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This article is from the King Hall Law
School FAQ, by David F. Prenatt, Jr. NetEsq@dcn.davis.ca.us
with numerous contributions by others.
4.1.2.12) Should I complain if I am unhappy with my instructor? (King Hall Law School)
It depends upon why you are unhappy with your instructor. If you
think that your instructor is a bad teacher, that's a personal problem
that you need to address. I have never encountered a bad teacher that
someone else didn't like. On one occasion, the verdict on a visiting
adjunct professor was virtually unanimous in that no one felt that the
instructor was competent, and that professor was not invited back to
King Hall again.
If you are really unhappy with an instructor, you can usually
drop the class and take it when another professor is teaching it. If
you need the class, however, that is a trade-off that you may need to
make. In any event, the grade distribution remains pretty standard.
The administration at King Hall is very concerned about the
quality of instruction. Thus, you are given the opportunity to fill
out anonymous instructor evaluations at the end of every semester. I
have never turned in a bad evaluation for an instructor, but many
other people whom I know have, and in many instances they have come to
regret it when they realize that they actually did learn a great deal
from that professor. Keep in mind that sometimes the subject matter
of a particular course defies the capacity of an instructor to
spoonfeed his or her students.
Most of the people whom I know who complain about the quality of
a professor's teaching think that they know more about the subject
than the professor or think that they know more about how the subject
should be taught than the professor does. I have felt this way myself
at times. On very rare occasions I have come to the conclusion that
attending some law school classes was a complete waste of time and
that I learned certain subjects in spite of my instructors rather than
from them. However, I still attended all of my law school classes
religiously, in case an instructor passed out a "silver bullet" that
would help me on the final exam.
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