Goodbye Message

by Uriel Wittenberg (uw@urielw.com)

Message emailed to students just after the axe fell.

 

From: Uriel Wittenberg
To: My FAC Students
Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 7:31 PM
Subject: Leavin'

If you got leavin' on your mind
Tell me now, get it over
Hurt me now, get it over
If you got leavin' on your mind

If there's a new love in your heart
Tell me now, get it over
Hurt me now, get it over
If there's a new love in your heart

Don't leave me here, in a world
Filled with dreams that might have been
Hurt me now, get it over
I may learn to love again

If there's a new love in your heart
Tell me now, get it over
Hurt me now, get it over
If there's a new love in your heart

Hurt me now, get it over
If there's a new love in your heart

"Leavin' On Your Mind," written by Wayne Walker and Webb Pierce
(as released by Patsy Cline (http://www.patsyclinetribute.com), January 7, 1963)

 

Dear FAC Students,

FAC told me now -- today -- and my teaching here is over.

This is probably not the result intended by some of you. But actions have consequences, and when ALL students in the four classes I was teaching to Law and Diplomacy majors signed complaint letters about me (without, incidentally, letting me know that they were complaining about me), it initiated a process that would probably have to be resolved in one of the two following ways:

  1. That I would debase myself by submitting to the ludicrous accusations made against me; or

  2. That I would be fired.

Now #2 has happened, and I will suffer some inconvenience. But that's far preferable to #1. Moreover, #1 would have been a terrible lesson for you.

I had hoped for a possible #3: that FAC would consider my response to student complaints (http://urielw.com/fac/openlet.htm). But if they did consider it, it did not influence them very much.

I hope your educations will nonetheless be a success. Like the teacher who wrote "Schools With a Slant" (one of the readings covered in my TH10 class), I think education should be sacrosanct. I draw some consolation from the thought that the affair prompting my departure may provide some of your most useful lessons (especially if you signed).

You may keep in touch with me via my permanent email address, uw@urielw.com.

Regards,

Uriel

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