@BarneyPiccolo @eicker When I went to university, it was before it was deregulated and pushed into a profit extraction machine. So, if I had taken a class that cost a few dollars for the course, and a TA had come in and said "Hey, it's my first time teaching this, but I'll do my best but Professor Smartypants has written the curriculum and will be reading essays." I would have accepted that for anything but degree requirement courses. (I was a TA in grad school and I have great sympathy for them, especially now.) But at today's cost, which would be in the thousands, there is absolutely no way would I tolerate this. Your son should be able to transfer to another class with a qualified instructor, and if not, he may still be inside the drop/add window. That's obscene, and in no way acceptable. Oooh, I am so angry for him!