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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
i'm never going back to school unless it's to teach but a dissertation is expensive to write, the pay is shit after all the effort, and american college brats are lazy and spoiled. so most likely it won't happen
like the student who asks what do they have to do to get an A in the course. i say read the syllabus, do all the assignments, learn the material, write something good. the student then pouts and looks disoriented. like his mammy abandoned him in the park.
wastes of my time. fuck'em.
in all honesty though in a class of 20-25 i'd always find 4 or 5 who were a joy to teach but the administrative trends to cater to the lowest common denominator ("the customer wants an A") are a massive turnoff so fuck noe.
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My teaching experience is limited to TA work, manning small 100 level psych classes and instructing senior stats labs (oh, and junior high and HS subbing), so I never had the pleasure of having a student ask me anything like this. But if confronted with a question like that, I'd probably be really nice and explain how assignments and tests are weighted, how attendance and participation factor in, etc. Because the "customer" really does want an A, and unless you're a tenured prof., or working at a private school, you probably want/need them to get an A even more. Their scores will essentially determine your value to the institution. Less so in college than in k-12 perhaps, but it's still going to factor in somewhere.
It basically turns teaching into a commission job in the long run. An organized, big-picture sales gig. Man, that's a depressing thought.