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Meanwhile, after the first final exam I've given, there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth.  Second final is in two days.  And it had never occurred to me that so many people who not know what a flange was.

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8 hours ago, Pariah said:

I had a professor in college who told us, and I quote, "If you turn in an assignment in a sans serif font, I will light your paper on fire."

 

I shared an office with a teacher who did all of her work from school assignments to memos in Comic Sans. 

 

She was a band teacher, not that it was an excuse. 

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Hm.  I use Tahoma a lot, but not for documents whose important parts are merely prose sentences.  When math expressions are important, I frequently use it.  But people with strong feelings about Comic Sans tend to have stronger feelings about mathematics....

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When I first taught this course, I was offended that there no attempt made to quantitatively describe convection. And an angry instructor is a vindictive instructor, who visits hitherto unimagined problems upon their innocent-for-this-situation students.

 

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Things You Can't Say as a Teacher, Part 417:

 

Parent: "Why did you fail my child?"

 

Teacher: "Your child made zero effort, showed zero respect for their teachers or classmates, and took zero accountability for their own learning. It's pretty clear they've never been told 'No' in their entire life. I didn't fail your child. You did."

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