Hi Angry -- Sorry that I came off as cold. At this point, though, I really do need half or two-thirds of the students to drop this course.
You raise an excellent question about why no notification went out before. Indeed, for the last two months I've been asking the department to change its policies so we can get some more TAs in class. These efforts were still going on Wednesday evening -- the night before the first class (and indeed, they are still going on this morning!)
I also tried to stop the process of allowing so many students to register for the course when we didn't have TA support.
If you'd like to talk about this more, please come see me.
You raise an excellent question about why no notification went out before. Indeed, for the last two months I've been asking the department to change its policies so we can get some more TAs in class. These efforts were still going on Wednesday evening -- the night before the first class (and indeed, they are still going on this morning!)
I also tried to stop the process of allowing so many students to register for the course when we didn't have TA support.
If you'd like to talk about this more, please come see me.