Two gays on the left, a black and a Puerto Rican.
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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Two gays on the left, a black and a Puerto Rican.
I guess you missed this part:
"...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."
One of the few news stories I’ve seen without the inclusion of minorities on camera.
And the class was.....?
Some people do not need to be in the classroom. Teaching to some extent is a performance designed to attract and maintain student interest and respect. That does not mean seeking student affirmation, rather an understanding that there are rules, obligations and academic goals. Never had a problem in 30 years of college teaching.
Requires at least:
critical thinking
ability to get to root cause (ask why 7 times)
Thinking "outside the box"
knowledge of "paradigm shifts"
Occam's razor
Adam Smith's invisible hand"
.....and others....
This is not the Texas A&M main campus—it’s the Galveston branch. It is probably a combination of both professor and class issues. When you have both at play, you can get a perfect storm. Sending out such an email though is just asking for trouble.
Sounds like they were acting like public school kids. Kids are getting out of control in some places, including college kids.
I was voted Most likely to take a Life!
Dropped out in 11th grade and joined
US Green Team.
Hated school.
Seems the good Prof lost the class.
A long explanation is not owed or required.
Tuco Ramirez, from the movie “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”
“When you have to shoot, shoot, don’t talk”
Walter Williams once said that he whittles his classes down to a manageable size by announcing on the first day that he deducts test points for spelling and grammatical errors. College students today couldn’t pass an eighth grade literacy test from 50 years ago. I’m a lawyer and the level of illiteracy in my profession is as stunning as the egos that come with it.
Curve Killer,
call Me silly,
but Which end of the Curve ?
I wonder if they had him on medication and that is the reason for the blow-up.
These students have senior management written all over them.
One of the great scenes in modern movies. And arguably one of the best westerners ever made. Also liked Angel Eyes.
Texas A&M... Texas Tech...What’s going on here?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRZZpk_9k8E&feature=player_embedded
When I was in college, if someone cheated or disrupted the class, they were removed and never seen again (and I don't think I saw this happen more than once). If you failed or refused to do your work, the profs didn't give an ounce of stink. You could just pay again and take the class again. If the class was really as bad as he claims, he is the one who let it get to that point.
Mennonites
The public schools have been turning our kids into anti-social monsters for decades.
In 1992 I was staying temporarily with my sister. One day she had me drop by her daughter's high school to pick her up. I got to the campus and was shocked to see armed law enforcement on patrol all over the place. Let me tell you, that place was like an armed prison camp, and the kids were so threatening and out of control, they actually needed a constant police presence on campus to keep the peace.
None of that would ever have been needed if the schools simply functioned the way they did when I was a kid. There was strong discipline meted out to those kids who needed it, and the school personnel had a toughness and presence about them that communicated 'real business' to us kids. We knew better than to try them, and it kept our worse impulses in check.
Current day public schools are just the opposite. The personnel have been indoctrinated into protecting the poor darlings' feelings and self-esteem at all costs, and handle them with kid gloves. They allow the kids to act out to a degree that goes way beyond simple respect and forbearance. They just let the kids behave any way they want, then stand back and let the primitive tribal mentality take over.
And folks wonder why the schools are so violent.
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