I don’t think this is the case for every school and professor, depending on how hard it is to get a professor for the subject they teach.
Personal anecdote ahead:
There’s one at my school that has over half the class drop every single semester, every single class because his expectations for freshman in a core class are more in line with what you should be expecting of seniors or grad students. Who knows how many that don’t drop fail, because he responds to requests for assistance or advice by essentially telling you to figure it out yourself.
But he teaches classes that tons of international students want to take, so he makes the school too much money (they still keep the money if you don’t drop before the 2 week drop deadline, way too early for most to see how fucked his classes are).
The funny thing is I took a class of his not knowing he was like that bc it was online, happened to be in my wheelhouse and I got an A after spending a stupid amount of time and effort on my papers. I needed another class and decided to take him in person because I genuinely did learn a lot from the other class, and oh boy… noped right the fuck out of there after making a genuine effort to see if I would be able to even do the project worth 1/3rd of our grade.
similar situation, we had a math teach in CC, who was teaching above the material for the class ( getting into matrices, and discrete math in adv alg class) 2/3 of the class dropped, get this nobody in the class knew he actually dropped the students himself(because they wernt passing because he was teaching material way more advanced than the class subject, and he forgot to tell them) only after i actually voiced my concern, did the other students bailed, otherwise they would took the whole class wasted thier time. he taught at night and a different UNI as well, im guessing thats why the school dint catch on. if only i knew about RATEMYPROF i wouldve avoided him, and many others to.(most people ended with a W), i have suspicion he hates teaching CC CLASSES(he would often call people terrible for not learning) and did say people do graduate HS with a low skill in math. since it was a night class it was more annoying, because it was more material jammed in one day, and people have to slog through the semester just to take night class.
another course, a higher math class i was in, most of the student dont bother showing up til test time, like 75% of the class is gone most of the time, the school noticed it somehow and sent an auditor to sit in the class, i assume its because they w ill cancel the class because people wernt showing up to the class anymore. The students did get wind of it, and everyone showed up when the auditor did, so nothing happened. it was an easy class though, and the teacher was retiring soon then anyways.
I don’t think this is the case for every school and professor, depending on how hard it is to get a professor for the subject they teach.
Personal anecdote ahead:
There’s one at my school that has over half the class drop every single semester, every single class because his expectations for freshman in a core class are more in line with what you should be expecting of seniors or grad students. Who knows how many that don’t drop fail, because he responds to requests for assistance or advice by essentially telling you to figure it out yourself.
But he teaches classes that tons of international students want to take, so he makes the school too much money (they still keep the money if you don’t drop before the 2 week drop deadline, way too early for most to see how fucked his classes are).
The funny thing is I took a class of his not knowing he was like that bc it was online, happened to be in my wheelhouse and I got an A after spending a stupid amount of time and effort on my papers. I needed another class and decided to take him in person because I genuinely did learn a lot from the other class, and oh boy… noped right the fuck out of there after making a genuine effort to see if I would be able to even do the project worth 1/3rd of our grade.
similar situation, we had a math teach in CC, who was teaching above the material for the class ( getting into matrices, and discrete math in adv alg class) 2/3 of the class dropped, get this nobody in the class knew he actually dropped the students himself(because they wernt passing because he was teaching material way more advanced than the class subject, and he forgot to tell them) only after i actually voiced my concern, did the other students bailed, otherwise they would took the whole class wasted thier time. he taught at night and a different UNI as well, im guessing thats why the school dint catch on. if only i knew about RATEMYPROF i wouldve avoided him, and many others to.(most people ended with a W), i have suspicion he hates teaching CC CLASSES(he would often call people terrible for not learning) and did say people do graduate HS with a low skill in math. since it was a night class it was more annoying, because it was more material jammed in one day, and people have to slog through the semester just to take night class.
another course, a higher math class i was in, most of the student dont bother showing up til test time, like 75% of the class is gone most of the time, the school noticed it somehow and sent an auditor to sit in the class, i assume its because they w ill cancel the class because people wernt showing up to the class anymore. The students did get wind of it, and everyone showed up when the auditor did, so nothing happened. it was an easy class though, and the teacher was retiring soon then anyways.