Teachers Afriad to Fail Students
In the Globe and Mail this morning, the non-online edition, there is a story titled ‘Iraqi profs face death for failing students’ and it begins with:"In most countries, it is the students who dread tests. In Baghdad, it is the teachers. As exams are administered on campuses across the city, many of them are wondering whether these tests will be their last."
It continues to explain that professors have been threatened and in one case killed by students over test grades. Many students are condoning these death treats because they feel that with the increased difficulties in studying, since the US lead invasion, their professors should be making classes easier.
Protection for the professors is impossible with the shortage of law enforcement elsewhere. So the professors will need to make a choice to take the risk and continue teaching or quit; there is a third option as well give into the threats and tailor the programs to the students. If they quit or change their teaching styles then the only people at a real disadvantage are the students. Their situation is impossible to imagine for most attending Canadian Universities, we have power when we need it and there are no roadblocks to hold us up. However, these students need realize that by threatening their professors the only people they hurt in the long run is themselves. They need to find a better way, with the professors, to create a balance between what is required and what work can realistically be completed under the condition in Iraq as they are.
Cheers to the Globe for reporting stories on all aspects of the U.S. led invasion of Iraq.
posted by Angela @ 11:14 a.m.
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