Posted on 04/28/2015 3:25:53 AM PDT by WhiskeyX
A professor threw a Texas-sized tantrum flunking his entire class mid-semester and quitting after complaining that students mocked, threatened and ridiculed him, but the school said the failing grades won't all stand.
"I am frankly and completely disgusted,"Texas A&M Galveston, Professor Irwin Horwitz told his business management students in a blast e-mail, according to Inside Higher Ed. "You all lack the honor and maturity to live up to the standards that Texas A&M holds, and the competence and/or desire to do the quality work necessary to pass the course just on a grade level.
"I will no longer be teaching the course, and [you] all are being awarded a failing grade."
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He should be blasting the other faculty, and other schools these kids went to.
Morons don’t even have respect for their teacher!? That their rich parents pay tens of thousands for them to learn from.
Morons. Everyone but this teacher.
He had enough, lasted a lot longer than I would have as faculty in our brainwashing facilities.
As a prof, I failed 3 entire classes in a row. Small classes, mind you, but still. No tantrum, I checked with the dean first and he agreed they should get the grades they earned - so they did.
Don’t do the work, don’t pass the course.
Professer Gandalf, How am I doing in history class?
YOU SHALL NOT PASS!!!
(those who do not pass history are doomed to repeat it.)
When I was in my second semester of my MBA course I had a hippie - marxist Economics (Visiting) Professor who did the same thing, except only to people he deemed to be conservatives, or realists when it came to economic theory.
He posted our grades and departed forever; Just vanished.. Those of us who were failed tried to fight it; Despite our combined testimony and evidence, the Dean said that ONLY if we could get him to change our grades, would the school change our records, but that was the only way. We hired a detective to track him down. No luck, the closest we came, is that the detective found his mother, who said that she had no idea where he went, but that he was probably “sitting on a mountain somewhere ‘to find himself”.
Took me a couple extra years to bring the GPA up high enough to get the MBA....
But on the bright side, I ended up with enough credits for a PhD, and in my repeating of the failed Econ. course, I found a superb, nationally known economist (he was one of Reagan’s Presidential Economic Advisers) that actually made Econ. FUN, and we became lifelong friends.
So I guess the outcome was actually pretty good... But I’d still hurt him if I ran across him ..
Well the story says the university has investigated one accusation of cheating and the student was cleared, other investigations are ongoing. They are saying that “no-one who passed academically will fail” so it sounds like either there was some sort of conspiracy with absolutely everyone involved, or the professor flipped. Good luck to the university getting to the bottom of what could have ended far worse than it did.
Good info — too much knee-jerking going on with this incident and the on-line responses. Good rule to remember: there’s always three sides - his story, their story, and the truth.
I taught a ‘computers for business majors’ class for one semester at a private U on the left coast. One student showed up for the first class and then disappeared for the next 16 weeks. I was surprised she did not drop the class. At the end of the semester I failed her - the only failure in the class — and wondered why she wasted the time/money. A week later a friend in the Registrar’s office showed me the OFFICIAL grade sheet for my class (not the one I posted, not the one I turned into that office) which became the permanent record. The young lady in question had a father who was a dean in another school at the University who ‘corrected’ the grade so it would not harm her 4.0 GPA. Apparently daddy dearest did that regularly for her.
So all the students who failed this class have to do is to get their mommy or daddy to be a dean at the school.
I failed half a class for plagiarism. I have so much evidence (photocopied homework with some other kid’s name on it being turned in) that there wasn’t anything the school could fault me on.
It was the last semester I taught at that particular school in that particular department. I actually went back to teaching at the school, but in a different department.
I had a Strengths of Materials Professor that failed 47 of the 50 kids in my class. I was one of the 3 that passed... with a C grade. He was one of the professors I respected the most in my entire Engineering School experience. He tried to get me to stay on and do my Masters (be his slave labor), but I just had no use for academia in general, or the entire administration of that school. Still don’t.
I was reading through papers for a professor and when I read one I recalled reading the same thing earlier... went back and saw that the co-captain of the school’s girl’s swim team had simply taken the paper a friend wrote and changed a few words... Pointed this out to the professor and nothing ever became of it, because he didn’t want to rock the boat with athletics.
You did right
On my first day of teaching, as a 22 year old grad students, I walked into the classroom and sat down at the front desk. I was nervous. There was an elderly lady in the front row who said “You can’t teach me algebra, I have children older than you.” Of course the whole class started laughing at me. I turned around and looked at the lady and told her “If a three year old kid could teach me math, I would sit down, shut up, and listen.” The whole class gasped, but they got the message of who was in control. I have never lost control of a classroom. This teacher lost control of his class. Why did he lose control?
You should have notified the dean that if this daddy’s correction was not removed and the lazy student is not given her true grade you would report this blatant academic fraud to the universities accrediting entity.
Bravo on your reaction! Working in so-called academia I am amazed at the carrying on that some professors allow in their classrooms. I have heard complaints on everything from cell phone conversations, endless tardiness, endless absences, moaning about assignment deadlines, you didn’t tell us exactly what was on the test, you mean you really meant this date for the paper being due was the final date etc...
And my response is contact the dean and tell them this student is going to be kicked out of class and tell him/her why. If they don’t have the rest of your class contact the dean and demand a refund because of the distractions he or she is allowing.
We have one professor on my campus who is from Syria originally and he is hard nosed old school. He locks the door when class starts, you can leave but you can’t come back in once class has started. Three absences and you fail period. Talk on a cell phone at your own risk he will tell you to get out and you are counted absent. He accepts no excuses for failure as he does give a review for his exams. But the students who pass his class will tell you if you can pass his class you can pass any state or national exam thrown at you in that area.
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