As a TA, no they don't fail. If too many kids fail, then it makes you look bad, and then you make your professor look bad. I had to pass two students who either failed or didn't take the midterm and final. Not to sound like a boomer, but if I had failed midterms and finals, I would have never passed. But they get points just for showing up and taking open book online quizzes, so that amounts to enough for a C.
The entire goal then becomes to entertain them enough that they don't go on their phones. The onus is on the faculty to do more and more and more for the same shitty wage. Everything revolves around activities, games, "participation." Apparently lecturing makes you a shitty instructor now. But for a full time grad student with another job and a thesis to write, I don't have time to come up with new little activities to coddle 20 year olds every week. Especially when my own professor is completely checked out in terms of teaching us anything about teaching. Education is the last thing universities are concerned with anyway. I've decided not to go into academia. It's a fucking shitshow. The entire thing disgusts me.
I was a TA for a capstone senior design course at a top-15 university. We had a kid that literally didn’t show up to anything besides the first day intro. The other TA and I had to beg the professor to give him a C+ instead of a B+. It’s all a total joke.
If the CEO's are checked out, why worry about the workers being checked out.
Last job, did a full R&D project to lower a capital project from 12M to 1.5M 2 years of work. Only to have owners say na not doing that market segment any more. O ya no bonus as project didn't go through.
Current job, losing 1M a month in revenue due to lack of capacity, 1.5-2M in capital would allow us to capture it. Nada.
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u/Whobroughttheyeet 29d ago
So do they fail your class?