- User type
- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 1y
Entitled Student Wants Me To Quit
I’m a new adjunct professor at a US university. It hasn’t been a week already and one student already complained to the head of my department that my teaching style is terrible. I thus received a long email from the head saying that I better improve my teaching style or else I’m out… So what on earth happened? I was just merely following a department syllabus to teach. I didn’t change anything to it, but apparently, the student thinks the order of topics is wrong and that she speaks on behalf of all students in saying that I’m confusing them all. She’s also disrespected me on multiple occasions, speaking over me while I’m talking, hovering over her phone, and whispering to other students. So here I am, thinking that I do suck and that I need to quit before I’m fired or my contract isn’t renewed. I’m just an adjunct and I don’t have the rights that full time faculty have. It’s sad because I do genuinely enjoy teaching and I just want everyone to have fun with it. But, this student doesn’t even give me the opportunity to teach. She then tells other people in the class to just skip my lecture and go to tutoring. How could I deal with the OCD induced from this? OCD wants me to just quit already and go home. That I’m a worthless person and I shouldn’t be teaching.