Liberal, Libertario, Libertino

Outro dia, me apareceu uma colega quase às lágrimas. O que foi?, perguntei. Meus alunos me odeiaaaaammm!, mugiu ela.

Aqui nos EUA, já existem sites que permitem aos alunos avaliar seus professores. Teoricamente, o site ajuda na escolha das suas próximas aulas. Na prática, claro, nada melhor do que falar mal de quem te reprovou.

Cagando de medo, acessei o site. Veja o que disseram de alguns dos professores. Algumas vezes os elogios são piores que as críticas:

Her speaking style is rambling and disjointed, with parentheses within parentheses. Her politics are strident. She is also an anti-smoking zealot. She was very unsympathetic about medical problems. She admitted that she frequently loses term papers. She did not lose mine, but her comments on it showed me that she didn't read it carefully.

DO NOT take this class unless you REALLY like XXXXXXXXXX. It is not that easy, the lectures are really boring and he talks at you more than to you. He is somewhat willing to work with you if you have reasons that you can not turn somthing in, however he is not willing to help you understand anything. The class moves VERY fast.

i took his special topics class.. XXXXXXX.. the coursework was interesting, but lectures were dry and verbatim from the textbook, which he wrote. one kid dared ask a question during lecture and he merely turned and continued lecturing. i'm not sure if he even read my term paper. class is the standard midterm, 10 page paper, final

BEST TEACHER, so easy and gives you an A on papers as long as you write them! very nice, half the time you watch movies, there were many fun classes where we listened to music, took a [estilo de dança] class, took a [outro estilo de dança] class... i felt like i was in elementary school again

Depois disso, foi quase com alívio que li o meu - que não é nenhuma brastemp, aliás:

Alex is a good guy. Going to class was interesting just to hear his opinions and experiences about Brasil. The class starts out easy learning verbs, nouns, etc. but after the midterm the class picks up fast. Getting a good grade in the class is possible, but be prepared to do alot of studying and learning multiple verb tenses and how to use them.

Tests are open-book. It's sad that no matter how much he tries to help, we still do poorly. I don't see it as his fault. He's a funny man. I like the class but don't see how people w/o Spanish backgrounds keep up; we go fast. The listening parts on tests spell doom--so hard to hear the speakers! If I could hear them, I could write what they say!