Never a Dull Moment
We had us a good ol' time at ITT this week! When was the last time your teacher idly talked smack about a student to the entire class with the student in the room?
This particular teacher is a general education teacher, and has a reputation for being "unorthodox." Which of course is really just a nice way of saying he's a crack pot who uses his teacher status as a podium to spout his personal views about random things; most of which is about stuff he hates. You DO want to sit in class for hours listening to some old guy ramble about gay marriage and minorities and women's rights, right?
For example, the latest incident before this one was a female student complaining to the Dean that the teacher was sexist and rude. The guy apparently thought it was a good idea to lecture about how weak women are, and how they would all be sex slaves and raped constantly if the worlds civil structure broke down. Just what you were expecting to hear about in a statistics class right?
And Then!
So that brings us to tonight. One of the more advanced students (has a bunch of IT certs, works in the field, and even teaches some courses himself) asks the teacher about a missing grade on his grade sheet. The teacher says he does not have the paper, but if the student reprints it and hands it in he will update the grade. Normal so far.
So the student goes back to his seat and sits there quietly. Then out of no where the teacher just starts talking out loud, almost to himself but loud enough for all to hear.
"You know I've been a teacher for 30+ years and never lost a paper, not once."
No response from the class.
"Every year though some students swear they have handed in work that I don't have, and like I said I have never ever lost a paper."
One student asks if he can walk on water too? Everyone laughs and it's quiet again for a few minutes, then he starts up again.
"It's just very suspicious to me that I've never lost a paper, so my track record is pretty good wouldn't you say? But some student always says they handed something in and I lost it, isn't that suspicious?"
Now lets ignore everything about this for a moment except for one thing. Never? NEVER? REALLY? Perhaps you have students complain every year because you are actually losing papers? Obviously some of the time that's bullshit, but what about the student who always turns in every paper every time? You never lose anything, and they never forget to hand anything in.... who's wrong?
SO...
At this point the student who was just asking about a missing grade loses it and starts to go off on the teacher about his obvious attacks. Telling him that he is the most unprofessional teacher he's ever had at ITT and that it's ridiculous that he's expected to sit there and say nothing while the teacher goes on and on, basically calling him a liar to the entire class. Which of course led to the teacher and him getting into a huge pissing match about one getting the other removed from the class, with loads of F bombs for all. Then the teacher stormed out of the room to get the Dean, and the student apologized for his language to the class and left as well.
The Dean of course was not in, since none of the high level staff at ITT is ever around past 4ish, and the teacher came back as if nothing had happen and continued his normal lecture.
The Moral
Are you sick of being treated like an adult? Find yourself awake at night wishing someone would disrespect you in front of large groups of people? Want teachers that are never ever wrong, and never lose anything, ever, no-seriously-not-ever? Have the ability to write personal checks for large amounts? Come to ITT Tech!
*Update for this coming soon! I got into my own battle with this guy the very next week, and it got to the point where I had to involve the director for the entire school. Will update once it's all taken care of. *
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