Comments on: A Pleasing Contrast http://rightwingnation.com/2008/04/30/a-pleasing-contrast/ Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:11:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 By: ricki http://rightwingnation.com/2008/04/30/a-pleasing-contrast/#comment-118621 ricki Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:52:16 +0000 http://rightwingnation.com/2008/04/30/a-pleasing-contrast/#comment-118621 Wow. I thought I was immature and easily-wounded, and then I read about Venkatesan. At least I don't SHOW it when I'm offended by the fact that dude-in-the-back is texting instead of taking part in the discussion. And canceling classes because the students hurt your feelings - grow an epidermis, lady! Bad evaluations sting, but sometimes that sting is there for a reason - something needs to be improved. (Of course, I do question the validity of bad individual evaluations when 3/4 of the comments I get praise how much I taught them, or how I challenged them to do more, and then I get one or two griping about how the class was IMPOSSIBLY hard and far too much was expected of them and that I set my standards too high.) Wow. I thought I was immature and easily-wounded, and then I read about Venkatesan. At least I don’t SHOW it when I’m offended by the fact that dude-in-the-back is texting instead of taking part in the discussion. And canceling classes because the students hurt your feelings - grow an epidermis, lady!

Bad evaluations sting, but sometimes that sting is there for a reason - something needs to be improved.

(Of course, I do question the validity of bad individual evaluations when 3/4 of the comments I get praise how much I taught them, or how I challenged them to do more, and then I get one or two griping about how the class was IMPOSSIBLY hard and far too much was expected of them and that I set my standards too high.)

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