alírio

i am just here to complain

i am being informed i have rudely insinuated university administrators are not people

there’s an arts teacher I’ve taken classes with for years now, and lots of students come once and have very negative reactions to her method, and then there’s us loyal regulars who whisper among each other “but she’s the only teacher who actually teaches you how to get better”

it should not be the student's job to manage pedagogy, any more than it should be the student's job to teach the class

now this doesn't mean gauging student learning is useless--but there are more reliable metrics. assignments/tests with weirdly poor performance can trigger faculty monitoring

its very hard to tell apart students complaining because they are unhappy and students complaining because they've been wronged. someone with more experience has to adjudicate. so they should be called in sooner

the admin and presumably the faculty in the department

my point isn't that you shouldn't have written a critical eval. quite the contrary. my point is the administration threw off their responsibility to your learning by leaving it to the evals

i had a couple lie about my freaking punctuality in the second of a back-to-back in a classroom i never left. it’s absolutely terrifying out there.

tbf, and this is a skill issue, i sometimes fall into the escapism trap. one thing that always pull me back to the ground is, apparently, my deep hatred for this world.

most of what i say isn't official mimbres school policy, but this is: we don't do "student feedback." It isn't the job of students to know what's good for them. If the students want the product, they buy it, if not they don't. nobody's ever asked for a class refund.