Post #16

You know what? I got to thinking about this whole college concept and the input we, as students, have. Not too long ago there were some surveys that were passed around in all the classes by the instructor of that particular class. They confidentiality was so well thought out that the teachers passed them out to the students, who then filled them out and gave them to a random student to bring to the administration. There were no names on the surveys so they were kept completely anonymous in that regard as well. On these surveys were questions about the course and teacher that the student was to answer and give a rating to as to how well they thought things were going. Based on the answers the students put the school can then make a better judgment as to where the strong points of the college are and where improvements should be made. I believe this to be a very good system and a fabulous way for the students to give their input about their teachers and the job they're doing. It's a very good tool up until the teacher who you'd most like to criticize doesn't hand out the goddamn surveys. The one person who you'd like to give a few pointers on how they should teach their class is the only one who fails to hand out these oh-so-important assessments. All the other teachers did their job and gave out the important documents, so why couldn't they? Are they really that worried about what the students will say that they don't dare give them out? Or maybe they know they're not doing a very good job and that's why they didn't give them out. Either way, I'm pissed. I wanted to tear this teacher a new one and wasn't given the chance. You can bet your ass that I'll be the first one to write down this little "mishap" on any other questionnaire's that we receive later in the year. I oh so hope I get my chance to do just this at some point this year.