Just some YouTube fun for you…
Excellent! This is hilarious. I am not a teacher but this reminds me of students I have known…
Clearly this teacher should be punished by taking away his right to arbitration. 
A college student did not attend any classes, did not complete any assignments, and did not write any tests or exams. After the end of the term, he turned up at my office and asked for a passing grade. I said no, so he came over the desk swinging at me.
He was in the law and security program – just the sort of person who you would not want to be a police officer.
:eek: I got a bit of nervous adrenaline coursing through me just reading that.
Did you end up calling the campus security?
Nah, just held him down until he calmed down (I was a very fit male rugby player back then – still male but not as fit), then later had a word with the department chair who had him banned from campus.
There’s something about law and security /police fundamentals programs that attracts just the sort of person whom you would not want to ever be a security guard, let alone carry a badge.
Unfortunately, I have seen too many students who were, with some exaggeration, just like that. Even more unfortunately, this kind of behavior has gotten much worse since students started doing evaluations and, even worse, schools started using these evaluations for tenure and promotions. I could readily see that the way to get a good evaluation was to give an easy midterm (we did them during the last week, so before the final). I ignored them in any case, but I was a tenured full professor before this whole charade got going.
Since I am in the middle of dealing with a grade-grubbing student (and school ENDED Tuesday, I’m off contract, TYVM), I love this.
There are a number of xtranormal videos available on Youtube that have been created by members of the Chronicle of Higher Education fora. This one cracks me up every time.
Same here. When I was untenured, though, this shit would have really rattled me, especially with my colleagues taking student evals as seriously as they do. You want to improve your grade? Do your fucking work. End of story.
I thought the characters looked familiar, the same people made some Geico ads
Bears
Sexy Grandpa
I look back now, a decade later, and realize I was one of those students for some of my classes. Going back to my teachers at the 11th hour and asking what I can do to improve my grade even though I skipped half the classes, didn’t turn in the homework, failed the tests etc and was dumfounded when they told me there was nothing I could do at this point.
I wish I could have taken a step back and realized how easy it was to get the help I needed. It was right there. The teachers were (more or less) available. Ten years later, does it really matter if I missed an episode of the Simpsons or had to skip smoking a few cigarettes in between classes to get to their office hours to avoid failing a class?
Luckily I only had to fail one class for that to happen and it was my own stupid fault. Learned from my mistakes, stopped skipping classes, started meeting with professors after class. Did my homework. Asked for help here. Worked out much better that way.
Speaking of teacher reviews. I wonder how well it might work to have students review teachers a few years later. When they’re not teens anymore, not right in the middle of everything, not still worked up up the class they just took. Sure, they’d get a lot fewer reviews, but the ones they got would probably be more meaningful. OTOH, I guess they would be out of date since if a prof had actually made real changes in the way they taught it would take years to show up in the reviews, especially if they only taught one or two hundred level classes.
I think it is great that you had a learning experience and changed your behavior as a result. If only everyone would do so.
About evals…they are a sore subject for most of us, especially for part-timers who teach the majority of classes these days but whose jobs and rehire rights (if they have any) may depend in part on those evals.
Oh, I remember that one. The one I linked to in the OP was posted on College Misery, which used to be called RateYourStudents.