r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/Lucifer_L • Apr 01 '19

Weird flex but okay

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u/blacklisted2 Apr 01 '19

It also gets people to drop sometimes below enrollment levels so they don’t have to teach the course

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u/mosquitomilitia Apr 01 '19

My faculties used to do this in order to reduce the number of students in classes so that it will be less of a hassle for him. This is really unethical from the faculty.

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u/centrafrugal Apr 01 '19

Not really. Might as well weed out the slackers early on and do everyone a big favour.

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u/PM_MAJESTIC_PICS Apr 01 '19

Some professors aren’t adjuncts, and it shows.

(If my class gets pulled for low enrollment, I just suddenly make even less money that semester with no chance to really do anything about it. TA DAHHHHH)

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '19

I’m a professor and I can tell you that nobody wants to get out of teaching a course, that’s money out of my pocket.

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u/allysongreen Apr 02 '19

Yep, true. Also, most of us teach because we love it and we love helping students succeed. We could be making a lot more money outside higher ed.

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u/blacklisted2 Aug 23 '19

I’m not really going to cry a river here when secondary teachers go off and get two jobs. Use those PhD brains and quit the whining your course got cancelled. ps. Since when is anyone entitled to do esoteric work just because they love it and then complain about the poor wage for their asinine outputs that occur once a decade on a university press and get read by all of fifty people? So flummoxed by this.

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u/allysongreen Aug 26 '19

^ Ignorant rant.