Marik wrote:
Killing my math teacher!!! He can't explain anything (he makes tons of mistakes), he's sarcastic as hell, NOBODY LIKES HIM!!! UGH!!! I'D BE DOING THE STUDENTS A FAVOR!!!
Marik, can you ask him a relevant question that he won't be able to answer adequately, without your appearing to be setting him up? And then take him down for the count with some difficult but pertinent follow-ups? Tag-teaming can be effective too, especially if carefully choreographed.
I remember hearing how a (systems analysis?) class at, maybe MIT, programmed their prof to to move around the room according to their own agreed-upon "choreography" by rewarding him with rapt attention, pertinent questions, respect, etc., and "punishing" him with inattention, coughing, shuffling the feet, dumb questions, dropping things...
I wish I could provide some backup for this, but it was quite a while ago. Has anybody heard of this cruel experiment?. There's a story, again I can't provide proof for it, but I think this all came out of MIT:
There was this tenured prof who had clearly gone past the age of lucidity. One day he walks up to the door to his office, but it has been camouflaged with paneling and whatnot, and there's a portrait of him, with a caption detailing how he had retired, like, two years ago.He looks at it for a long time, and walks on down the hall...
I don't particularly believe in torturing profs, but hey, if they can't figure it out, maybe it's time to move to Florida, whatever.
Worked for me. Hey, I got a time-share there!