Date:
Friday, September 12, 2008
Time: 12:05:00 PM
The week has been a little draggy. The race to finish the essay and journal occupied the first two days of the week. But what comes after that was even more irritating and frustrating!
It happened on Wednesday during the class that my essay was due. Well, in black and white, it is written that my essay was due on that day. But, somehow, that arse tutor thought,
"the class is getting dull, so why don't I create some jokes to spice their life?"But honestly, his joke wasn't anywhere funny or amusing. Instead it got almost all of us in the class frustrated. His jokes goes something like this....
" Where are all your essays? You are supposed to submit it last week."This was where the ferocious me, erupted! What does he meant when our essays was due on Topic 3 presentation day? If it was really true, wasn't it his onus to remind us again on Week 2? But the point here is, there wasn't any consensus that we are all in for the idea of submitting the essays on that week! It was just him and his idea. That was because he wanted to avoid marking so many essays on the last week.
But, here is my point. Whatever arrangements you want to make with your students, have it black and white. Most importantly, have our agreement. But here, you are trying to go against your course co-ordinator arrangements for your own benefit without consulting us, the people who have to complete our essays and at the same time, bogged down with our other assignments?!
Also, it is ur
F**!@#YY#G onus to mark the number of essays and assignments that come your way. So what if you've got 4 classes to handle? If you can't, then don't agree on taking 4 classes! Why do we have to be put at a disadvantage position?! Mind you, you're being paid to do this!
And, what does he meant when he said that draggy 2 hours presentation was the best he had seen so far even before they presented?! In the first place, we didn't even had a proper chance to meet him up. And when we got to meet him, it was less than 20 minutes, our ideas being rejected like as if we were some primary 1 kids trying to embark on our very own grand project!
It really hurts us.. having put in so much effort and time to do our research, without getting much help from him but marking us down like we are rubbish! Apparently, my group wasn't the only one who went through this agony. But another group that I knew went through this agony as well.
And after what happened.... I asked myself, am I in the right track? Have I picked the right career choice? I mean, here we are trying to upgrade ourselves, trying to be impartial in our judgements and assessing our students' work but there they are a majority of tutors who doesn't even know the meaning of 'impartial'!
Why bother making us go through these agony of assignments and project work and whatnots when the tutors or lecturers can't even give a proper assessments?!
Those who work hard are always not duly rewarded.. but at the end of the day, I tell myself this..
" Those who gets the grades will not be the ones who make the best teachers. And those who can get good grades are those who might not be the ones who can teach!"Enough said and I am sure when the time comes... I will definitely leave this service if this case of favourtism and backstabbing goes on any longer!
