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Frankly, the article irritated the hell
out of me. It was titled "It's all about me" (meaning the students) but it
seemed to be more about the "needs" of the profs. In my experience, the few
somewhat over-reaching emails from students are extremely far between. And even
those can help me to understand the needs of the students I'm working with. The
article reminded me of those kinds of lists that sometimes come up which
illustrate how "uninformed" today's students are because someone has managed to
pull out examples of gross misinformation from the thousands and thousands of
papers that are written each year (many of which illustrate really good strong
thinking).
I think the profs cited in the article
need to examine why they're in this profession.
Jack Estes
BMCC/CUNY
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Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 7:31
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Subject: TEACHSOC: NY Times
That front page article today had me
howling! One student of mine told me she was missing the first 6 classes
of the semester (in a weekly course!) because she was traveling (not for
business, school, family emergency -- pleasure), and I said perhaps to take a
semester off. Well, all her other profs were accommodating her needs, so
I was left to decide to give her just about 1/2 my entire course a month early
(it was my first time teaching so, you guessed it, I did). Another
student this semester asked me to make copies for him of a page in the book,
because his used copy was missing a page. The list goes on and
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