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[Greiger]

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I made a formal complaint to the school a couple weeks ago about a teacher's unsatisfactory teaching methods.  She is continuing.  And not only is she continuing she is getting worse.  She made the same speech that made me go off on her two weeks ago, about how us not finishing the labs is our problem, not hers, but not only that, she has announced that she is increasing the weight the lab assignments have on our final grade by 4 times, despite the labs still not being caught up, and has added another requirement to the lab with instructions to resubmit any lab assignments we have already turned in for a grade with the additional attachment, all submissions without that file will be thrown out.

This additional attachment is the same thing we do as the entire lab in a sister course I also have with another teacher, we also need to spend lab time on this attachment because it requires simulation software we do not have outside of class. She does not see why this cannot be done before or after class (remember that she does not show up for class to unlock the door until 10 minutes AFTER class time, and there is another class immediately after ours.)

She also has not yet graded the first lab assignment.  Which wouldn't be a big deal, except that the instructions are full of vague formatting requirements that often cannot realistically be applied to what we are doing.  (The instructions say to copy and paste sections from the lab report.  The lab report is a hastily scanned PDF file, scanned badly enough that it is all low quality, and at an angle that cannot be directly copied and pasted.  Windows simply does not recognize it as text.) We need to get some kind of evaluation feedback to see if we are doing it correctly.  When asked she just says that she'll grade them tomorrow, and never does.

Going to see about either passing a petition around the classroom, or simply coming into her boss' office as a group instead of individuals.  I know of at least 4 other students fed up with this that would be happy to join me.  If going through official channels does nothing I suppose we need to be more direct.

[IronTomato]

The whole knife-around-neck thing is kinda cool. When I'm older Ill probably carry a handgun or combat knife for self defense. Hooray for paranoia!

[Dutchling]

I'd do the same if I ever end up in a place where it's necessary. Like India or the US :v

[Lagslayer]

Spoiler: Wall of text semi rant (click to show/hide)

I made a formal complaint to the school a couple weeks ago about a teacher's unsatisfactory teaching methods.  She is continuing.  And not only is she continuing she is getting worse.  She made the same speech that made me go off on her two weeks ago, about how us not finishing the labs is our problem, not hers, but not only that, she has announced that she is increasing the weight the lab assignments have on our final grade by 4 times, despite the labs still not being caught up, and has added another requirement to the lab with instructions to resubmit any lab assignments we have already turned in for a grade with the additional attachment, all submissions without that file will be thrown out.

This additional attachment is the same thing we do as the entire lab in a sister course I also have with another teacher, we also need to spend lab time on this attachment because it requires simulation software we do not have outside of class. She does not see why this cannot be done before or after class (remember that she does not show up for class to unlock the door until 10 minutes AFTER class time, and there is another class immediately after ours.)

She also has not yet graded the first lab assignment.  Which wouldn't be a big deal, except that the instructions are full of vague formatting requirements that often cannot realistically be applied to what we are doing.  (The instructions say to copy and paste sections from the lab report.  The lab report is a hastily scanned PDF file, scanned badly enough that it is all low quality, and at an angle that cannot be directly copied and pasted.  Windows simply does not recognize it as text.) We need to get some kind of evaluation feedback to see if we are doing it correctly.  When asked she just says that she'll grade them tomorrow, and never does.

Going to see about either passing a petition around the classroom, or simply coming into her boss' office as a group instead of individuals.  I know of at least 4 other students fed up with this that would be happy to join me.  If going through official channels does nothing I suppose we need to be more direct.

Would it be possible to get the law involved on this? At some point, this might be considered theft.

[Greiger]

Spoiler: Wall of text semi rant (click to show/hide)

I made a formal complaint to the school a couple weeks ago about a teacher's unsatisfactory teaching methods.  She is continuing.  And not only is she continuing she is getting worse.  She made the same speech that made me go off on her two weeks ago, about how us not finishing the labs is our problem, not hers, but not only that, she has announced that she is increasing the weight the lab assignments have on our final grade by 4 times, despite the labs still not being caught up, and has added another requirement to the lab with instructions to resubmit any lab assignments we have already turned in for a grade with the additional attachment, all submissions without that file will be thrown out.

This additional attachment is the same thing we do as the entire lab in a sister course I also have with another teacher, we also need to spend lab time on this attachment because it requires simulation software we do not have outside of class. She does not see why this cannot be done before or after class (remember that she does not show up for class to unlock the door until 10 minutes AFTER class time, and there is another class immediately after ours.)

She also has not yet graded the first lab assignment.  Which wouldn't be a big deal, except that the instructions are full of vague formatting requirements that often cannot realistically be applied to what we are doing.  (The instructions say to copy and paste sections from the lab report.  The lab report is a hastily scanned PDF file, scanned badly enough that it is all low quality, and at an angle that cannot be directly copied and pasted.  Windows simply does not recognize it as text.) We need to get some kind of evaluation feedback to see if we are doing it correctly.  When asked she just says that she'll grade them tomorrow, and never does.

