Political correctness gone awry
10-02-2002, 08:44 PM
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Originally Posted by ThirdGenRX7' date='Oct 2 2002, 05:35 PM
it seems silly to me that i pay several thousands of dollars for an education, but once I get into class they say read x hundred pages out of this book and I'll go over the homework... Look if I wanted to read this ****** book i'd save my money and just buy the book and read it on my own damn time! so how about you teach me something!!!! college is stupid
10-02-2002, 08:45 PM
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Originally Posted by ThirdGenRX7' date='Oct 2 2002, 08:35 PM
it seems silly to me that i pay several thousands of dollars for an education, but once I get into class they say read x hundred pages out of this book and I'll go over the homework... Look if I wanted to read this ****** book i'd save my money and just buy the book and read it on my own damn time! so how about you teach me something!!!! college is stupid
10-02-2002, 09:09 PM
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Today a student in one of the classes I teach at a college here said that he complained about our textbook to both the dean and the publisher. He did this because of a problem that used an equation for determining the life expectancy of white males and females. They actually took it seriously too!
10-02-2002, 10:23 PM
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Originally Posted by SoniX' date='Oct 2 2002, 06:57 PM
I vaguelly remember something about ace being a teacher, I don't remember htough, what do you teach exactly? (perhaps spelling? I nedd that tonite)
10-02-2002, 10:25 PM
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Originally Posted by 13BAce' date='Oct 2 2002, 11:09 AM
Today a student in one of the classes I teach at a college here said that he complained about our textbook to both the dean and the publisher. He did this because of a problem that used an equation for determining the life expectancy of white males and females. They actually took it seriously too!
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