There is a strange student on the scene at the community college. This student is one who is undereducated.   No, I did not make a mistake.  I did not mean to say, “uneducated.”  I meant to say, “undereducated.”  An uneducated student is one who has been prepared with knowledge and skills, which would enable him or her to function within the social norms of a society. The undereducated student is one who does not have the knowledge and skills to function within the social norms of a given society.  At the community college, the undereducated student, is the one who is beginning to dominate the classroom environment.  Below are a few characteristics of the undereducated student:

   (a) the undereducated student comes to the class without the appropriate materials, such as books, paper, pencils and pens:

   (b) this student does not possess neither any classroom etiquette nor civility: 

   (c) the undereducated student has had no parenting, and, therefore, comes to class late, plays and talks during class time, sleeps in class, and possesses a nonchalant attitude:

 (d) this student sees himself or herself as a victim of society, and, any failures in his or her life, is always someone else’s fault;

(e) the undereducated student, constantly harasses the professor with questions, in which the answers are already in the course syllabus.  All he or she has to do is, simply, read the syllabus, and stop wasting the professor’s time with silly questions, but, this student will not read anything outside a text message on a cell phone:

    Professors, across America, at the community colleges, do not think it is strange if you have students in your courses, who have never had an essay exam or who can barely read or write.  These students graduated from high schools that really did not teach them anything.  In fact, many of these high schools deceive these students in having them think that they are intellectual giants, when truly intellectually, they are midgets.  The sad thing about all of this is, that the two-year institutions are becoming nothing more than glorified high schools. Individuals are walking through the community doors, wanting high grades for mediocre work, as Peter Sacks pointed out years ago, in his book,  Generation X Goes To College.  The undereducated student can definitely be a hazard to a professor’s health.

                                          The Bowtie Professor Speaks

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