the world to read 400 pages a night and turn in weekly 5-page papers. It’s not like you’ve got anything else more important than this class you wouldn’t have taken if it weren’t required for those stupid distribution requirements.

4. The Inflexible
You may be paralyzed by the Swine Flu, or stuck at an airport due to volcanic eruption after your aunt’s funeral, but your absence is still unexcused and you’ll have to accept a zero on that day’s test. Sorry, but it’s in the syllabus.

15 Comments on "4 Professors Who Deserve to Get The Boot"

  1. Jennifer says:
    Wed, 28th Apr 20107:31 am 

    that is so true. but i mean, the ancient professors… i disagree slightly on that. they have a bigger insight to the world and technology… i mean, it is essential but not for learning.

    my friend has a history teacher who is real good, but doesn't allow laptops to "blend in" with what they're learning.

    but other than that…

    i think that TA's who think they're above you should be up there (even if they aren't professors). most are grad students who clearly think that they are above you…

    and i mean, for example, i had a real good poli sci professor, but a DB of a TA… he graded our tests as if they were like grad student essays or something… my friend in another TA's class got an A while i barely passed… and IT'S A GRADUATION REQUIREMENT to pass that class… not to mention, it was something i was good at. so yeah. there's my 10 cents on that…

    but 3 and 4 i highly agree with. definitely.

  2. criolle johnny says:
    Wed, 28th Apr 20108:54 am 

    Add the political Marxist/Nazi/Hun/Liberal/Conservative/Born-Again/Feminist/or whatever … who demands a paper that agrees with his/her position IN YOUR NAME.

    This puts you on record agreeing with his/her position for life.

    You may not submit a differing opinion. You may not cite authorities outside of "approved" references.

    RESISTANCE IS FUTILE

    I don't care what side of the aisle the prof comes from, I want to hear intelligent debate!

  3. nessa says:
    Wed, 28th Apr 20109:38 am 

    Or the history professor that responds

    "It's funny that you as a black person would care so much."

    When you ask a question about why no one batted an eyelash that 40 million people were killed during the holocaust.

  4. Sam says:
    Wed, 28th Apr 201010:11 am 

    I definitely agree Criolle Johnny, I had to write a paper like that on Ronald Reagan this semester and to put it nicely, I don't like the man, and yet I had to write a paper talking about how he was the best President ever. Yuck.

    I've also had a Professor who literally wrote the text book he required for class and for every exam our answers had to be word for word or else he would deduct points. The best part was when someone brought up that he had told us to go by what his book said when studying for the finals, but yet when we did that, he marked an answer wrong and said that we should have went by what he said in class. He was a big prick on an ego trip.

  5. L says:
    Wed, 28th Apr 201010:20 am 

    I think #2 should be replaced with some of the other suggestions made here. I've had some foreign professors and TAs and too many people used their accent as an excuse for why they were having trouble with the class. I realize that there are professors/TAs who are truly difficult to understand, but most of the time there can be clear communication between the students and the professor. It just takes a little effort.

  6. Aristo says:
    Wed, 28th Apr 201010:52 am 

    @ #2 Uh, wow. Xenophobe much? Not everyone in the world is a white American named John Smith. Get over it, or move to a small town in the Midwest and never leave.

  7. P says:
    Wed, 28th Apr 20104:40 pm 

    Oh come on, it's not xenophobic. I met a professor on vacation a month ago, and I could BARELY understand him. My mother and I agreed afterwards that we would have hated to have him as a professor in college. And I'm used to accents, as both my parents and the rest of my family are from Eastern Europe.

  8. Megan says:
    Wed, 28th Apr 20106:36 pm 

    Hah, these are so true. I have a professor right now (he would probably fall under the ancient category) who gives us assignments but never gives a due date or asks us to turn them in. The tests are the worst – he re-uses tests & study guides even though he'll get a new textbook for the class. So, the tests don't match up what he study in the textbook and people end up doing poorly.

  9. emily says:
    Wed, 28th Apr 20109:43 pm 

    I don't think # 2 is xenophobic either. I had a professor last semester with a thick accent who was super difficult to understand. Not only that, but when you asked her to repeat something she would get annoyed and refuse. It was awful!

  10. Aristo says:
    Thu, 29th Apr 20107:05 am 

    I'm referring to that "when we can barely understand the guy’s name" bit. OH HAHA, FOREIGN PEOPLE HAVE DIFFERENT NAMES THAN ME, HOW CAN I UNDERSTAND THEM WHEN THEIR NAMES SOUND FOREIGN, WOE IS ME. I'd imagine attitudes like this are a major reason why this country's foreign relations are so poor.

  11. the violator says:
    Mon, 3rd May 201010:31 pm 

    i had a computer prof whom i could not understand- well maybe about every 4th or 5th word and try to fill in the rest and hope it worked. it was awful.

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