At the start of my teaching career, when I was fresh out of graduate school, I briefly considered trying to pass myself off as a cool professor. Luckily, I soon came to my senses and embraced my true identity as a young fogey.
After one too many students called me by my first name and sent me email that resembled a drunken late-night Facebook post, I took a very fogeyish step. I began attaching a page on etiquette to every syllabus: basic rules for how to address teachers and write polite, grammatically correct emails.
Over the past decade or two, college students have become far more casual in their interactions with faculty members. My colleagues around the country grumble about students' sloppy emails and blithe informality.
[...] Sociologists who surveyed undergraduate syllabuses from 2004 and 2010 found that in 2004, 14 percent addressed issues related to classroom etiquette; six years later, that number had more than doubled, to 33 percent. This phenomenon crosses socio-economic lines. My colleagues at Stanford gripe as much as the ones who teach at state schools, and students from more privileged backgrounds are often the worst offenders.
-- submitted from IRC
Source: The New York Times
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 16 2017, @05:22PM (2 children)
They just can't get over being the "fuck you, I've got mine" generation long enough to do their damned job.
If millennials ever develop a voice, I hope it's "thanks for fucking us over, fuck you & fuck off and die already while we clean this fucking mess up." For starters, social security needs to go. Stop letting the "great generation" live for free. They didn't divert their hard-earned income into investment instruments and retirement accounts? Fuck them. Where they get their next meal isn't my damned business and shouldn't be any other millennial's business either.
I love the smell of irony in the morning!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 16 2017, @06:24PM
Thats not irony, its just deserts.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 17 2017, @03:40PM
That's not irony. That's logic. C'mon man, where do you think they learned it from?