I’m writing in response to a letter to the editor about a cartoon depiction of an instructor who feels stuck at BC.
This is how we students sometimes feel. It is very hard sometimes to communicate to teachers that feel they know everything.
Admittedly, the cartoon is extreme, but that’s what a political cartoon is supposed to be.
I am so glad Dr. Beeman responded, because dialog is an essential step to start understanding and improve.
I never got the impression that the artist or the editor implied that most or even a lot of teachers felt like they were stuck at BC, but we students are perceptive enough to sense when teachers wish they were somewhere else, and would prefer to be somewhere else.
We aren’t dumb. We listen to instructors for hours at a time, and some are wonderful and some act like they are so bored and uninspired by us, you can’t help but notice.
So if the gentleman who came to Bakersfield because he wanted a house and is proud that he makes 40 percent more than his NYU colleague is implying that there are no pompous professors professing to be disgruntled who wouldn’t leap at the chance to work somewhere else, I think the article must’ve struck a secret nerve. Kudos.