Professors that take forever to grade your papers.

futurenyustudent
Sun, 18 Apr 2010 11:47:48 +0000

I don’t take classes taught by tenured profs. They’re, as a group, less competent teachers, more arrogant, and make it clear they’re wasting their time.

When students miss deadlines, their grade gets penalized. When a prof misses deadlines (i.e. not grading papers within a reasonable timeframe), they should be penalized too. It’s a two way street. I don’t care how many hours of consulting you do on the side, how many bestsellers you’ve written, or how many second or third jobs you have, if you can’t grade it within a reasonable timeframe, then don’t assign it. It’s that simple. This is the professor’s duty of care to their students: grade papers on time, put in a modicum of effort into their lectures, and assist students in learning the material.

It’s perfectly reasonable to expect papers graded on time and expect profs to care about their lectures if you stop being a shill for universities. Fact is, tenured profs are incompetent teachers and belong at think tanks. Oh right, I forgot, think tanks fire for gross incompetence/negligence too. Taking more than two weeks to grade papers THEY assigned with 2 TA’s at their disposal IS gross negligence. Either that or gross incompetence. Either way, it should be a firing offense.