in other news, I am old and cranky
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A bunch of lazy assholes who don't deserve to graduate! :D
"My average class size is 115" "18% of my teachers know my name"
CRY MORE
College students should not require a class with no more than 14 other students and a teacher who's going to hold their hand and make sure they get their homework done and care about their feelings. If you want the instructors to know your name then freaking show up for office hours.
"I Facebook through most of my classes" "I buy hundred dollar textbooks that I never open" "I will read 8 books this year"
I have zero sympathy. These things are all fully under the students' control.
I worked my ass off on my double major and I'm incensed that these entitlement-complex-having students think their poor performance means school needs to be made easier for them. That somehow the fact that they do a half-assed job or don't show up at all is the school's fault.
Yes, debt from student loans is a big problem but that was only mentioned very briefly. The message of this video seems to be that a college environment where you actually have to try hard and learn things doesn't work for lazy bastards, and we need to do a better job of catering to the lazy bastard demographic.
Naturally, they don't propose or even hint at any solutions. Just have a bunch of sullen-faced - and 100% white, I couldn't help noticing - college kids hold up self-pitying, pithy little handwritten signs. That'll solve everything!
A bunch of lazy assholes who don't deserve to graduate! :D
"My average class size is 115" "18% of my teachers know my name"
CRY MORE
College students should not require a class with no more than 14 other students and a teacher who's going to hold their hand and make sure they get their homework done and care about their feelings. If you want the instructors to know your name then freaking show up for office hours.
"I Facebook through most of my classes" "I buy hundred dollar textbooks that I never open" "I will read 8 books this year"
I have zero sympathy. These things are all fully under the students' control.
I worked my ass off on my double major and I'm incensed that these entitlement-complex-having students think their poor performance means school needs to be made easier for them. That somehow the fact that they do a half-assed job or don't show up at all is the school's fault.
Yes, debt from student loans is a big problem but that was only mentioned very briefly. The message of this video seems to be that a college environment where you actually have to try hard and learn things doesn't work for lazy bastards, and we need to do a better job of catering to the lazy bastard demographic.
Naturally, they don't propose or even hint at any solutions. Just have a bunch of sullen-faced - and 100% white, I couldn't help noticing - college kids hold up self-pitying, pithy little handwritten signs. That'll solve everything!
