Dear Mr. Miyagi,

I regret to inform you that we will not be renewing your contract to teach the courses “The Fundamental Principles of Karate and Life I and II.”  Apart from your atrocious student evaluations, we have received numerous complaints about your pedagogy.  Upon review, we think it best if we part ways.

Your student evaluations evidence a lack of care or fundamental teaching principles.  Here are just some examples:

“Most of the time was spent painting his fence.  He claimed it had to do with martial arts, but I think he really just wanted his fence painted. He made me buy the paint, too. There were no fees for this course.”

“He made me wash his cars.  Then he made me wax his cars.  He claimed I did it wrong, and forced me to wax it again.  And then, I had to rub the wax off.  For torture, he made me use different hands for each.  I’m so sore.  I paid tuition money for this?”

“No power point.  No syllabus.  I could not follow a damned thing.”

“Other sections taught by other instructors learned more than we did.  He never taught us to sweep the leg, and that is THE most important move in karate. Ask anyone! And he didn’t teach the unit on no mercy, either.”

“Made me fight outside of my class level in Karate II.  I’m a beginner, I should not have to fight to the death.”

“Made me balance on a canoe like a damned fool.  Then deliberately threw me off the canoe into a lake.  That’s not cool, man.” 

The evaluations go on.  Some of your assignments, like catching a fly with chopsticks, were deemed impossible by the students.

We do appreciate your consumer oriented teaching model, however:

“He kept saying, no bad student. Only bad teacher.  And man, was he bad.”

Moreover, you refused to answer student questions.  Your first day, according to students, you said:

“We make sacred pact. I promise teach karate to you, you promise learn. I say, you do, no questions.”

We also raise some concerns about plagiarism.  According to some students, you plagiarized Yoda:

“He told us ‘Either you karate do “yes” or karate do “no.” You karate do “guess so,” (get squished) just like grape’ Everyone knew that bullshit was from Yoda.”

You also apparently plagiarized James Bond:

“Daniel-San, you look revenge that way, start by digging two graves.” 

Many students raised concern they could learn more valuable self-defense lessons from Tik Tok without paying.

In sum, it is unfortunately that you did not reach out soon for proper teaching techniques.  We wish you best in your future endeavors.

Sincerely,

Associate Dean