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One of my university tutors.
She was super smart, but young, inexperienced, and extremely immature for her age (like a 13-year-old).
During online Zoom tutorials, she usually commented that she couldn't wait for it to be over so she could have a glass of wine - or I'd see her actually drinking one.
She was a highly political animal. Crafty. Sly. Manipulative. She had schmoozed so effectively with the head of department that over several years she had pushed out all the other staff - only she and the head left.
Several students left the course because of her paranoid misinterpretations of their comments. I saw and heard her critique them for sexism, racism and other forms of political incorrectness when I knew them personally and knew they were profoundly open-minded, non-prejudiced people. These five students never finished the course because of her attacks.
On the plus side, she could give good feedback on an assignment or creative work: fast, thorough, and technically brilliant on academic method and structural, copy and proof editing.
But she approached the rest of her teaching and tutorial relationships with incredible arrogance.
Later, I heard one student stood up to her. Then the others chimed in.
And she was finally sacked.
She was super smart, but young, inexperienced, and extremely immature for her age (like a 13-year-old).
During online Zoom tutorials, she usually commented that she couldn't wait for it to be over so she could have a glass of wine - or I'd see her actually drinking one.
She was a highly political animal. Crafty. Sly. Manipulative. She had schmoozed so effectively with the head of department that over several years she had pushed out all the other staff - only she and the head left.
Several students left the course because of her paranoid misinterpretations of their comments. I saw and heard her critique them for sexism, racism and other forms of political incorrectness when I knew them personally and knew they were profoundly open-minded, non-prejudiced people. These five students never finished the course because of her attacks.
On the plus side, she could give good feedback on an assignment or creative work: fast, thorough, and technically brilliant on academic method and structural, copy and proof editing.
But she approached the rest of her teaching and tutorial relationships with incredible arrogance.
Later, I heard one student stood up to her. Then the others chimed in.
And she was finally sacked.