[rant]Contact Hour Billing

[--Pete]

Hi,

Schools have been screwing students pretty much since education ceased to be a one on one activity (about 15,000 BCE by my estimates).

While the cost and the unfair increases are worth bitching about, how about courses taught by someone for whom English isn't even an nth language (had a prof in a class I dropped, took me three lectures to figure out that one particular word was "velocity" -- and that was one of the few I words of his I ever figured out)? How about paying to have a "expert" teaching the class only to realize that the TA giving the lectures just finished the course last semester (and probably doesn't understand the subject as well as you do)? How about labs that are so regimented, all you get out of them is practice reading (at the "See Spot" level)?

Frankly, secondary education is a major rip off. And it's getting worse all the time.

Unfortunately, I have no real idea for a solution. And, no, ignorance is not preferable. :)

--Pete

EDIT: closed parenthesis -- I need a LISP keyboard :)