He professed to not knowing for sure, but thought, "The first year
I taught was not good, the second year, considerably better
and the third, a hair better, not much.
"The fourth year, well. . ."
Easy now, Ian, thought Henry, that was the year that Randy
started teaching.
As if he had heard Henry's silent coaching, Ian testified
as if his life depended upon it--his professional life did.
He told a long heart-wrenching tale of the terrible student
evaluations he received in the radiology course. He had very nearly
not been reappointed a couple of times but Lyle had fought for him.
Over and over again, at every opportunity, he came back to
the years of deleterious critiques passed in by the students.
Obviously, this had to be because Trenchant manipulated the students.
"Some of the things commonly written on the critiques were,
`Why isn't she lecturing?' `Course is totally disorganized'
and this is wrong because I am not a disorganized individual;
the course is very well organized."
"Did you ever have her lecture to see what the students'
reaction would be?" asked Jane.
"We'd talked about it," he replied.
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