In “Message to My Freshman Students,” Keith Parsons details his gripes with the distracted freshman students and offers those students a new definition of his role as an educator. Prior to instructing this course, colleagues warned Parsons that returning to teaching freshman would be a trying experience. His fellow “chalk and talk” enthusiasts guaranteed that the students would be unmotivated and overly-entitled coming out the coddling environment of compulsory education. Parsons quickly identifies his audience by alerting readers that his quarrel is with specifically disengaged and unproductive freshman students. He serves a harsh reality within the first moments of reading. As a college professor, Parsons is in no way responsible for the grade a student receives. Elaborating on this point, he urges that it is not any sort of barometer of his success as a professor. Parsons asks students to re-evaluate their view of responsibilities in education; at the collegiate level, it is now only the students burden to learn the material presented to them.
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