First day of classes went well. Except for this:
I was going over the syllabus and explaining how to login to the course website, and when I told them the password for the course was "Haiti," at least 40 of the 140 students raised a hand simultaneously.
Their question? "How do you spell Haiti?"
Unbelievable.
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So I thought of this post the other day. I open with Pictionary for an ice breaker. One card says "Atlantic Ocean." Student frantically pulls me aside and says "I'm like not good with geography and stuff, where is that?" I said "our side." (thinking she confused it with the Pacific...) "But WHERE? Is it like by a river or something? I don't get it."
OMG. She's a college senior.
Wow. That does takes the cake; must have been difficult to keep a semi-straight face.
It's a moment when you just are speechless. Who is to blame?
My first thought when I was able to think again was "what else is lacking and how will that impact the class?" I found when they turned in their in-class writing that half the class (and again, it's all juniors/seniors) can't write sentences.
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