I'm Just F*cked Up
Okay, I have never felt so imcompetent in my life. What's the biz? The crazy thing is that this has been going on since November, so I'm really beginning to think that I don't know how to do my job. I've been here for almost 4 years and I'm just now screwing up. I've been trying to put two and two together to figure out why, but the only thing that I can come up with was the fact that for two month's last semester I was off work. I didn't think about my students, I didn't think about what I was missing, I was away and since then I've been screwing up. Or maybe I was screwing up before then, but no one thought enough to mention it to me? Here's what's going down...
I've beenworking with a student who is absolutely nuts. He's always complaining about what's not going well. He has a very bad attitude, but I deal with him. I think he respects me or something because I keep hearing about how he tells the instructors off and blows up in their face, but he doesn't do that to me. So, he's been struggling with his math class. Well face it everyone struggles with math, but he is beligerant. He's been causing ruckus in the class and is disrupting the flow, so the instructor comes to me to inform me that he is not supposed to be in the class. He didn't have the prerequisite, however, I was unavailable so the instructor told my co-worker. My co-worker told me. So, I look up his record and I find that I registered him before the semester was over, so I had no way of knowing that he was not passing the previous math class. The grades come out over the summer, but I didn't look his grade up to see that he needed to be dropped from the math class that he was registered for. So, technically he doesn't have the skills to pass the math class that he's in. Of course who gets the blame....MOI. Well, I'm not taking the full blame because we need a system in place to kick students out of certain classes that they haven't fulfilled the prerequisite for. Am I to be that system. How was I supposed to know that he didn't finish the class satisfactorally. So, here we go again. I'm sure they are going to call me into another meeting and tear me to shreds. I'm so tired, I think I just need to retire early and do some menial job that doesn't require a lot of skills. I just don't know...
I've beenworking with a student who is absolutely nuts. He's always complaining about what's not going well. He has a very bad attitude, but I deal with him. I think he respects me or something because I keep hearing about how he tells the instructors off and blows up in their face, but he doesn't do that to me. So, he's been struggling with his math class. Well face it everyone struggles with math, but he is beligerant. He's been causing ruckus in the class and is disrupting the flow, so the instructor comes to me to inform me that he is not supposed to be in the class. He didn't have the prerequisite, however, I was unavailable so the instructor told my co-worker. My co-worker told me. So, I look up his record and I find that I registered him before the semester was over, so I had no way of knowing that he was not passing the previous math class. The grades come out over the summer, but I didn't look his grade up to see that he needed to be dropped from the math class that he was registered for. So, technically he doesn't have the skills to pass the math class that he's in. Of course who gets the blame....MOI. Well, I'm not taking the full blame because we need a system in place to kick students out of certain classes that they haven't fulfilled the prerequisite for. Am I to be that system. How was I supposed to know that he didn't finish the class satisfactorally. So, here we go again. I'm sure they are going to call me into another meeting and tear me to shreds. I'm so tired, I think I just need to retire early and do some menial job that doesn't require a lot of skills. I just don't know...
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