[Timeout]

I don’t get your point. Are you speculating that students and professors wouldn’t be so “uncaring”?

[Psycho_Bunny]

No. I'm calling the authors liars.  The authors are stating that it's common for professors at VT to call on someone they know won't answer them....and then get angry about it.  Huh?  Are they hiring 5 year-olds at Virginia Tech?

And then the proximity implication is that students would taunt him in the classes....multiple classes.  What college do you know of where that would be tolerated in one class....much less several classes.

Nothing about that sentence is believable.  If it were the truth then Virginia Tech is not a professional college and needs to have a bunch of people fired.  

But, again, I don't believe it.  I think the authors are making it up or, at the very least, printing irresponsible, unproven accusations to further the "gotcha" value of the article.