Re: Snape as a teacher

Thom-Madura wrote:
Ron Hunter wrote:
orionca@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Sun, 05 Aug 2007 12:04:57 -0700, DrGong <Drgong1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Actually, he was somewhat mean to potter, but if potter could not
survive potions with Snape, how was he to survive Voldy at full
power?

Rather like saying "If a kitten can't survive being mauled by a German
Shepard, how does it expect to survive being thrown in a fighting pit
with a Rottweiller?" The thing is you don't expect the kitten to
survive EITHER experience; it's a kitten, after all. If it grows up
to be a mountain lion there's not much worry either way, but first it
has to grow up.

Snape wasted time insulting and belittling his (non-Slytherin)
students. Nothing he did prepared them to be Potion makers. Had he
shared the notes out of his old Potions book they might have gotten a
better appreciation of the art of Potion making. Many, like Neville,
would still never have gone on to become masters such as himself but
they would have still learned a lot more from having a teacher like
Hermione or even Slugthorn.

I took an advanced calculus class in college. After I made a "B" on
our first test he called me in and told me I was going to fail and it
would be better for everyone if I simply dropped the class. I decided
to stick it out and, yes indeed, I failed, as did everyone but one
other student in the class (a pre-law major, a friend of mine, and one
of the brightest, most likeable people I ever met in my life). The
instructor loved him and lavished all kinds of attention on him, the
rest of us he told to drop or we would fail. Then the Math Department
got defunded: seems there was a state law that based funding on the #
of graduating seniors by department and he hadn't passed anybody in
that (required) course in over 3 years. Every math major in the
university got up to their third year and then transferred or changed
majors rather than face him. The next year he was gone and I took it
over and made a "B". Absolutely Nothing He Taught In That Class
Helped Me The Slightest Bit The Second Time Around.

Snapes strikes me as a worse teacher than that ***.
--
Paleontologists recently announced they have
discovered when Man first discovered language:
Just after he invented the hammer and nail.

And it was BAD language.
How in HELL did the school's administrators allow a teacher who failed all his students to continue teaching? They should all be fired. A 100% failure rate indicates the teacher is NOT doing his job, at a minimum, and that he is grossly incompetent, and/or unfair. A new school would have been a good solution to this problem.


When I was in College - I was a biology major - and Physics was a required course - but of course it was taught by the Physics department head - who hated the head of the biology department (Believe it or not - they were brothers). At the beginning of the Physics class - we students were told that only Physics majors would be eligible for Grades A(Now 4.0) or B(Now 3.0) - regardless of how we actually performed. Complaints to the administration were returned to the teacher himself -since he WAS head of the department - and of course did not help.

However - head of department means tenured - they could not fire him.
In order to make sure that we did poorly - he often had tests on subjects not yet covered in the course - with different tests for the Physics majors and the Biology Majors.

Doing that is a ethics violation, for which a tenured professor CAN be fired. Or one could use the ultimate punishment, and just promote him to a non-teaching position....
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