a word about public education and adequate funding

"you would be much better served by a professor teaching this class then by a guy who doesn't even have his phd yet."

-this from a teaching assistant who was basically forced to teach a lecture today as a result of a huge number of faculty taking furlough days on the same day. this ta wasn't really forced but he 'manned up', as they say, to show up and provide me with the class time that i paid for. i'm lucky the professor at least acknowledged this fact and did not go as far as canceling class. (the faculty are required to take a certain amount of furlough days due to inadequate funding by our state as a result of a deep budget crisis.)

...enrage/d_