tutors/lectuers who do my head in.

After 3 years at uni, I don't know if it's just social work tutors/lecturers, but I am SO sick of the odd tutor/lecturer who thinks we don't have a life outside of uni. The ones who expect you'll go to every single class no matter what (sometimes completely impossible) and really play the guilt trip when you can't make it, or don't even want to hear an excuse, they have already assumed you're just slack.

They are always the ones who don't like granting extensions, why have extensions if you don't want to grant any, EVER?

They always try to exert their power energetically to make you feel like you're never doing good enough, and yes THIS MAY work for some people (not actually sure who) it actually offers the complete opposite effect for me. It does not empower me, it does not make me want to go to class more, it does not make me feel positive, it makes me want to not go, to drop out and to never return because you make me feel so uncomfortable EVERY single class (and I am never the only one!)

Your words are contradictory and when the whole class feels the same way, you're not doing it right. You're there to teach, not be our mothers and boss us around or make us feel like we're not doing good enough, I'm pretty sure every single student is already self talking themselves with that nonsense!

The hardest part is I can see through the act and I can't say anything because if I did you'd just rationalise it to yourself and I'd be the one full of shit. I've seen your type too many times!

I have one of these this year, she was really rude to a girl whose Nan had died and she wanted an extension saying it's not a 'good enough excuse'. WOW just wow. How can someone teach about empathy? How can someone say not to exert power and work with narrative therapy? How can someone talk about engaging and LISTENING skills when they treat people like this?

She is the only tutor I haven't told I'm pregnant, because I feel so uncomfortable. Considering I've felt comfortable telling the other tutors plus students, I doubt it's just me feeling anxious.

You remind me of that psycho lecturer who rang my mobile one day just to tell me it was 'against university policy to walk out of a lecture' because I found her lecture to be completely useless and she was being nasty to students who asked questions. I realised I was being bullied and told another tutor, who told me no-one liked her - even the teaching staff and she'd be losing her 'internal' position next semester. HOW do these kinds of people get into educating ANYONE?

In a perfect world, these lecturers and tutors would understand the world does NOT revolve around just THEIR class and we have 1. Other things to do in our life, 2. Other subjects to study and write assignments for/attend and 3. We are not ALL making up excuses for extensions or days we can't attend, most of the time it's legit.