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My brother is a teacher, my sister-in-law is a teacher, my cousin is a teacher, to name a few. I believe they'd all agree that this response lacks professionalism.

Adams is not an elementary or high school teacher. He is a university professor. He is educating people who demand all the rights of adulthood; why should he baby them? Their future employers would not want an employee who repeatedly goofs off, gets warned that they are about to lose their job, and then wants to do something extra at the last minute to save their butt, invoking the disability card.

He is educating people who demand all the rights of adulthood; why should he baby them?

I wouldn't talk to a 50 year old that way. People of all ages deserve professionalism.

Their future employers would not want an employee who repeatedly goofs off, gets warned that they are about to lose their job, and then wants to do something extra at the last minute to save their butt, invoking the disability card.

They also wouldn't want somebody who learned that when a perceived question is judged to be silly or wrong, to respond with sarcastic, snarky answers. Maybe the only thing the kid is learning is how to be a jerk.