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Sent to a friend This happened twenty years ago, but don't tell me it's too late to complain! The Web wasn't around back then, and the injury never wore off.Ian W. Smith was teaching at CCV, a community college in Brattleboro, VT. I had warned him in person that I might be late with my paper, and he orally agreed that I could turn my paper in late.
When I called him to tell him my paper was finished, he assailed me with out-of-contol demoralizing and humiliation. He treated me like I was an 18 year old party student, when in reality I was a responsible 31 year old with a husband and child. When I went to CCV to complain, the counselor was already cued in that I was naive (trusted people to be good and reasonable) and vulnerable (I had an anxiety disorder) and therefore easy to shame into my "place". So I was further demoralized and scathed, and because I was too proud to take the blame when I had not been in the wrong, I failed the course that I had worked so hard at. To add insult to injury, Mr. Smith wrote a lot a psychological gibberish into my permanent record to make me look looney and loopy so anyone I talked to would discredit me.
Later I learned that many older, good, and responsible students had complained about this instructor. I was still too demoralized to make a formal complaint, probably because of my anxiety disorder. I have become much more assertive since those days.
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