Ep. 188 – Leftist Professors Concerned Online Lectures Will Expose Biases

There is a lot of truth to what you have said in terms of their reliance upon the GA to take the class while they do whatever they do and whatever they do, is not in the classroom.
With no guidance from the professor you have an amateur, practicing to be a professional amateur. Waaay back in the early 70's I suffered through a class with a foreign instructor no one could understand, who also had terrible penmanship so deciphering what he wrote on the board was a near lost cause. Regrettably, he was the only one who taught that subject, it was in the winter term of my senior year and I had no choice but to take his class.
Needless to say, I managed to get through it but not with the grades I otherwise carried.
I'm sure there are countless students who can recite a similar experience.

My tow Bachelors of Business and the other one in Science came from a small university so I did not ever see anyone who was a TA, but when I worked on my Masters one in Exceptional education and one in school leadership at a regular big university I ran into this from time to time. Just found it silly that this prof was making $120,000 per year and only showed up 1/2 to 2/3 of his classes. What a joke.

LTC Wayne Brandon I can certainly relate to your situation and, on top of that, you had to pay for the course. What an educational travesty!

Your comment reminds me of two professors who tag-teamed the psych 400 Honors course I took. They decided the course should focus on the visual aspect of 'things' and instructed the students to make something, it could be anything, and bring it to class.
There were a lot of artists in this class and I was really perplexed about what to make and time was running out. The day before the project was due I was going through some military items I had in a box and there I found a round of ammo for an M-16 I had somehow acquired. Instantly, I knew what I was going to make. Scrounging around the apartment I located the barrel of an ink pen a little larger in diameter than the 16 round, located 2 tongue suppressors and a small nail. Driving the nail through the center of the tongue suppressors, making a cross of them created the base. Dropping the round down into the barrel of the pen leaving about 1/8" of the projectile above the barrel created the sleeve. Filling a small box with dirt placed on top of the base and sliding the pen barrel over the nail I packed the rest of the dirt around the barrel and adjusted the primer of the round so it met the tip of the nail. Once everything was aligned, I removed the round for safety's sake and the next day proudly presented to the class what in reality took about ten minutes to construct once the materials were gathered while many of them had spent two weeks on theirs. I placed it in the middle of the desk, removed the round from my pocket and placed it into the barrel to the sound of "What is that?" "Why is there a bullet in there?" "What in the world is he doing?!" The professor said, "That's very interesting, Wayne, what is it?" I proudly exclaimed: "It's a hasty anti-personnel mine. It is placed in the soil along a likely avenue of enemy approach and as they pass through the area, 3 to 5 pounds of foot pressure on the tip of this round will cause the nail to strike the primer and BANG! You've just ruined Charlies' day!" (The girls jumped when I went BANG! - I was grinning from ear to ear) I was then informed that wasn't a very good project.
I replied: You would think it was if you were in combat - In fact, you would quickly learn to love it!" I was shunned by all of the snowflakes (Doves - in those days) throughout the remainder of the semester and the instructors didn't much care for me either.

LTC Wayne Brandon - Well, we all love your project, Wayne! I give it a score of %100 with 25 extra points for ingenuity!

Col Carl Whicker - HAH! Thanks, Brother! If only you had been my professor instead.