Pretty sure I have a bonafide Professor Umbridge as one of my teachers.
For one of our assignments in my class, we were to read Lincoln's second inaugural address and then imitate his style in our own paper. He used a bunch of passive voice to reduce blame on the South or the North and to help heal the difference between the two. We were supposed to do the same thing but in a hypothetical situation. I wrote about the Cold War and what would happen if it hadn't ended. I wrote a speech that could potentially have been given at some conference and how it called for the people to put away their difference and fix the problem that had plagued them for decades. Like I said...completely hypothetical.
My friend Gabriel wrote about the second coming and what Christ would say about the descenting 1/3. He wrote the speech as if Christ said he would forgive everyone because of his love for mankind and that we all are brothers and sisters. Gabe did not believe Christ would forgive the descenting third, he just wrote about "healing the wounds" like our teacher wanted us to. When we got our papers back, our teacher gave him a C because she couldn't look past his doctrinal errors. She told him that he used the passive voice correctly, but she couldn't give him a fair grade because he was incorrect. Ghaaa...she is so annoying. He just had a conference with her today and she changed her mind about why he got a C and said he had "unclear sentences" and not doctrinal errors. Seriously? She was just covering her butt so that he didn't have a fight he could put up against her. She also told him he had to re-write another one of his papers for who knows what reason. I peer reviewed that paper and it was exactly what she wanted. I got mine back and I got an A on it and I can tell you that Gabe's was as good or better than mine. She just hates him and is vendictive. There was nothing wrong with either of his papers, but for some reason she has a chip on her shoulder and is taking it out on him.
Evil...nazi...lady!
Why do the worst teachers get tenure? A slap on the wrist won't teach them how to be good teachers. They need a real punishment for treating students unfairly.
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Well, princess, the ugly truth of the matter is that you always have to write what the teacher wants to read. While free-thinking is permitted, you have to keep it to yourself except in your blog and your conversations. On paper, when you're trolling for good grades, then write what you have to in order to survive. If you don't mind less than stellar grades, then by all means give your true and honest opinion. It's maddening and unfair, but it is the system, particularly with the cerebral professor crowd. Power hungry mongrals. Oh, and at BYU, if you decide to include doctrine on a paper, you'd better get it right because while the Lord may forgive you, BYU won't.
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