conflict of interest...

so yesterday I had my first day of Intro to Social Work. I stepped into class and had to take 12 different packets of information. The class will be a lot of work but it looks really interesting.
The first few minutes of class the teacher defined social work for us, he is a loud man, with a really captivating voice which will make the class more interesting considering its 3 hours and an 5 minute break somewhere in between.
In the middle of discussing social work he asks a question whats a huge part of being able to be a social worker. A woman sitting in the front of the class raises her hand and says being able to network. The teacher jokingly says you mean like being hooked up to you myspace.. the woman tells him he is fresh, asks him how old he is (he replys 30) and she says well im turning 50 so were going to clash a lot.

EXCCUSE ME?! i would have kicked her out right then... but we move on...

not even 10 minutes later the teacher (dr. thompson) calls on a girl... she looks around nervously and we all just look back because its the first day of class so staring isnt awkward yet.. and the woman from the previous incident goes OH NO DON'T CALL ON HER SHES MY 16 year old DAUGHTER........

you brought your daughter to the first day of class...??? why and if she is their shove her in the back with a sign that says dont call on my not front row with a notebook and pen to help you take notes!!!!
the class moves on..

We have the choice of either doing a 20 minute present or taking the final. So were discussing the posibilites and what were allowed to have and he says that we can have a guest speaker as long as it is approved and he gives an example of what would be approved... 50 cent if you were talking about the ghetto... so he asks who is 50 cent and the womans daughter raises her hand and tells us he was shot a few times... then starts giggling uncontrollably and the woman tells her to just say whats on her mind. soo then about 2 minutes later while we wait for her to stop laughing she finally tells us ............... hes ugly..

thank god you took time out of my lecture for that......

So then we go over the next part of the class. We are all required to 20 hours of community service with a social work position. so he then goes over dress code... no flip flops no shirts with inapropriate things because your representing him and the university... so then he says no booty shorts and asks someone to tell a kid in the front who has a dumbfounded look on his face what booty shorts are. so the girl next to me says they are really short shorts that your butt usually hangs out of.. then the old woman says they usually go in a V and our teacher gives her a look... so we spend 2 minutes of her ranting about how she lost 110 pounds so she'll wear what she wants....

ohkkk... moving on...

Its the end of class and its in discussion time. he gives us situations and we have to figure out how to help the people. my group discusses a few possibilities and we pick a group leader... she stands up and says we believe the mom should give up the children to DCF and get her feet back on the ground and then take her children back.

THE WOMAN stands up because it HAS to be her turn now then stares my group leader down and says NEVER EVER EVER promote DCF i had cancer and i almost lost my family and blah blah blah dcf is not the answer. she then gives her answer which is okay but its not much better than anyone elses in the class but the teacher can't even say anything because how do you respond to that.

So in closing of the class the teacher tells us our homework and the woman is like i would jsut like to say something ...staring at certain people in the class. SOCIAL WORK IS NOT FOR EVERYONE IT IS VERY HARD....

well.. lets just say I cant wait for next week