Standing at the Trailhead of Winter

As I waited for the bus home yesterday, I listened to two students discussing the negatives of a couple of their instructors, one a French teacher and the other an English teacher. I found it amusing the students were upset with two language teachers, and I wondered if they had anything negative to say about their math teachers or science teachers. The gist of the conversation was both the French teacher and the English teacher have no idea how to teach. When I hear students tearing away at an instructor, my first thought is  and what, exactly, is your expertise in the area ? You, at 18 years old with say, what, maybe 100 hours of writing experience to your name ? And that 100 hours is probably a generous amount given how most students, probably even the two students loudly proclaiming how awful their French and English teachers are, claim they write papers in the hour before they are due. If what the students claim is actually true, this means if a student has written fiv...