Word: unpreparedness
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"First of all," she announces, "I started to organize my school--starting to organize the students, going into protests, just screaming, getting out all the pain. More than half the people were absolutely unprepared, because it is a very isolated country."
Wolff made a presentation to the Councilexplaining the need for the new policy. Problemswith the present system include the delay ininforming graduate students about teachingassignments, the inconvenience of professorsscrambling to find TFs after a course has begun tomeet, and the trails of undergraduates forced tosuffer through semesters with unprepared andinexperienced...
Second, there is the danger of student mediators taking on issues that they are unprepared to deal with. Alvin Bragg of the Black Students Association, while generally supportive of the program, worries that in some cases students could "get in over their heads."
So some end up hiring unprepared TFs who suffer through the semester with a section or two full of undergraduates--who themselves are suffering under their guidance.
Such a sudden change in a class only traps students who find themselves unprepared to do the work. In addition, grading a class more harshly or dumping more work on students does not translate into a more rigorous course, much less a better one.