AmusedByIdiocy
Sense and Sensibility
Has anyone ever been in the position to work closely with another teacher and you realise that the indiscipline and underperformance in their students you’d before witnessed from afar is actually due to the teacher’s ineptitude?
I teach English and I’m working with another Instructor this semester and I’m realising that he (mediocre white male) has such a poor and superficial understanding of the literature that he is quite unable to push these pupils into the analysis I demand of my own learners. Like he barely understands the depth in the stories himself.
I always wondered why his students did so poorly. I thought it was just racism making him require so little of them. But that’s not the entire picture at all. He’s just dumb.
I mean, I know mediocre white males get away with murder, but seeing his lack of intellect up close and personal is still startling...and amusing confirmation.
I teach English and I’m working with another Instructor this semester and I’m realising that he (mediocre white male) has such a poor and superficial understanding of the literature that he is quite unable to push these pupils into the analysis I demand of my own learners. Like he barely understands the depth in the stories himself.
I always wondered why his students did so poorly. I thought it was just racism making him require so little of them. But that’s not the entire picture at all. He’s just dumb.
I mean, I know mediocre white males get away with murder, but seeing his lack of intellect up close and personal is still startling...and amusing confirmation.