>a (probably underpaid and overworked) teacher

Wow, what a sickeningly (probably deliberately) biased / prejudiced statement to make, without any proof whatsoever.

what makes you think my teacher was underpaid and overworked? "probably" your racist bias, going by your handle, cycrutchfield, taken together with the tone of your comments?

(did you notice that I'm making the same unprovable assumptions as you, by saying "racist", just to show that yours is an unprovable assumption too?) ...

(all assumptions are unprovable. only evidence is proof)

as it happens, my teacher was a (mishie (aka missionary)) ”Murican” :), "probably" (as you said, hee hee) from the Midwest, economics teacher in one of the most expensive and supposedly ”elite” boarding schools in India, a mishie school run by American missionaries for over a hundred and forty years.

(people with brains can figure out why I said 'supposedly "elite"'.)

And as for the "BS", yes, quite right, my basis of judgement (not expertise), is exactly what you said, and what I said before you, a high school class (1 full year's worth of it, which gave me enough insight not to pursue it as a degree, or at all), plus, you know, something called thinking for oneself, which is in somewhat short supply these days, it appears, plus the well-known quote, sometimes true, about degrees:

BS Bull Shit MS More of the Same PhD Piled Higher and Deeper

"probably", right, sicko?

where's your evidence for the "probably"? saying "probably" implies probability > 0, so where is your proof?

(As an aside, see what I did there, by using the italics above? Yeah, gave you tit for tat, shit for shat).