Going to see about either passing a petition around the classroom, or simply coming into her boss' office as a group instead of individuals.  I know of at least 4 other students fed up with this that would be happy to join me.  If going through official channels does nothing I suppose we need to be more direct.

Would it be possible to get the law involved on this? At some point, this might be considered theft.

I honestly have no idea.  The weird thing is that the school is usually pretty reasonable, if I didn't know better I would think this teacher belonged to a completely different school. 

A couple days ago another teacher of mine that I have had for a few classes, said that he overheard students talking about her and asked me about it, since he knew I had her as well.  He told me that I seem to have the same opinion everyone else has.   While it doesn't get anywhere, at least it's comforting to know that the veteran staff also know there is a problem.  From the sounds of it she's not popular among the staff either.

[Facekillz058]

Spoiler: Wall of text semi rant (click to show/hide)

I made a formal complaint to the school a couple weeks ago about a teacher's unsatisfactory teaching methods.  She is continuing.  And not only is she continuing she is getting worse.  She made the same speech that made me go off on her two weeks ago, about how us not finishing the labs is our problem, not hers, but not only that, she has announced that she is increasing the weight the lab assignments have on our final grade by 4 times, despite the labs still not being caught up, and has added another requirement to the lab with instructions to resubmit any lab assignments we have already turned in for a grade with the additional attachment, all submissions without that file will be thrown out.

This additional attachment is the same thing we do as the entire lab in a sister course I also have with another teacher, we also need to spend lab time on this attachment because it requires simulation software we do not have outside of class. She does not see why this cannot be done before or after class (remember that she does not show up for class to unlock the door until 10 minutes AFTER class time, and there is another class immediately after ours.)

She also has not yet graded the first lab assignment.  Which wouldn't be a big deal, except that the instructions are full of vague formatting requirements that often cannot realistically be applied to what we are doing.  (The instructions say to copy and paste sections from the lab report.  The lab report is a hastily scanned PDF file, scanned badly enough that it is all low quality, and at an angle that cannot be directly copied and pasted.  Windows simply does not recognize it as text.) We need to get some kind of evaluation feedback to see if we are doing it correctly.  When asked she just says that she'll grade them tomorrow, and never does.

Going to see about either passing a petition around the classroom, or simply coming into her boss' office as a group instead of individuals.  I know of at least 4 other students fed up with this that would be happy to join me.  If going through official channels does nothing I suppose we need to be more direct.

Would it be possible to get the law involved on this? At some point, this might be considered theft.

I honestly have no idea.  The weird thing is that the school is usually pretty reasonable, if I didn't know better I would think this teacher belonged to a completely different school. 

A couple days ago another teacher of mine that I have had for a few classes, said that he overheard students talking about her and asked me about it, since he knew I had her as well.  He told me that I seem to have the same opinion everyone else has.   While it doesn't get anywhere, at least it's comforting to know that the veteran staff also know there is a problem.  From the sounds of it she's not popular among the staff either.

I hope it works out for you in the end, I know there is nothing in the world that annoys me more than people like that.

[Squanto]

Scumbag YouTube.
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[Lagslayer]

Scumbag YouTube.
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They gotta make up for all those ad blockers.

[Flying Dice]

Scumbag YouTube.
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They gotta make up for all those ad blockers.

With content blockers. They detect if you have any sort of adblock utility installed, and if you do, nothing on youtube will play. Three strikes will cause your subscriptions list to be deleted. That's the next update to YT, honest.

[Descan]

I'll switch to blip if that happens, I swear to Christ.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I'll just use the workaround when it comes out a few days later.

[Ultimuh]

Scumbag YouTube.
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They gotta make up for all those ad blockers.

With content blockers. They detect if you have any sort of adblock utility installed, and if you do, nothing on youtube will play. Three strikes will cause your subscriptions list to be deleted. That's the next update to YT, honest.

Wait.. what? WHAT?? YOOOOUTUUUUBE!!! D:<

[Facekillz058]

I've been waiting for two days to be whitelisted on this StarMade server.
Like, dude, come on, checking the thread once a day shouldn't kill you.
(On the StarMade forums)

[Frumple]

Do not raeg at forum members, either by name or by indirect attacks. Do not post links to other Bay12 drama here. Do not post links to other forums with the intent of stirring up people to post there. None of that is the purpose of this thread. Raeg at "things" all you want, but not the people behind them.

Not. Involving. The. Forum.

... unless that was directed towards some other one, in which case maybe clarify

[Facekillz058]

If you're talking to me, it's a different forum.
Ours doesn't have a whitelist,