- Jan 5, 2011
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Got this email today from my english teacher.... :jawdrop:
(It's long but it's a quite entertaining read I promise)
I read it and was SHOCKED... does anyone else find parts of this to be a bit rude?
While I agree with her sentiments (it is beyond annoying that college level students can't write papers AT ALL these days), if I was her student I would be outraged at the atrocious grammar in this. Seriously... Outraged. Why is she a teacher if she can't put together an email without at least 25 grammatical errors in it?
I think I'd print this email out, grade it in red ink (circling and correcting every error), and give it to her and her supervisor - and then ask her does she really want to fuss about the bad papers. If the TEACHER can't write, how can the students be expected to?
Side note: what kind of unprofessional moron needs to ask their supervisor what to do about grading some bad papers? Give the bad grades and keep moving.
Better solution: give each paper the grade it deserves. As she's handing them back, say, "Some of you probably won't be happy with your grade. Please bring your paper and a printed copy of the rubric with you to my office during office hours and we can go over it, so you can see why you received the grade that you did." And if she's so worried about it, THEN give people a chance to earn back a few points.
I'm so over teachers babying college kids. Stop worrying about hurting someone's feelings and give them an F if they deserve it. (and hey, supervisors, stop pressuring these teachers to pass students to keep your numbers up, or to keep someone playing a sport. If they don't know their info, make them go back and learn it.) This is how we end up with teachers who can't spell or write. She probably had a bunch of teachers who were afraid to give her a big fat F on her writing too.
Sorry for the rant, but good lord our education system is such a joke now. I swear in the "Education" section on my resume I want to put "Never bothered to finish my degree, because I learned more in high school than most kids learn in 4 years of college now."
Anyway... Yes the email is rude. Yes it's unprofessional.
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