Duplicate post I have no choice He is an idiot (although well-intentioned) and he has been there for two years.....NO ONE has EVER gotten an A from him. Not because he is a hard professor, but because he regularly gives us false information (about 3 times a day) and says that he is "mistaken" He'll see 2 people in the class in the hall and tell them about homework that is due next class but not anyone else ( I always ask...I have never missed an assignment) He cannot complete his own homework assignments ( I regularly go to him for help on his homework assignments....it usually ends, after 10 minutes, in " I'm not sure....hmmmm, that's interesting") When you add the sheer volume of work he assigns, its not right. I work constantly for him, giving him 110% and I have a C. I have had straight A's for the last 3 semester. Everyone knows about, including the other instructors, but no one tells him (I've tried to politely) or tells the administration I have him for two classes next semester. My question is this: Do you think its worth it to go to his superiors when I know he may hold it against me?
I once ran into a similar situation. I had a teacher give me a false mark and he refused to let me see the test scores. I did take it up with a superior and the issue was resolved. At the end of the semester I still had a c average simply because the teacher was a moron and I didn't give a shit about his class. Not to mention that I didn't have much respect for that entire learning institution, so it didn't mean anything to me. It was nice to stand up to him and had him walk away with his head down knowing that he did something wrong. However, there was no action taken towards the teacher. In my opininon, simply mention something to his superior and be sure to let him know what kind of student you are. I would tell them that you are worried about your marks and that you put limitless amounts of effort in his class and still come up short. You should either key your teacher's car, threaten his family, or use blackmail.
Get a few other students to join you, and complain to the department. Maybe even get a signiture sheet. If he's so unfair, everybody should sign it.
First, why are you signed up for courses with him? Are they absolute requirements? If so, I would look into independent study -- at my university, you can take a course as a "readings" credit, where you do the reading on your own, then go in & spend an hour or so discussing it and anything important from lecture material with a professor. Could you get around the courses by doing this with some other prof? As for dealing with this one, definitely go talk to his superiors. First, I would go to the chair of the department. If possible, get other students to go with you. In dealing with the chair, start out by listing your qualifications -- straight As, not the type to go complain about every prof you just don't like, etc. The more people who will put themselves out there to back you up (I know, I've had to complain about a prof before, it can be scary & a lot of the people who bitched about the same shit in class failed to do a damn thing about it) the stronger your case will be. If the chair of the department won't do anything (and be sure to write down time/date & summary of how the meeting went right afterward as documentation), go to the deans office. Oooh... On the topic of documentation, you could bring a small tape recorder -- if you don't have one you can get one for like $20. Tape a couple of classes in a row to show him not assigning homework, then expecting people to turn it in the next class period -- then it doesn't matter how he lies to get around it, he's busted. As far as the risk of him holding it against you -- you're right, he may... But, then, the department chair will know that he has reason to be upset with you specifically, and he will know that you're not the type to just take his shit, so if he has half a brain he won't be stupid enuf to do anything that could be argued as discrimination against you. For example, if he grades your test harder than others, you can show that to the chair, he should get reprimanded. So, yeah, he may be a dumbass & make your life hell, but he may go the other way & go out of his way to seem like he's being as fair as possible to you.
because our department is so small, he is the only professor that teaches those courses and I need them for my major. I am going to start taking my tape recorder to class and to his office when i go for help. I just need to decide if I'm going address the lies he told to the dean.
are the homework assignments in the syllabus? I had a prof who NEVER talked about the assignments-we were to read the syllabus and do it.
