<p>Thanks for your suggestions and I think I will encourage my daughter and her friends to contact the department head with their concerns as they were the ones involved, but as the one paying I will probably follow up with a letter myself (I’ll check with DD first to make sure she is ok with that.) </p>
<p>As far as just dealing with a bad teacher and having my D teach the material to herself by studying the textbook, $4000 is a lot to pay for a textbook. I paid that money for her to be taught, not teach herself. Maybe this professor really does teach well and my DD and her friends just don’t get the material, but my gut instinct tells me that is not the case and there are some issues with this professor that need to be addressed by administration. And the way I see it, administration can’t address the issue if they don’t know about it (though, rumor has it, they do know and are at least concerned).</p>