Problems With A Professor

[TrueLiberal]

Hello Elite. I recently returned to college after a long layoff. I'm having moral issues with a professor teaching a required course. He is a foreigner from southern India. He constantly bashes Americans and Christianity. He considers Americans ignorant and lazy among other negative things and makes no qualms about making his opinion known.

Regarding Christianity, I am very familiar with it's history and the depth of it's variations. Some of my historical specialties include Byzantium and Orthodox Christianity. Today I tried to correct him regarding his observation that all priests and monks are fat and materially excessive. I personally know several priests and monks. Immediately he shut me down.

If I stood on a public pulpit and bashed Indians the way he bashes Americans, I would be arrested for a hate crime. I guess this is what they call diversity at my school. Oddly he never stops to think "ignorant and lazy" American worker money finance his cushy, tenured position at an America public University. Proud Americans, think, if this guy wasn't occupying his cushy pulpit at an American school, another educated American could be employed there. The professor would possibly be digging ditches in his third world shit hole.

I would like some advice on how best to voice my concerns to the school administration. Also I would like to withdraw from the class and be reimbursed for my textbooks and wasted time.

 

[WoodyO]

So, fucking drop the course already.

 

[WoodyO]

You fat, lazy American.

 

[Mike4705]

Good for you for handling it as well as you are. If this personally happened to me I wouldn't react so rationally, I consider myself very patriotic, I would have made it my personal agenda to embarrass him ( respectfully if I did not lose my temper ) I live in northern Virginia and because of the huge diversity in race I have similar problems at my school. I've had a lot of success telling the teacher to his face in a firm yet respectful manner that his stereotypical views are offending. Although I've never encountered a problem as big as yours. How do your other classmates feel?

 

[SpyWizard]

You are paying the college to learn a subject and he is not teaching it, that's theft by swindle..

unless his opinions are on the final exam, then you are screwed..

I once asked during class if the fact that the professor was gay was going to be on the final exam?? if not, stop talking about his sexual preferences and teach what i am paying for him to teach me..

but i can take a class, read the book and not attend a single class to pass it so it's on you if you do that..

 

[mstiles87]

I got h same shit in college if it's a public liberal arts school good luck man I ha to bite my tongue or four years. If he's tenured just I back relax nd honk about how much more mony ou will make over him when you graduate.

 

[SpyWizard]

I mean if i'm having the plumbing in my house worked on I don't want to hear how many ass holes he likes to lick, or the fact that he worships dogs on the weekends..

i just don't need that to have him do what i'm paying him to do..

 

[nimbus]

toasting in a roll bread

 

[C0LUMB0]

He's cheating on you.

 

[Strongbow]

I would suggest murdering the professor and his Dot head family with an AK-47.

 

[Headholio]

Challenge him when you disagree. Institutions of higher learning are supposed to encourage questioning and civil discourse. Soon others will have the balls to do the same. Then your professor will probably tone down the BS because he will know that he will have to defend what he says.

Complaining to the administration will help also. While you are taking notes, keep a separate page for all inappropriate comments he makes, with the date and time. Compile a list and send it to the department head. Facts work much better than general complaining.

Even tenured professors can be censured or fired for just cause. Expressing opinions is a hard concept to to deny for a tenured professor, but if the opinions are not related to the course subject and are designed to provoke, then something might be done about it.

 

[wootoom]

drop the fucking attitude

 

[billfred]

Challenge him when you disagree. Institutions of higher learning are supposed to encourage questioning and civil discourse. Soon others will have the balls to do the same. Then your professor will probably tone down the BS because he will know that he will have to defend what he says.

Complaining to the administration will help also. While you are taking notes, keep a separate page for all inappropriate comments he makes, with the date and time. Compile a list and send it to the department head. Facts work much better than general complaining.

Even tenured professors can be censured or fired for just cause. Expressing opinions is a hard concept to to deny for a tenured professor, but if the opinions are not related to the course subject and are designed to provoke, then something might be done about it.

^^ This

Professor is obviously trying to push buttons to engage class. You are there to learn, stick around, debate and see if you learn something from it.

 

[wootoom]

stfu

 

[pdaddyII]

It's 3 months out of your life, get the fuck over it, lift up your skirt and wipe your vagina.

 

[smurf2]

It's 3 months out of your life, get the fuck over it, lift up your skirt and wipe your vagina.

That's what I was thinking.

People complain too damn much

 

[-SD-]

Is your goal to change professors ways or get a degree?
If the latter then stfu and get the required course credit

 

[wootoom]

Is your goal to change professors ways or get a degree?
If the latter then stfu and get the required course credit

How many credits do you think he needs?

 

[-SD-]

How many credits do you think he needs?

500 for pure dirt

 

[PICK3]

He considers Americans ignorant and lazy

I think of myself as lazy and apathetic


just sayin'

 

[PICK3]

He is a foreigner from southern India.

Sit on the front row of his next lecture rawking this

 

[digimon7068]

give him a horowitz...make sure your crack is nice and sweaty the next time you're in class...after class, stand up, slide your hand down the back of your pants and with your forefinger, take a nice long swipe, from bottom to top, for the entire length of your sweaty ass crack...walk up and strike up some poignant conversation with your prof then, while he's espousing on some anti-american theory, lean in and say "hey, you have some fuzz or something on your upper lip" then reach up and wipe it away with your crack finger...talk for a couple more minutes, then split.

 

[*ebony*]

Why don't you go to his office hours and talk to him about it and see how it goes?

 

[C0LUMB0]

 

[javaguru]

Hello Elite. I recently returned to college after a long layoff. I'm having moral issues with a professor teaching a required course. He is a foreigner from southern India. He constantly bashes Americans and Christianity. He considers Americans ignorant and lazy among other negative things and makes no qualms about making his opinion known.

Regarding Christianity, I am very familiar with it's history and the depth of it's variations. Some of my historical specialties include Byzantium and Orthodox Christianity. Today I tried to correct him regarding his observation that all priests and monks are fat and materially excessive. I personally know several priests and monks. Immediately he shut me down.

If I stood on a public pulpit and bashed Indians the way he bashes Americans, I would be arrested for a hate crime. I guess this is what they call diversity at my school. Oddly he never stops to think "ignorant and lazy" American worker money finance his cushy, tenured position at an America public University. Proud Americans, think, if this guy wasn't occupying his cushy pulpit at an American school, another educated American could be employed there. The professor would possibly be digging ditches in his third world shit hole.

I would like some advice on how best to voice my concerns to the school administration. Also I would like to withdraw from the class and be reimbursed for my textbooks and wasted time.

I didn't read your post but tell him what he wants to hear and get an A; Welcome to academic life...I didn't get a real education until I took graduate level courses where reading controversial material and intellectual disagreements were encouraged. Low level classes as an undergrad are just like high school classes, memorize and regurgitate.

 

[UA_Iron]

I had a Professor try very hard to expel me.

It was a very controversial class indeed, Instrumentation Error Analysis: how error propagates through systems and calculations and statistical approaches to methods.

I went into his office and yelled at him for an hour, we had issues. I just sucked it up, sat alone in the class (no one would sit next to me anyway) and was engaged in the material. After the class he pulled me aside and said I should become a PhD in his broken English. It actually made me feel good lol.

The cool thing is that I looked up his salary online many years ago (they're posted for my Alma matter), I was making more than him at that point - two years out of college

 

[ceo]

I just sucked it up, sat alone in the class (no one would sit next to me anyway)

do you stink?

 

[UA_Iron]

do you stink?

They wouldnt sit next to me cause of the issues I had with the teacher. Dick.