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How to teach when your job is to crush students' dreams

I teach intro chemistry to 300 students and I know that 80% of them will never use this material but I'm required to make the class brutally difficult as a pre-med filter and I watch kids' dreams die every semester.

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You're forced to make your class brutally hard to weed students out, and you hate watching their dreams die.

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