Education

TOLD YOU SO

June 09, 2006 1 min read
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Sometimes it feels really good to be right. Hobo Teacher had one of those moments when he ran into a former student who had been part of a class that often complained about the rigor of his assignments, telling him “This isn’t college.” His standard response was, “You’re right.”

They were right, because college would chew them up and spit them out. That in college you don't get 10 absences for each class, each semester, let alone 21 tardies. You lose points is what you get. You don't get make-up time in college. You get zeros. You don't have me, a teacher that stays hours after school to help you with your work, but a professor with set office hours—and it's not for free tutoring.

But the former student, now actually in college, said Hobo Teacher’s class had prepared her well:

After this former pupil confirmed that I was indeed right, she thanked me...she realized that all that "really hard stuff" that I had them doing in my class was somewhat geared towards the college environment; and that even though it wasn't nearly as tough as the real thing, she is coping much better than the other first year students.

And we congratulate Hobo Teacher for resisting the urge to gloat. Mostly.

(Hobo Teacher)

A version of this news article first appeared in the Blogboard blog.

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