# Pitting asshole professors who lock the door **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 14, 2005, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-asshole-professors-who-lock-the-door/321523 "2005-09-14T00:50:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 25
**Author:** ![Martin\_Hyde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/47e85d/32.png) [@Martin\_Hyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martin_Hyde)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2005, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-asshole-professors-who-lock-the-door/321523/25 "2005-09-14T04:10:13Z")
Firstly I graduated from the USMA, have a masters from UVA, and have taught classes at three different major universities and several smaller colleges. In my experiences at these various academic institutions I’ve _never_ came across a school that would even consider _locking the door_ on students. This is just absolutely unacceptable from a safety standpoint and I don’t know of any sane school administrator that wouldn’t adamantly ban any such practice. Anyways, at the Academy you _weren’t_ late for class, if you were you got demerits. However a military academy is a vastly different situation from a public or private school. College is pretty much the only situation I can think of where the customer pays to get bossed around by his “employees.” I do think professors need to have certain powers within the classroom so that anarchy does not ensue. But I think there should be limits and professors should never think the professor-student relationship is akin to a boss-employee relationship. Because the student is the one paying the professor’s salary, not vice versa. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-asshole-professors-who-lock-the-door/321523)._