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echo: educator
to: MORT STERNHEIM
from: DAN TRIPLETT
date: 1996-06-25 20:41:00
subject: Re: Class Size Over-Rated

MS>In a message of , Matt Smith (1:3644/6) writes:
MS> MS>    College teaching comes with unique discipline problems that ES
MS> MS>teachers do not face.  Have you ever had half your 9:00 A.M. class 
ome
MS> MS>in drunk? (It's common in colleges.)     Excessive partying is a major
Matt seems to know a lot but has nothing to say.  I have read many
of hiw posts and I do believe he makes things up as he goes.  MS>I don't
know where you went to school, but I have been teaching at the
MS>college level for over 30 years, and I have never seen a drunk
student in MS>class.  Ever.
MS> MS>    While college kids will generally stay seated once they get to
MS> MS>class, many just cut class.  If many students get low grades due to
MS> MS>cutting class, the administration blames the prof...not the student.
Nor in the two I attended...undergraduate and graduate school....
MS>not in my university.
If you have been following Matt's reasoning (An Oximoron) you will find
that it is consistently flawed.  At any rate, I have asked Matt to share
his expertise and he has so far declined.  I hope he reads this and
offers us some solid research based data to support his far-fetched
claims.  Otherwise he should go sit in a corner...
Dan
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