Hunter Astro Professor (ASTRO 100 with Christopher Paskoff) Needs To Change
Hunter Astro Professor (ASTRO 100 with Christopher Paskoff) Needs To Change
The Issue
I was going into this class thinking it would be a fun time since I would be learning about stars and planets…but what I got instead was a nightmare…I went from a 4.8 professor to a 1.8 professor in just 1 day. The professor constantly repeats himself with the same point, he keeps going in circles with his topics, will skip over slides and have minimum information on them, won’t let us copy all the notes within the slides on time, will go and complain that all the stuff we need to know is in the textbook, goes and skips over certain chapters yet puts them on the test, made us pay $80 dollars for just 6 homework's online, doesn’t give review sheets or give us topics to review for the exams, will go and say that everything is fair game but when we ask about the topics we should study for he literally tells us “whatever he emphasizes” which he doesn’t put on the exams anyways, and crams in a lot of information the class before we need to take our exam. And after taking our exam when we were asking questions he would stutter and go around the questions without answering them directly. Students who go every class and pay so much attention told him that they studied really hard and from the words out of his mouth no less, and he told them in front of everyone that they need to study harder and that they weren’t grasping the concepts hard enough. He kept blaming us for our low grades instead of taking accountability for not teaching properly.
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The Issue
I was going into this class thinking it would be a fun time since I would be learning about stars and planets…but what I got instead was a nightmare…I went from a 4.8 professor to a 1.8 professor in just 1 day. The professor constantly repeats himself with the same point, he keeps going in circles with his topics, will skip over slides and have minimum information on them, won’t let us copy all the notes within the slides on time, will go and complain that all the stuff we need to know is in the textbook, goes and skips over certain chapters yet puts them on the test, made us pay $80 dollars for just 6 homework's online, doesn’t give review sheets or give us topics to review for the exams, will go and say that everything is fair game but when we ask about the topics we should study for he literally tells us “whatever he emphasizes” which he doesn’t put on the exams anyways, and crams in a lot of information the class before we need to take our exam. And after taking our exam when we were asking questions he would stutter and go around the questions without answering them directly. Students who go every class and pay so much attention told him that they studied really hard and from the words out of his mouth no less, and he told them in front of everyone that they need to study harder and that they weren’t grasping the concepts hard enough. He kept blaming us for our low grades instead of taking accountability for not teaching properly.
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Petition created on March 23, 2023