Expecting Too Much?

Our American Heritage professor sent all of his 2,000+ students this article about how more and more college students today are expecting more and more from their professors, and thence from their grades. My sister Megan was telling me about this a couple weeks ago; she attended a lecture for her MFHD classes, and she told me the speaker talked about how professors are getting calls from parents complaining about their children's grades. Really, now?

I've always loved to learn, and my parents have always pointed this out and encouraged me. I like to think about how much I am learning here at BYU; I've accepted I won't always get the grades I got in high school, but I am so excited about the new things I am learning and can teach to my future history students. My classes continually overlap, and especially American Heritage is giving me tons of ideas on how to teach students who may not want to be there. That was one of my biggest fears about being a history teacher; at least in our school district, a history class of some sort was required every year, so I knew I would be teaching not honors kids, most likely, for at least my first few years. That was scary to accept; I'd never really been in a non-honors class since they didn't divide them in 6th grade. But combined with these movie clips, current events references, and my Government class in 12th grade when I couldn't schedule in AP Gov, I think teaching will be wonderful.