tillian 🦊  ACAB

ngl the fact that teachers "failing" students' exams on purpose over personal grievances is such a widespread thing tells me all i need about the state of academia

worst part this stuff was prevalent in ussr too. i just found out about a personal story about that from one of my relatives

Mar 20 at 8:19pmWeb
Show threadnerd teacher 🦇Mar 20
@mynameistillian Hard agree. I've also got my own story about a practicum supervisor who failed me for lodging a complaint about his behaviour towards students and me when I was doing my teaching degree. Which also means I have a story about a university who allowed it despite the complaint that was lodged.
Show threadAlice Mar 20
@mynameistillian one of the mandatory things on russian school graduation exam is writing an essay about a given text

the text will most likely be obvious propaganda garbage. Not always (i got lucky and got sth about ecology), but usually yes

now, technically you are allowed to disagree with the text

but ofc in practice everybody knows that if you do that, they will fail you
Show threadAlice Mar 20
@mynameistillian i wanted to say it's likely worse now than when i was doing it, but... probably not worse - at the time crimea invasion had just happened so it's comparable
Show threadKaitlyn~EthyliaMar 20
@mynameistillian I'm assuming this is an american thing but wtf? As far as I'm aware over here our teachers do the initial marking and then its confirmed by a higher authority to make sure it's fair
Show threadbyte::Arc<Eepy>  :rabiesPride:  Mar 20
@mynameistillian very true, i had to switch professors to pass an exam twice over personal beef. admittedly i’m an annoying bitch but also it’s a skill issue on their part if they can’t admit they’re objectively wrong about something and rather fail a student over it