We all know that in educational settings, children and young adults alike tend to focus on the wrong things. Whether it’s friends, their phones, or any distraction they can get their hands on, including video games, it’s just easier to not study or pay too much attention in class. Typically, teachers and professors tend to overlook it and pick their battles, but in a video posted to Reddit earlier today, it seem sone professor can’t quite handle the disappointment she was feeling.
It’s one thing to not pay too much attention during a lecture that you probably have the textbook to find all the information that you missed, but after a while of being blatantly ignored when teaching, this TA pulled some crap to try to see how much her students really cared. In the video, a caption reads, “Our TA purposely emailed us all the exam answers and none of us opened the email before we took it.” Honestly, I don’t blame her. If I was teaching that class, I’d be just as frustrated.
Rightly so, she stands up in front of the class and explains that her students were going to be “so pissed off” when they realized what she’d emailed out to the class. She proceeds to pull her screen up on the projector and show everyone where the answers were laid out, word for word. During this all, the students look pretty ashamed of themselves, considering the class got an average grade of “71%” on the exam.
It seems the talk doesn’t have too much effect on some of the students though, and Redditors hopped right into the comments to point it out. One user commented, “I mean there’s someone literally playing a video game on the left side of the screen. They were spoon fed the answers but they have to actually look in front of them to see it and they can’t even do that.” Another followed it up with “This doesn’t surprise me. When I was taking networking classes, our instructors would tell us “this WILL be on the exam”. They gave us about 75% of the questions AND answers. People still failed…“
It seems no matter what you do, you just won’t be able to get certain student to give a crap about their education.
