As much as university officials want to believe they are hiring
educators who care about the education and future of students,
let’s be honest, some of these teachers just do not care.
As much as university officials want to believe they are hiring educators who care about the education and future of students, let’s be honest, some of these teachers just do not care.
For many educators, teaching is a last resort. Either that, or something to do to receive a paycheck after retiring. Do they really care to educate students to become successful?
Before I go any further let me say that I realize not all educators are nonchalant about whether their students actually grasp concepts or not. But at the end of the day, these other particular uncaring individuals that call themselves “educators” are out there, and they are easy to spot.
Granted, it is not just college professors, it is evident in high and middle school teachers too. I just do not understand how a teacher can consistently allow and be satisfied with students passing their class by just doing minimum work and not learning anything.
Some professors do not even have office hours; they have office minutes! It seems as though some of them are not willing to help students who have taken the time to come to a teacher’s office and want to understand the material. How do teachers expect us to care to learn if they act like they don’t care about us?
I’ve actually had a high school teacher and college professor assign a crossword puzzle for homework just to give us grades. What purpose does that serve?
They might as well have given us a coloring book and had us color every night.
The interesting part is that people seriously wonder why students are graduating from high school at a third grade reading level and forced to take remedial classes in college. Well, this is why.
Out-of-state tuition is beyond excessive. Around $20,000 per year to attend A&T, which is interesting in itself with all the budget cuts and layoffs, yet tuition is constantly rising, but I digress.
My parents are certainly not paying the university a ridiculous amount of money for me to receive a degree that is really not worth anything because I did not learn what I needed to learn to make it in the world. In this case, I am hardly getting what I’m paying for.
Because we already attend an HBCU, we are already looked down upon. We make it worse by filling classrooms with teachers that do not care whether or not we fail or pass.
And teachers certainly are not doing anybody any favors by passing them when they deserve to fail; by doing that they are ultimately setting students up for failure. A&T’s graduation rate is not as high as it should be. You cannot seriously think that it is entirely the students’ fault.
Although I’m speaking negatively about educators, some of them have really been great. Some students admire the teachers who give them a lot of work and make them work hard to earn their grade. Even though we complain about the large amount of work some teachers give us, at least we can see they care about us learning the material and being prepared for the world.
But as I mentioned before, a lot of teachers chose their profession as a last result. And honestly, I’m a little tired of hearing teachers complain about their job. If it is really that miserable, then quit. The biggest reason I didn’t want to be a teacher was because all I heard my teachers do was complain about teaching.
Students want and pay to receive a higher education, and rest assured, we don’t care to hear about our teachers’ problems and how they hate teaching and how the school doesn’t pay them enough; we have our own issues to deal with.
In President Obama’s State of the Union address, he emphasized the importance of education. “Teachers matter,” he said. “In return, grant schools flexibility: to teach with creativity and passion…and to replace the ones that just aren’t helping kids learn.”
We admire the teachers who at least attempt to relate to us creatively. As far as I’m concerned, if some teachers aren’t going to help us learn, we need to get rid of them and they need to go play chess or something.
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- Karmen Robinson, Sports Editor