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10/27/2005: "Damn stupid bitch"
Song of the Day: Foreigner - Juke Box Hero
A few entries ago, I complained about my Legal Writing professor who is a complete (pardon my language) dipshit. Today, she just confirmed that even more.
One of the requirements that she kept harping was that we use gender neutral language in the partnership agreements we were writing. When I looked over the corrections she handed back today, I noticed that she'd circled where I had written, "Each partner shall record his or her own hours into the accounting books." I asked her what was wrong with it, and the conversation went like this:
Her: "That's very wordy, pick either 'him' or 'her'."
Me: "You said you wanted us to use gender neutral language."
Her: "Yes, so just pick one of them."
Me: "Picking one of them would not make it gender neutral."
Her: *blank stare* "Uh, just use 'their' then."
Me: *returning her blank stare* "That would be grammatically incorrect."
Her: *getting frustrated* "Get rid of it all together then, just say 'Each partner shall record hours."
Me: "But whenever I wrote anything else like that in here, you crossed it out and said it was too ambiguous. Each partner shall record whose hours? I want it to be explicit that each partner is responsible only for his or her OWN hours."
Her: "Okay, okay, you can use 'his or her', but I only want it used sparingly. Some people used it several times in one sentence."
Me: "Well, I didn't. This is the only place on this entire page that I used it, and you STILL circled it and had a problem with it."
At this point, she basically just walked away from me. I honestly don't think she has any idea what gender neutral language is.
In another example of her stupidity, her grading was atrocious as usual. Quick background: I had a partner on this assignment. We were asked to split the sections of the contract in half and were only graded on the sections that we told the professor we were writing. I noticed on the grade sheet that I had gotten a 13 out of 15 on a section that I didn't write, yet my partner got a 12 out of 15 for that same section. We called the professor over and asked how I could have gotten a higher grade if I wasn't the one who wrote that section.
Her: "Well, some people added in sections that weren't required, so for those parts, I just gave you the points for the sections that you didn't write."
(Nevermind she never told us this was how she was going to do it - she ignored all of the emails that we sent her asking about how the grading would work)
Me: "But all you wrote down here are numbers, how am I supposed to know which extra sections of mine are included here, as opposed to up here in this other section I didn't write?"
Her: "Well, on some of them, I wrote it on here, but for others I didn't have time to do that."
Me: "Can you look at my paper and my grading sheet and figure out what you're actually giving me 13 out of 15 for?"
Her: "Uh...no, that would be very difficult, I don't have time for that."
Me: "So, for the rewrite, how am I supposed to figure out what to improve to get those two points back?"
Her: "Well, since you're handing in only one document with your partner, grading is going to be different for the rewrite."
Me: "How is it going to be graded?"
Her: "I haven't really figured that out yet."
Sigh.
Replies: 3 Comments
The semester is half over. You'll be done with her before you know it. Take a deep breath, relax your muscles and back hand her to the side of the head and you'll be just fine. :)DPearl, Thursday, October 27th
Relax my muscles? Given your current state right now, it's really, really hilarious you said that. :DBrooke, Thursday, October 27th
LMAO @ "Relax your muscles" hehehehheh.Snickering Camgirl, Thursday, October 27th