Bad teaching

The other thing that's really strange about teachers is how many of them bitch about their students. Can you imagine hearing a doctor say:
"These patients are getting sicker and sicker every year! What is wrong with them?"
Of course not. And college students aren't really getting stupider. But, if you teach something year after year, what happens? You learn it, until it becomes like second nature to you. Then, when you see a newcomer struggling to get it, you forget how hard it was for you at first. So, the kids aren't getting stupider- the teachers are getting more alienated from teaching.

Which brings me to my number one pet peeve- I hate, hate, HATE academic blogs that bitch about students. There is nothing less professional. You, the public, have no right to know what happens in my classroom. And so, you won't.