After the second midterm for which the average hovered around 30 percent. From the nytimes article on the firing. Unless the university is using this as their cancel scholarship class, this guy sucks at teaching. Otherwise, you are implying that across the board the system has dumbed itself down to the point where top scoring 4.0 students, have been coddled all the way until this very point. Then suddenly in a class full of future doctors half the class gets single digit scores. To put that shit average in a different viewpoint, the professor successfully conveyed an average of 30% of the subject he was trying to teach, to a class of 382 students.