coldhearted scientist وداد

I am still in shock over the antics of the woman I have been tutoring every morning so she could perhaps pass my course, and who, as I only discovered last week, was having the problems she was having because she had never taken the prerequisites. She was covering this fact up in hopes of progressing to degree more quickly. She had tried, and ultimately failed, to pull the same stint on another faculty member last term. She needs to graduate as soon as possible because she needs to work. Her chosen career is to teach the subject in question at the secondary level.

I need to counterbalance the memory of the fraudulent waste of my time and energy, and of the utter incomprehension of the educational process in a putative future educator, with a much earlier story that took place on a foray of mine into a freshman course, where someone erred far more honestly and in the opposite direction.

Z: You are clearly too advanced for this class, I think you should move up.
Student: But I have never had a class in this subject before.
Z: You are quite good at it anyway. Do you know you can take a credit exam, move up, and graduate more quickly?
Student: Really? Well, I did study over the summer. Nobody in my family has been to college and I thought it would be hard, so I got the textbooks early and I read them.

Student: I have taken the credit exam, and I earned fourteen hours of credit. I really like the course I placed into. I was wondering . . . well, I am also taking freshman math and English. Do those departments also give credit exams?
Z: Yes, they do. If you also studied math and English over the summer, you should definitely look into taking those exams.

Airport Shuttle Driver: I know who you are! I am not charging you! You are that professor who saved me over two thousand dollars!
Z: I saved you over two thousand dollars?
Airport Shuttle Driver: Yes! You told my son about those credit exams, and he became a sophomore within a week of starting college! That is a year’s tuition saved, you know!

Axé.