"I can not live with this shame"

1) Copy of Shogun episode, wound to the seppuku episode and this quotation.

2) Given your excellent command of English and the techno- eptness to assert your Professionalism VS this ex-flack's:

A list of the (whatever stuff was on this silly list, that you didn't mention) and your response to the time-overhead, the side effects and the implications re teaching technical principles of the General kind (?)

3) Request for a formal debate on the efficacy of the languages you plan to emphasize for educational experience VS "commercial considerations".. (not the least of which might be -?- "whether there will BE a 'Microsoft Presence'" for your students.. some months after Longhorn's database-file-system + auto-obsolescence of all old software - is pushed out). Emergency ref: aaxnet.com :-\ufffd

Sorry, but - everything Is a Play! So I'm just pondering how you can create the most dramatic effect, a stark (engaging?) revelation of your natural aversion to the arbitrary dictats of Suited-ones: who have no direct stake in the ethical consequences of purveying mindless *commercialized* -but stupid and transitory- IT marketing ploys.. and calling that, ed-ja-Kay-shun. (Natch not so directly)

Samurai-grade Nyet on .nyet, in other words. (Reminding said droid of the Universal Bizness unWillingness to 'trust' M$ with the stupid Passport lock-in scam - either: a true "sense of the Marketplace"). Aver: mistrust has only Grown. For that ya gots lots of recent links re the odor of that reputation.

Yeah, long shot - yet Novelty (as within CVs and such) can occasionally momentarily-awaken even the banana slug, long enough to salt its slime-trail.
At the least, you could go out like a blazing meteor _^^^{^}

Luck,

Ashton

along with the suggestions. (Though I had to read through your post several times to parse out what you were saying. Your prose is thick and chewy, my friend.)

However, I don't feel that there would be sufficient long-term payback in the strategy you suggest. It's a for-profit school, therefore short-term thinking and the bottom line are the primary decision generators.

As I mentioned earlier, I don't plan on staying there too much longer. While I'm here, I feel that the best use of my time and energy would be to continue improving my classes, do the best I can for my students and try to set as best an example as I can.

They know that I'm one of the best instructors they've got (we get evaluated by our students every term and my numbers are consistently high). When something interferes with my teaching, they find out from me right away.

Threats and ultimatums aren't my style. If I'm going to do something, I just do it.

Before I took this job, I was a senior consultant with a Big Five firm that wouldn't even talk to you if your sales revenue was less than x million/year. I left that job because I had certain disagreements with the ethics of my employers. I took a very large pay cut to become a teacher, but I sleep better at night now.

They can't motivate me with money or threats. What motivates me are things over which they have no control.

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