Yeah. When I taught at Temple I had death threats for giving a bad grade. It is sort of amazing how colleges have competed for kids' dimes over the past couple decades--over half the teaching staff is now part time or otherwise temporary by design, but they keep building bigger gyms and fancier dorms.
Education has become just another profit center and nobody seems to think the education part is what they are paying for. I had some kids who really wanted to learn, but a hell of a lot of them came in thinking they knew all they ever needed and were just here for the beer and the paper at the end.
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Education has become just another profit center and nobody seems to think the education part is what they are paying for. I had some kids who really wanted to learn, but a hell of a lot of them came in thinking they knew all they ever needed and were just here for the beer and the paper at the end.