Posted on 05/07/2024 9:41:27 AM PDT by DFG
The University of North Carolina is facing criticism after instructors announced they would withhold grades from students until the school reinstated individuals suspended for pro-Palestinian demonstrations on campus.
On Monday, the university at Chapel Hill confirmed reports of professors punishing students by refusing to submit grades unless the school administration ends suspensions of those who engaged in protests last week. Nick Craig, a local radio host in Wilmington, North Carolina, published a screenshot of a professor’s message to students about holding their grades hostage.
“The University has suspended 15 of your and my fellow students for their participation in a peaceful protest calling for UNC to divest funding for Israel’s military action against civilians in Gaza,” said the unnamed teacher. “In solidarity with these students, I (along with many other faculty, teaching assistants, fellows, and graders across campus) have decided to withhold my reporting of final grades to the Registrar’s Office.”
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Nice. All the money you spent to send your child to college, you get this. 🙄
If a professor does not do his job, don’t pay him. If he uses his position to threaten or harm students who don’t agree with his politics, then fire him.
That isn’t part of their teaching contract, and should be fired immediately.
Another graphic example of why TENURE needs to be eliminated. Employees who have absolutely no fear of any kind of discipline are free to wreck everything in support of their fantasies.
GMTA
No grades, no transcript
No transcript, job applications are incomplete
Incomplete job application = no job
The students’ (and parents’) ire is rightly directed at the individual professors.
As in a class-action lawsuit.
Sucks to be them.
I would file a class action lawsuit naming every professor involved and UNC with every violation imaginable. Let’s see how quickly UNC reacts to these “professors” denying their students their rights.
ABSOFREEPINGLUTELY!
I sense a “tipping point!”
Muck out the LIEberal academy and run in some FResh, conservative MAGA, America First professors!
Immediate lawsuit against the professors individually plus a visit by the parents?
Tuition is paid, classes taken, students graded, and students expect the school to have those grades processed. Sounds like a contract that the non-protesters should expect to be fulfilled.
The governor of North Carolina is a Marxist Democrat.
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