midnight in the garden of good and evil
So Dr. David Weale has been dismissed at UPEI; a school which will be known for a while as the place that hands out marks. It's hard to say if i agree with the dismissal or not. The Facts from my point of view:
A) The class was way too big, full of students who heard his class was a bird course.
B) The oversized class was in an undersized room, had it been in a bigger room, say a lecture theatre, it would not have been so bad.
C) I was actually interested in the class, but was made uncomfortable by the "sardine factor".
D) I took the deal.
E) Dr. Weale could have come up with a more creative solution, say a 75% for a self reflection paper which was only a couple of pages in length, at least that would have had some sort of weight for handing out marks.
F) It was his last class at UPEI; he said so himself.
Thumbs up: the students who wanted to organize a protest, but i didn't see anything on the news about one.
Thumbs down: the students who write for the CADRE. Although in many regards humourous, check some facts once in a while! Oh, and take English 101.
2 Comments:
Dear Nick,
This article -- entitled "Toward Education as Fast Food" -- was published at the University of Western Ontario. It refers to the David Weale episode. Well worth reading!
11:06 a.m.
Here's the URL:
http://communications.uwo.ca/western_news/opinion.html?listing_id=20671
11:08 a.m.
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