No thanks

Tulsa Community College (TCC) is starting a “Critical Thinking Initiative”. My math teacher is a part of the group of professors starting this. They must think students at TCC are below par when it comes to critical thinking. This may possibly be true. However my math teacher decided that my class is required to take part in this “beta phase” of the initiative. She didn’t  put this in the syllabus, though. So last Thursday she told us we have to go online and enroll in this initiative and take some “pretest” for this initiative. The test would be worth one homework grade, so she could coerce us to take part in the initiative. I feel like it is a slap in the face to have to take part in this when it wasn’t in writing and when she is basically blackmailing us to take part in an experiment that a group of professors at a community college want to do. They obviously think all students at TCC are stupid and will do whatever they say. I don’t want to do this, so I didn’t. Maybe I just feel like causing problems. But I feel like just because I’m in this stupid “Basic Math” class they think I’m stupid and don’t know how to think for myself. Maybe not taking the test is my way of feeling like I’m proving them wrong?

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