<p>After his sister went off to college, my ds decided that homeschooling as an “only” wasn’t as much fun, so he enrolled in a few community college courses. There he experienced both his best and his worst professors during his first semester. </p>
<p>The calc. instructor was wonderful. She was very tough on ds and he rose to the challenge. The next semester he arranged his schedule to take another class from her. It was a more advanced course than he needed for his accounting major, but he’d enjoyed the prior class so much he just wanted to take it. OTOH, ds dropped a computer science class after the first day because the 30-something instructor made it exceedingly clear that she was more than willing to give an A to the few young men in her class. At first, I didn’t quite believe my ds had really understood her correctly. It turns out that he didn’t think he had either, so he actually asked her after class just what extracurricular activities she had in mind, and she was pretty explicit in her reply. Keep in mind this was a 16 yr. old, devout RC, homeschooled kid (who did look older, but not that much older.) His reaction to her was, “Eeewwwwww!” (mostly because she was “old.”)</p>