What Made you Smile/What Ticked you off Today?

[dsheinem]

I remember going into a class in college and being told that no matter what are grades were, the professor intended to fail half the class. There were 9 of us, so he said he would pass 5 and fail 4 based on the order of our grades regardless of how well we did.

That dude sounds awesome

[MrPopo]

I remember going into a class in college and being told that no matter what are grades were, the professor intended to fail half the class. There were 9 of us, so he said he would pass 5 and fail 4 based on the order of our grades regardless of how well we did.

Ugh, that's the worst. I've seen some companies do something similar with their performance reviews; the bottom 10% of the company goes on the shit list and will probably get canned, even if the company is staffed with a bunch of amazing people. There's always going to be a bottom X% thanks to basic math; it seems dumb to punish them.

[Ack]

I remember going into a class in college and being told that no matter what are grades were, the professor intended to fail half the class. There were 9 of us, so he said he would pass 5 and fail 4 based on the order of our grades regardless of how well we did.

That dude sounds awesome

They should institute a similar rule for your job performance then. Only half the professors keep their jobs at the end of the year depending on how well their students did.

[dsheinem]

I remember going into a class in college and being told that no matter what are grades were, the professor intended to fail half the class. There were 9 of us, so he said he would pass 5 and fail 4 based on the order of our grades regardless of how well we did.

That dude sounds awesome

They should institute a similar rule for your job performance then. Only half the professors keep their jobs at the end of the year depending on how well their students did.

Pfft. Tenure, d00d.

[Forlorn Drifter]

Smile:
Alright! My Southern Live Oak Trees are thriving through this hot Texas summer. I have two young oaks planted last year & they almost didn't make it due to being transported & planted during the summer.

Nice! They look good.

I'm 50/50 on that though, I love trees, and once a Live Oak gets set its hard to kill... but the rancher in me has a knee-jerk hatred reaction to those damn things.

Just don't ever plant a cedar. That's just a crime against nature.

[Ack]

They should institute a similar rule for your job performance then. Only half the professors keep their jobs at the end of the year depending on how well their students did.

Pfft. Tenure, d00d.

...has just been revoked!

Honestly, it was a terrible class. Honors Physics II. I remember walking in one morning and the professor announcing we were screwed if we hadn't already taken classes on differential equations. Eventually a friend and I started going to test preps while drunk. I passed with a 44. He failed with a 42. The highest grade in the class was sub-65. Most of the kids who were in it dropped out of the honors program immediately after. I never took another science class. It ruined physics for me, as well as math.

[MrPopo]

They should institute a similar rule for your job performance then. Only half the professors keep their jobs at the end of the year depending on how well their students did.

Pfft. Tenure, d00d.

...has just been revoked!

Don't you think shooting Dave is a tad over the top?

[o.pwuaioc]

I remember going into a class in college and being told that no matter what are grades were, the professor intended to fail half the class. There were 9 of us, so he said he would pass 5 and fail 4 based on the order of our grades regardless of how well we did.

That dude sounds awesome

They should institute a similar rule for your job performance then. Only half the professors keep their jobs at the end of the year depending on how well their students did.

They already do, except the students' performance is irrelevant. Tenure is for the ones that pass. Another year of adjuncting is granted to the failures.

[Ack]

What are the rules for tenure? I've seen some incredibly crappy professors get it and some wonderful processors not get it and have to move elsewhere. Is it based on publications?

[Jmustang1968]

What are the rules for tenure? I've seen some incredibly crappy professors get it and some wonderful processors not get it and have to move elsewhere. Is it based on publications?

I also think that system is flawed. Some of my best professors in college werent tenured while some of my worst dont give a F profs were. Some seemed to look down upon teaching an undergrad class and probably more interested in research and such.