Right on. On my campus, several years ago, a student wrote an essay in which he said he was going to rape and kill the professor–the one who was teaching that class.
Maybe he was just being a jerk. Maybe he was being serious. I am reasonably sure they chucked him out, though, among other things, because you just can’t take chances.
There are plenty of other students trying to get in.
That is one of the worst-written articles I’ve ever read.
Is there any official report of the expulsion? Because I agree with jjimm that that article is terribly written, and I’m not sure I’d trust it.
Somewhere, there are parents who worked their butts off to pay for her to sit in that seat, the one she’s having a beakdown in. I feel bad for them right now.
Cheer up, maybe she just took out a bunch of student loans and we’ll all end up paying for it.
You’re right. Expulsion was what I was hoping for, though.
Crowd dynamics. People don’t react the way you think they would. It’s the same issue with the professor. They are all waiting for someone else to intervene. Note that when someone from outside the crowd finally shows up and does intervene, they get immediate assistance from three or four others. Before that point, no one wants to be the first.
Regards,
-Bouncer-
Did you notice how the professor CONTINUED WITH THE CLASS AFTERWARDS? Who in the hell is going to sit down and listen to a lecture on peacock evolution after watching that?
She paid, or her parents did, or we did. It doesn’t matter. They give the people the boot for repeat plagiarism or cheating where I teach, and they don’t give 'em a refund just because it might have happened early on in the semester.
I was mystified by this as well. It should have been clear to him from the start of her tirade that she wasn’t going to calm down and listen to anything.
I can only relate to an experience I had where a student who was clearly either high on drugs or coming down off of them had a seizure in a class of mine that was the last class before an exam. I stopped class, we called the police and the EMTs and dealt with the situation, and after giving the class a little bit of a breather, I tried to keep going. Like I said, the class was the last one before an exam and I wanted to try to fill the remaining students’ need for a review. It didn’t work well, and after talking about it with the other students, I rescheduled the exam and the class let out.
I wonder if the instructor was thinking the same thing, something like “That was disruptive and stressful, and yet this is a review session, so should I try to keep going, should I not? What do the other students need?”
Great post/username combo!