If you go to a state university, odds are your professor is largely paid by the taxpayers, either of the state or the U.S. via the NSF/NIH/DoE etc. Professors

If you go to a state university, odds are your professor is largely paid by the taxpayers, either of the state or the U.S. via the NSF/NIH/DoE etc. Professors are not your employees, and the notion that you should get your class "the way you want" - especially considering a likely double digit number of students all wanting it their way - is absurd.