Friday, October 19, 2012

Teacher Tragedy

The Power and Possibility of a Slippery Slope                                                                                                                                                                       
How one event in your day can possibly change and affect the rest of your life.
Frustration in the school and workplace for college working students

“I decided to take a Shakespeare Tragedy course even though Rate My Professors advised me against doing so.”


As an Education English major, I have to take this course in order to graduate.  I found a class that worked perfectly with my schedule and signed up for it.  I always check RateMyProfessors to see how difficult my teacher will be.  When I checked for this class, I saw that my teacher had a terrible rating.  It said the class was unfair, demanding, has a heavy workload, and that you are not allowed to have a different opinion from the instructor.

Against my better judgment, I decided to take this class so I could sleep in.  I did not mind doing extra work because I enjoy reading and was excited to read the famous tragedies.  On the first day of class she told us that we would be reading 9 tragedies.  As I wrote down the titles and wondered what they would be about, my teacher told me exactly how each novel ended.

It is the first day of class and she ruined every book we have to read!  She ruined every ending for all 9 Shakespeare tragedies, so now I have no initiative to actually read the text.  I was expecting a teacher that would assign a lot of work, which she did, not a teacher that purposely gave away the ending to each novel we would be reading. 

“Now I know to listen to RateMyProfessors to avoid teachers that take away any desire to read the class material.”

(http://ww4.hdnux.com/photos/15/52/53/3582683/3/628x471.jpg) (no more reading!)

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