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APUS AMU TR WE How do describe and define how difficult of a school APUS/AMU way. My first hell experience was in an about
an hour-long chat with the head of the history department where I
doubt I could have insulted him more if I tried, entirely not on purpose. I
was actually excited to chat with someone who at least in theory
knew as much about history as I do. I was wrong, he did not know as much about
history as I do. Which by default offended him. We chatted about the history of the Pacific North West for a
bit less than an hour; a class he has taught at WSU for the last 20 plus
years. His knowledge is of the Columbia River from Vancouver to Spokane, he
knows little to nothing from Seattle North to the Al-Can. Deeply offended and
upset, the head of the dept informed me “enter my dept if you want to”. What
he meant was “good luck passing my classes”. My first teacher was a nightmare, attended that class for
about 8 days. In daily discussions the teacher began to demand I cite
virtually every point I brought up, including PD things like the Roman
Empire. The last two discussions which occurred were “cite your work or leave
my class”. Also, he wrote a very nasty diatribe which was intended
to humiliate me to the rest of the class, regarding he did not agree with
what I wrote in his class. I dropped the class before the first paper was
due. My second class, the teacher and I had a few email exchanges
the day before the class started and the day of class. The teacher began to
yell at me in email form about proper formatting, and proper respect in the
second email. Apparently, none of my questions as to how to interact in that
class were appropriate, the teacher had no problem screaming at me in email
form that I was being disrespectful asking questions. That teacher is a
“learn by failing” type of teacher. guess what I want, and if you guess
correctly you pass, if you guess wrong you fail. From the time I woke up that
first day, till I dropped was about 4 hours. My third class was actually two separate forms of a
violation of the code of conduct. Not only did the teacher demand I
plagiarize my paper, but turned
anti-Semitic. Screaming at me that Herodotus was not a Jew, he was offended
by the mere suggestion that he was Jewish. We had a 45-minute-long, very
inappropriate not very quiet very disrespectful exchange of words. The first
15 minutes I was respectful. After the second time I described what his
parameters in class were for a paper ending with “that is plagiarism”. At
which point his comment was “my class I decide what is plagiarism”. My
comment x 5 was, “no sorry academics decides what is plagiarism, not the
teacher. I will not plagiarize my paper.” After a particularly loud and nasty
exchange of anti-Semitism coming out of his mouth, I hung up. Called my
student advisor and dropped not only the class, but the program. I thought
about shifting to the Psychology dept where I was informed of information, I
was not happy about, and dropped the school entirely. As
a result, 3 W’s. Thinking the school might have improved more than
a year later, I attempted again. Was all signed up and ready, when the school
informed me that I needed to hand them several 1000 dollars in cash up front
or I would not be allowed into the classes they signed me up for. I informed them that I would not be paying for services not
rendered with abusive and inappropriate teachers. I left and did not look
back. The end of the call He screamed at me again “I demand you provide quotes, or those
historical to prove you read the material” I replied back well first with the
internet that is pure fiction since it is easy to go get quotes from google.
so not I do not have to read a single paragraph to get a quote from
Herodotus, but then again I cannot quote Herodotus at all since I am not
allowed to use anything other than Time New Roman and he wrote in Ionian. I thought he was going to come through the phone to strangle
me. Ever heard that “tone” from a parent, authority figure, etc. when just
before they loose it
and get angry. That tone was present in his exhale. I then added before he could scream again. “Plus Ionian
language is Jewish, so there is no way the 15 scholars from Rome to now did not
alter what he wrote to serve their anti-Semitic purposes” I had already decided to drop not only his class but the
entire school. I wanted to see just how anti-Semitic he was going to react. I was not disappointed. He spent the next few sentences yelling at me that Herodotus
was not only not Jewish, but Ionian was not a Jewish language. I listened for
a bit, at some point I hung up. Called the school and informed them, “So
long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, good night”. When logic and reason are left
behind, there is no further scholastic point. It is pure theology and
theocracy which has no place in a scientific foundation. Which means I scored a grand slam, all 4 of the teachers I
interacted with at APUS/AMU I not only managed to piss them off, but I did it
by knowing more about hteir field then they did. Those teachers have memorized 100s of books. The problem is,
those books are like memorizing the scripts from Fox News, mostly pure
fiction being presented at facts and historically accurate information. 3 Ws were the result of my
time at this school. |
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