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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tejek who wrote (496046)	7/17/2009 3:51:23 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577984

I suppose it depends on the classes you're taking in CC. I mostly took programming classes for various computer languages. Many of the students in those classes could have TAUGHT classes in the computer languages they knew.

To: tejek who wrote (496046)	7/17/2009 4:07:50 PM
From: one_less	Respond to of 1577984

They can be and they can even offer more rigorous standards since some of them consider a CC position as number 2 compared to University Profs. They are sometimes trying to prove they are as good or better than the people in the number 1 slot. They do prove it sometimes too. I taught at a University, that had been converted from a state college, when I was young. It was a place where the students considered the school to be a party school with the inflated 'A' grade to be a guarantee. When a couple of coeds who'd earned a C in my class came in to negotiate at the end of the Semester, they were disappointed by my lack of accommodation. I offered them options and alternatives to raise their score which required effort equivalent to the other students who had earned an A during the previous weeks. They refused the offer so I refused to change their grades. They went to the department head who called me in for a 'discussion' about sensitivity. I told him he was welcome to change the grades for whatever reasons he felt justified but I wouldn't touch them. That was the last time I taught for the guy. I probably cost him a night out with coeds or something. I had a bright future waiting elsewhere though. No regrets.