Signs of a Bad Professor

[ancientsheikahgamer]

If you have a teacher like this, I wish you luck

[Vrtual_stuff]

“This class is so hard, Students usually fail”
Yeah I can tell why dude ☠️

[memy]

I never get professors/teachers bragging about how many people fail like doesn't that just mean you're shit at your job?

[kubamarzec]

This is literally the exact description of a teacher I had in high school.

[Allrounder]

"There's no such thing as a bad
student, only a bad teacher"
–Sun Tzu (Art of War)

[Ken_]

Profesor:Most student don't pass
Student:Yeah i think i know why

[NathanHome-hm]

If you think about it this is like a nurse saying “Most people don’t live when they come to this hospital”

[hmt.n]

We all have this one guy as the professor.

[ItsJustVin]

If your teacher ever mentions that it's hard to pass their class, it's solely because they are the literal worst at teaching the subject

[NotAverageSwede]

Cold calls are the WORST, makes the class 10x more annoying.

[sreyashhossain]

When that professor is the professor of what you wanted to major in...

[spend]

“My class is hard, a lot of students don’t pass” is just the long way of saying “I shouldn’t be a teacher”

[Ember_Prime]

My worst professor so far didn’t fit many of these other than the email.
This is what he did consistently, and this is an example from one of the actual lectures:
We were covering non-chord tones (I’m a music major), and we were in Chapter 12. While on Chapter 12, he’s drawing something from Chapter 8 on the board, while also explaining something from Chapter 9 that supposedly fit into the lecture, even though he didn’t explain why it was supposed to fit.

[DungTrươngthị-th]

If thats truly your professor, R.I.P your college life

[TequilaMockingBird]

My psychology professor was absolutely horrible. Her canvas was extremely disorganized and it was abundantly clear that she doesn’t even look at it. On the second day of class, I asked her in the middle of class to clarify about an upcoming essay because her syllabus that she gave us in class said we were going to be doing a personality test and then writing a summary of that as our essay. However, the module on her canvas said something completely different. (I want to say it was an essay about classical conditioning). She looked at me very quizzically and it was kinda awkward having to explain to her like she was 5 what her own canvas page said….then she straight up admitted that the canvas page wasn’t set up by her at all and that she just “took over whoever taught the course previously” (literally, her verbatim words)

She constantly yells at us and tells us how “disappointed” she is of some of our test results, and then it turned out that she was confusing our class with another class of hers. Sometimes she’d teach farther ahead in the textbook, sometimes she’d repeat a lesson. Again, all because she mix and matches her classes and couldn’t remember where she’d left off with us.

But the nail in the coffin for me was her so called “extra credit”. She offered “extra credit” to incentivize class engagement and old. Discussions. She only offered up to 10 extra credit points, but it was still pretty cool.

Or….at least it WOULD be cool if she coded the extra credit points properly in her grade book. Instead of framing it as “10/0 points” for extra credit, she added the denominator so that it would be “10/10” points. In other words, because she added extra credit as part of “total points available” in stead of “total points earned”, canvas didn’t know that “extra credit” was extra credit at all; as far as canvas knows, “extra credit” is just another assignment.

So I’m fairly introverted but I don’t mind grabbing some extra credit, especially if I know the answer. I’ve managed to grab 3 extra credit points for the semester. Not bad. But canvas converted that 3/10 as a grade of “30” on an assignment. This alone dropped my grade down to a B for a semester.

I was pissed. I had a firm, but polite conversation with the Dean to get this corrected because I no longer trusted the capabilities of this professor.

[burtlux]

Teachers not realising that most of their students not passing is in fact not a flex

[Godios]

I had a teacher so bad that his name was infamous among anyone who had to take calculus 2. If you went to my school, and you took calc 2, you knew who he was if or if not he was your professor. The semester I had him there were 44 students in his class and by the time we took finals there were 8 left. By far the most difficult class I’ve ever taken; he treated that calc 2 course like it was a graduate level course. How do I know this? My grandfather got his PhD in mathematics and was a professor for calc 2 at another university, and I showed him some of the integrals we were doing and he said there was no way he would give his students problems that hard. I was the only student to get an A in his class that semester, and it was absolute hell.

[_Mouth]

I had a teacher once, she did not care if you were sleeping in the class, she would just open the slides AND TELL US TO READ IT AND EXPLAIN IT. i kidd you not it took a month to complete 1 CHAPTER WHICH WAS THE FIRST HISTORY CHAPTER. Literally mental

[AdoreTimes]

These are very helpful details For people starting college

[RAIN_BT]

all props to my teacher back then, kept getting in trouble internally cuz he felt its more important to teach us certain things about life i can still yield from in everyday life but due to that he was various times behind the actual schedule.. a breed of hero we need more of, specially those days!