Posted on 04/25/2015 3:09:13 PM PDT by lowbridge
A professor at Texas A&M Galveston failed an entire class, and he outlined his reasons in a fiery email sent to those students.
But the university won't quite be backing up the professor's actions.
In the email professor Irwin Horwitz sent to his students, he called them a disgrace to the school. He said he will no longer be teaching the course and will be giving everyone in the class a failing grade.
"Enough was enough," Horwitz said.
After what he calls a semester of disrespect, backstabbing, lying, and cheating, Horwitz had all he could take.
"Yesterday I reached the breaking point," he said.
He sent a lengthy email to his Strategic Management class explaining that they would all be failing the course. He said the students proved to be incompetent and lack the maturity level to enter the workforce.
"It became apparent that they couldn't do some of the most simple and basic things they should have been able to do," said Horwitz.
In the email he cited examples of students cheating, telling him to "chill out," and inappropriate conduct. He said students spread untrue rumors about him online, and he said at one point he even felt the need to have police protection in class.
"I was dealing with cheating, dealing with individuals swearing at me both in and out of class, it got to the point that the school had to put security guards at that class and another class," said Horowitz.
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Yep. Bingo.
Betcha the prof is right on target.
I had one professor tell the class on the first day that anyone caught cheating would be expelled, and another professor said if they saw anyone wearing a walk-man (big then), he’d take it out to the parking lot and back his car over it. Needless to say, there were few if any disciplinary problems back then.
I give the teacher the benefit of the doubt, at first
“The department head will take over the class until the end of the semester...”
Poor darlings. Sounds like they’ve been microagressed.
An “A” by the new teacher should solve that.
very true!
I side with the instructor. Same experience in adult education form me.
The only thing I question is that some may not have been deserving of the F.
I’ve seen classes where 90 percent failed, and more probably deserved to do so.
LOL. They drove through barricades and into holes, and got indignant about the barricades? LOLOLOL.
My first thoughts were to side with the professor. And that is based on first hand experience only.
He should run for President Cruz’s Senate seat.
Then again could be college has become the new High School... where kids not qualified to be in 6th grade are moved up.
(((
Bingo!
That’s not how it works now, sorry.
I took graduate level Strategic Management and the guy in my class that set the curve had a Phd in Engineering was getting his MBA and then off to law school.
In my day, I was known as the “Curve Killer.”
I’d like to sit down and have a beer with this Irwin Horwitz dude. I bet he has some stories to tell.
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