Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for February 24, 2020

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    BE THIS GUY  over 4 years ago

    My parents paid good money to get me in here — I deserve good grades!

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    pschearer Premium Member over 4 years ago

    Just yesterday my GF was speaking admiringly of a math professor she had in college who refused to give partial credit, explaining that when your bridge falls down, nobody will care that it was just an arithmetic error.

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    Display  over 4 years ago

    Don’t forget the days of textbooks printed in Texas with errors, omissions, and propaganda being used in many states just because they were the cheapest ones to buy. When checking homework I used to see where the book was printed. Would have been funny if it wasn’t real.

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    vaughnrl2003 Premium Member over 4 years ago

    I’m sort of thinking this sort of thing is how Rome fell. The rise of the mediocrity for the sake of riches.

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    billrobinsonmusic  over 4 years ago

    I’ve seen this up close and personal teaching physics in a university. I flunked a student, whose parents went right to the Provost; result, I was scolded by the head of our department. I heard that a professor at Duke resigned after a lawsuit from a student who got a low grade.

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    Troglodyte  over 4 years ago

    I guess it’s “die”, then. Poor guy has a self-prophesying name too…

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    comixbomix  over 4 years ago

    die

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    prrdh  over 4 years ago

    I have the impression that we boomers were the ones who planted the seed of the poisonous idea that university students are ‘customers’, even though as Frazz has pointed out, they are the product.

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    dadlivonia  over 4 years ago

    No, adapt or starve to death

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    tddrmchl  over 4 years ago

    I have been here. I am a math teacher. I have been fired for this.

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    Call me Ishmael  over 4 years ago

    I have often looked from my porthole at the hydraulic tubing in an airplane wing, and “prayed” that those engineers were REALLY good ! (Also, that MY pilots were the luckiest pilots alive..)

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    bakana  over 4 years ago

    I note the subtle “Some of us did” dig at the Dean.

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