<p>My son had mainly bad teachers at Penn this year. He couldn’t understand a word his foreign economics teacher said, so stopped going to class. His writing seminar teacher was so bad that 6 of the 12 original students immediately transferred out (son wishes he had done so…) </p>
<p>I had a Statistics teacher at IU who was dreaded and considered to be really hard. I could not schedule the class at any other time. He did everything in terms of bridge hands (cards)- probabilities etc. I didn’t play bridge, so this was a problem. I was really trying to get good grades for getting into law school, so I went into his office for extra help. We wound up really “clicking” and I told him that if the final was easy I would buy him a drink. I worked really hard, got an A, went out with him and married him a year later. It only lasted a few years, but we’re still friends.</p>