/sci/ - Science & Math

>>15925819
>>15925878

I'm white and the prof is white too, but the professor does all the higher-level math classes and didn't want to do the entry level math. However, the school requires all the math teachers to do some amount of entry/lower division level instruction per semester to reduce burnout. I don't know how it is in Europe but the college didn't want to hire 3+ high school math teachers just to teach 1st semester college math because it'd mean paying a teacher a professor's wage or it'd mean making a professor teach retards. He also takes all the complaints when the professors whine about how they're given the dumb math class/students who are just taking it for a non-transfer degree. The prof in question has written several books on algebra and used to work at a real university.

This is probably a USA thing, again this is only a junior college and not even a state school. My class started with 35 people, half early college teenagers who tested out of highschool at 16 the other half being working adults. Only 15 made it to the final, and since he's curving the grades I'll probably still pass with a D+ despite getting every question wrong on the final because even a 15/100 is higher than a 0.

It's a weird situation and doesn't make sense in countries that aren't America, because in the US all of us would have been pushed into a technical school instead.