College Instructor Teaches Wrong Course

[WildBill]

HOUSTON -- For college students, a straight-A average is a crucial building block on the road to success, but imagine having that average jeopardized because of a teacher’s mistake.

That’s what Lauren Firmin claims happened in her Fall 2013 semester at Lonestar College- University Park in northwest Harris County.

The class she had enrolled in and thought she was taking was an ‘Intro to Chemistry’ course, a study of the basics of the science.

Yet this student with a 4.0 grade average found herself unexpectedly struggling with the material.

“I was getting 40’s on every test,” said Firmin. “I studied as hard as I could, did everything in my power to try.”

Then, shortly before the class’ final exam, Firmin claims teacher Thao Shirley Nguyen admitted something.

“She told her mistake in class to all of the students,” Firmin told the KHOU 11 News I-Team.

And the mistake: “She was teaching general chemistry, another course, all semester.”

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[SewTexas]

first day of class "Hi, welcome to ...... here is the syllabus"

"wait, this is suppose to be ......"?

what happened?

[jmra]

first day of class "Hi, welcome to ...... here is the syllabus"

"wait, this is suppose to be ......"?

what happened?

The teacher is a toker, that's what happened.

[mamabearCali]

What! That is crazy. I would be furious. You need to give the kids back their money for that class and comp them the $$ for the proper class.

[WildBill]

Very strange. I can not find this instructor on Lone Star College's website. Maybe she is part time.

[jmra]

Very strange. I can not find this instructor on Lone Star College's website.

May not have been the teacher of record. Becoming more and more common for the teacher of record to only teach a few of the classes each semester.

[WildBill]

Very strange. I can not find this instructor on Lone Star College's website.

May not have been the teacher of record. Becoming more and more common for the teacher of record to only teach a few of the classes each semester.

That could be why she was confused and taught the wrong course.

Have you ever looked at their website and tried to figure out what class is what?

Intro to Chemistry, General Chemistry, what does it matter?

[jmra]

Very strange. I can not find this instructor on Lone Star College's website.

May not have been the teacher of record. Becoming more and more common for the teacher of record to only teach a few of the classes each semester.

That could be why she was confused and taught the wrong course.

Intro to Chemistry, General Chemistry, what does it matter?

Probably like Alg 1 vs Alg 2. Intro to Chemistry would provide the foundation needed for Gen Chemistry.

[WildBill]

Very strange. I can not find this instructor on Lone Star College's website.

May not have been the teacher of record. Becoming more and more common for the teacher of record to only teach a few of the classes each semester.

That could be why she was confused and taught the wrong course.

Intro to Chemistry, General Chemistry, what does it matter?

Probably like Alg 1 vs Alg 2. Intro to Chemistry would provide the foundation needed for Gen Chemistry.

Introduction to Chemistry is for people who never took HS Chemistry and lack basic science and math skills.

[nightmare69]

I would have understood the mistake, as long as they far me an A for the class.

[WildBill]

I would have understood the mistake, as long as they far me an A for the class.

One of the main reasons for the complaint is that one "4.0 GPA" student was getting 40% on the tests and didn't like it.

If she had gotten an A she wouldn't have complained.

[jmra]

Very strange. I can not find this instructor on Lone Star College's website.

May not have been the teacher of record. Becoming more and more common for the teacher of record to only teach a few of the classes each semester.

That could be why she was confused and taught the wrong course.

Intro to Chemistry, General Chemistry, what does it matter?

Probably like Alg 1 vs Alg 2. Intro to Chemistry would provide the foundation needed for Gen Chemistry.

Introduction to Chemistry is for people who never took HS Chemistry and have lack basic science and math skills.

Introduction to Chemistry is usually taken by non science majors. For many non science majors it may well have been 3 years since they took Chemistry in HS.
Not to mention, in HS a student who gets an A in an AP or preAP course receives 5 points instead of 4. This can make a HS gpa of 4.0 less impressive than one might think (the student might not have been "all that").

[WildBill]

Very strange. I can not find this instructor on Lone Star College's website.

May not have been the teacher of record. Becoming more and more common for the teacher of record to only teach a few of the classes each semester.

That could be why she was confused and taught the wrong course.

Intro to Chemistry, General Chemistry, what does it matter?

Probably like Alg 1 vs Alg 2. Intro to Chemistry would provide the foundation needed for Gen Chemistry.

Introduction to Chemistry is for people who never took HS Chemistry and have lack basic science and math skills.

Introduction to Chemistry is usually taken by non science majors. For many non science majors it may well have been 3 years since they took Chemistry in HS.

Obviously, my "What Does It Matter" Hillary reference has gone unnoticed.

[jmra]

Very strange. I can not find this instructor on Lone Star College's website.

May not have been the teacher of record. Becoming more and more common for the teacher of record to only teach a few of the classes each semester.

That could be why she was confused and taught the wrong course.

Intro to Chemistry, General Chemistry, what does it matter?

Probably like Alg 1 vs Alg 2. Intro to Chemistry would provide the foundation needed for Gen Chemistry.

Introduction to Chemistry is for people who never took HS Chemistry and have lack basic science and math skills.

Introduction to Chemistry is usually taken by non science majors. For many non science majors it may well have been 3 years since they took Chemistry in HS.

Obviously, my "What Does It Matter" Hillary reference has gone unnoticed.

I got it, I'm just trying to pad my post count.

[nightmare]

Based on the story, it sounds like one of the classes is for people who want to learn about chemistry in community college and the other is for people who want an easy A on their transcript next to the word chemistry.

Was that too honest?

Intro to Chemistry, General Chemistry, what does it matter?

You have to pass the class to find out what's in it.