Dear Editor,
Lately I've become increasingly frustrated at BYU professors who disregard a student's many responsibilities to give them what they think is a 'sufficient work load.' It makes it worse when I hear about students who transfer to UVSC from BYU and find this increasingly prestigious school cuts homework by a matter of hours.
It's frustrating watching expressions brighten a professor's face when they show their students one more piece of evidence of their difficult teaching strategy. One professor admits every class period to his students, 'I am so evil.' A talk given by Elder Boyd K. Packer to religious educators years ago expressed his distaste to teachers here at BYU who purposely try to flunk students.
We cannot compare ourselves to Harvard or Yale because most people at those schools don't have FHE, church callings, religion homework or a religion that requires the sacrifice of all our time and talents.
A certain close friend of mine, whose wife transferred to UVSC, vented his frustration at a certain religion teacher who gave him a B+ when his final grade was a 93 percent. After visiting his office multiple times and wearying the man like the woman and the unjust steward, the professor explained the class average for religion is required to be a B or a B+ - even with a 93 percent. My friend said to me, with no small amount of frustration, 'What's my motivation for busting my rear-end for a 93 percent, only to get a B?'
Professors, please leave it up to the Lord to decide what kind of burdens we can handle to make us stronger, rather than deciding yourself what our load should be from your own perspective, only because you think we can handle it.
Tyler Baum
Ashton, Idaho