A Special University Teacher

Every Moroccan university is notorious for some hard university teachers who find it abnormal to have mercy on their students. Choaib Eddoukali University is one of them. In it, there is a professor who teaches Drama and who is so mean when it comes to grading. At first, you may think that this professor is doing his job by giving his students only what they deserve. But later on, I discovered that he is not. Also, the professor in question is so special in grading, and the low grades he gives his students are mostly around one, two, or three out of twenty. As for me, happily, I did not have the chance to be taught by this professor. He teaches only S5 and S6 students. Anyway, what characterizes his grading is that he penalizes students so harshly in that he subtracts 5 marks for every single spelling, grammatical and punctuation mistake. It means that if you only make four mistakes in your piece of writing, you automatically get one out of twenty. I have always heard students complaining. One day, out of curiosity, I made up my mind to attend his class for the first time. Before entering, I had already decided to judge his mastery of English. The idea that struck my mind then was that I would count the number of pronunciation mistakes he would make while delivering the lesson. Of course, this was in case he happened to make any. Meanwhile, I vowed never to attend his class if he made more than four mistakes. No longer had the first quarter of the session elapsed than he had made more than four serious pronunciation mistakes. My message to this professor is that bear in mind that real mastery of any language is not only measured by how many mistakes one makes in writing a piece, but also by how many pronunciation mistakes one makes while speaking. Lastly, I would choose to describe this professor as the blind leading the blind, nothing more.