Mirror News,

Hello. As a student, I am concerned about the teaching staff. Walking thru the halls of the Liberal Arts Building yesterday while on my hour break, I overheard a teacher basically shouting at his class. Why is the first day of the semester a big scare session for many teachers? They flat out tell the class that they "don't care" of they are absent. Yes, I understand why students need not inform teachers, but then again, I'm not developmentally delayed... I don't need to be scolded to understand anything.

All too often, professors are mean about the difficulty of their course. They justify their lack of kindness by citing their college experiences and how their teachers were even more brutal.

What a sham! (A shame too...) Instead of forging a new path in the educational system, teachers just become part of the problem. It's a problem because humans learn better in lighthearted experiences... not dictatorial, stern and rigid classrooms of assiduous note-taking.

It seems that each teacher has a side to them that would scare children and they don't hide it from HFCC students. Don't believe me? Ask the teaching staff about their absence policies. In Math class yesterday, another teacher came in and asked my professor what her attendance policy is, and after she said that she allows a few, he apathetically said that he didn't allow any.

These "teachers" are so cold and ignoble that they make learning lame. They know little of the leniency because their thumbs are pushed down on "the way things are" so forcefully that creativity is being choked.

Should we all be surprised that when given authority, professors get a bit egocentric? I mean: The security gards in the bookstore treat we paying students like probably thieves if we wenter the bookstore with a book bag or folder. Whoever is training the staff has no concept of "nice."

If HFCC is going to be a decent school to learn at, the staff needs to get down off it's high horse atop a rickety pedestal and realize that we students don't deserve their snide attitudes and archaic dispositions as to what education is really about.

Although, there are many a level-headed teacher. Students are not fodder and the staff needs to remember that it is us that pay you. Don't scare us away from classes because ya'll don't know how to create a curriculum where most get A's. Keep your personal discontent at home. Forget and forgive all your professors that were bivalently rude and dismssive and set a precedent that a "teacher" ought to.

I hope this doesn't sound too cynical... I leanred it from a HFCC professor.

Peace,
Jim H., HFCC student