Kiki
New Yorker
Alright, so I'm in class on Saturday's. I work during the week and I'm off on the weekends. So I tell my boss's last week that I'm in school again. Thought there was no problem. Well Monday comes around this past week and the one doc ends up giving me problems about my class on Saturday and suddenly "needs" me here today. Fine, I gave in because I sort of felt like it was going to put my job on the line.
I email my teacher on Monday first thing, let her know that I have this situation. I can be in class from 8-8:40, then I have to leave, and I'll come back at 10:50 to finish the lecture, then go to the lab. I asked her in the email if my partner and I could go first with our presentation for the extra credit. She emails me back, says she's trying to understand my situation and yes she'll make an exception this time, but not to let any of the other students know she's doing me this favour.
---Ok this is her first year teaching at this college. She has 2 MD degree's behind her and has studied at Oxford. She's originally from India, so she can be a little difficult to understand at times as she has 3 different accents coming out all mixed in to one unique accent.
Anyway, we had our first test last Saturday. I reminded her this morning that she said we could go first with our presentation. Ok no problem she says.
We get in to the class, suddenly she starts arguing with some of the other students about our test grades. She ends it by saying we're not getting our tests back--therefore we can't see what we got wrong. She tells everyone they can come up and see their grades. Well she does this and doesnt hide everyone elses grades. In fact she points out what other peoples grades were!!!!!!!!
I was freaking pissed at this point.
Well 8:40 rolls around and she's started class and won't look at me or anything. So I told my partner that if she calls her up, she can take my notes and get all the extra credit for herself and I'll take a zero and argue with the teacher later.
So now Im here at work contemplating just what to do and if I'm wrong in thinking I should go to the Dean. This teacher hasn't given out a syllabus. She came right out and said today, "All you need to know for these exams is right in your book. Know your book and not your notes and not what we do in class, and you'll get A's on the tests. It's not my fault if you didn't study for the test."
Well.....I studied my ass off. Ask me anything about blood or the heart and I can tell you. Ask me things that we never covered and that were NOT in our chapters we read---but in later chapters in the book.....and yeah I'm not going to know it!!! So this one outspoken girl in the class raised that as a question, "Then why do we waste our time being here for class on Saturday's? If all we need to do is study the book....why are we wasting our time?"
The teacher recanted then, but ended up crossing the line in my opinoin.
She said this word for word, "If you did not get an A or a B on the test, then you are not a good student and the test proved you did not study, therefore on the next exams you will only do worse then you've done on this exam. You will not make it in the medical field as you are not a good student."
WHAT????????????????? I'm sorry....I'm 26 years old and 6 years ago I was in the nursing program. I walked away from it. It wasnt right for me at that time. I had been through all these classes before. I've done this shit. I know what kind of a student I was then, I never studied, I just skimmed my way through the tests. It wasnt that I was stupid back then, and now that I'm actually working my butt off to study, every single night-----EVERY NIGHT I get up and lock myself in another room, taking 2 to 3 hours a night away from me spending time with my husband, after I've already worked a 9 hour day, and you want to stand there and tell me because I got a C on a test that I'm stupid and I don't study???????? What the hell??
I'm so pissed off right now. I'm ready to argue her big time and I don't usually stand up to teachers like that.
UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!
I email my teacher on Monday first thing, let her know that I have this situation. I can be in class from 8-8:40, then I have to leave, and I'll come back at 10:50 to finish the lecture, then go to the lab. I asked her in the email if my partner and I could go first with our presentation for the extra credit. She emails me back, says she's trying to understand my situation and yes she'll make an exception this time, but not to let any of the other students know she's doing me this favour.
---Ok this is her first year teaching at this college. She has 2 MD degree's behind her and has studied at Oxford. She's originally from India, so she can be a little difficult to understand at times as she has 3 different accents coming out all mixed in to one unique accent.
Anyway, we had our first test last Saturday. I reminded her this morning that she said we could go first with our presentation. Ok no problem she says.
We get in to the class, suddenly she starts arguing with some of the other students about our test grades. She ends it by saying we're not getting our tests back--therefore we can't see what we got wrong. She tells everyone they can come up and see their grades. Well she does this and doesnt hide everyone elses grades. In fact she points out what other peoples grades were!!!!!!!!
I was freaking pissed at this point.
Well 8:40 rolls around and she's started class and won't look at me or anything. So I told my partner that if she calls her up, she can take my notes and get all the extra credit for herself and I'll take a zero and argue with the teacher later.
So now Im here at work contemplating just what to do and if I'm wrong in thinking I should go to the Dean. This teacher hasn't given out a syllabus. She came right out and said today, "All you need to know for these exams is right in your book. Know your book and not your notes and not what we do in class, and you'll get A's on the tests. It's not my fault if you didn't study for the test."
Well.....I studied my ass off. Ask me anything about blood or the heart and I can tell you. Ask me things that we never covered and that were NOT in our chapters we read---but in later chapters in the book.....and yeah I'm not going to know it!!! So this one outspoken girl in the class raised that as a question, "Then why do we waste our time being here for class on Saturday's? If all we need to do is study the book....why are we wasting our time?"
The teacher recanted then, but ended up crossing the line in my opinoin.
She said this word for word, "If you did not get an A or a B on the test, then you are not a good student and the test proved you did not study, therefore on the next exams you will only do worse then you've done on this exam. You will not make it in the medical field as you are not a good student."
WHAT????????????????? I'm sorry....I'm 26 years old and 6 years ago I was in the nursing program. I walked away from it. It wasnt right for me at that time. I had been through all these classes before. I've done this shit. I know what kind of a student I was then, I never studied, I just skimmed my way through the tests. It wasnt that I was stupid back then, and now that I'm actually working my butt off to study, every single night-----EVERY NIGHT I get up and lock myself in another room, taking 2 to 3 hours a night away from me spending time with my husband, after I've already worked a 9 hour day, and you want to stand there and tell me because I got a C on a test that I'm stupid and I don't study???????? What the hell??
I'm so pissed off right now. I'm ready to argue her big time and I don't usually stand up to teachers like that.
UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!