Posted on 08/27/2014 3:17:38 PM PDT by Nachum
Professor Dr. Leon Gardner will punish his students at the College of Coastal Georgia with a 1% grade deduction for each occurrence. CBS Local reported:
One professor at the College of Coastal Georgia has banned students from saying “bless you” in his class.
Campus Reform reports that Dr. Leon Gardner, assistant professor of chemistry at the College of Coastal Georgia, pointed out his six rules on behavior on his Introductory Physics class syllabus.
According to the #6 under the “Behavioral Deduction” section of the syllabus, students’ grades will be lowered for: “Saying ‘bless you.’ We are taught that it is polite to say ‘bless you’ when someone sneezes. However, if you say this while I am talking, it is NOT polite, it is very rude!”
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
"Wishing someone well after they sneeze probably originated thousands of years ago. The Romans would say "Jupiter preserve you" or "Salve," which meant "good health to you," and the Greeks would wish each other "long life." The phrase "God bless you" is attributed to Pope Gregory the Great, who uttered it in the sixth century during a bubonic plague epidemic (sneezing is an obvious symptom of one form of the plague).
The exchangeable term "gesundheit" comes from Germany, and it literally means "health." The idea is that a sneeze typically precedes illness. It entered the English language in the early part of the 20th century, brought to the United States by German-speaking immigrants."
God’s Not Dead.
I think he should deduct points for people who sneeze/cough when he is talking; after all that is very rude.
Someone needs to get a gallon of this stuff!
http://www.amazon.com/Special-Ingredients-Revenge-Sneezing-Powder/dp/B0037AUL5E
I went to the link and looked at the “rules.” Interestingly, he doesn’t ban saying F-You.
An assistant professor of physics who teaches chemistry is probably not on the fast track (and a pretty bad sign about the college as a whole). I'm not surprised that he is more interested in pathetic power games in the classroom than in actual teaching.
The “professor” punishes taxpayers by drawing a pay check.
He might be a jerk for specifically picking out “bless you” for his point, but all his points are valid. Be quiet during his class, no matter what. I would hope my child has the sense to refrain from specific actions which would interrupt the teacher but most need to be told how to act in public.
As long as the rule applies to any other talking in class it is fine.
I wonder how legal this is, say, if a student were to challenge it by walking into the class tomorrow and saying it 100 times as soon as class starts. Normally I do not support that kind of disruption, but these are different circumstances, and if it were my child who did it I would fully support them. Let’s see if he can legally drop a student’s grade to a ZERO over this. Then again, “legal” doesn’t mean what it used to mean if you end up putting the decision in the wrong hands.
Yes - it’s completely rude.
Who doesn’t know this?
I wish sick people would keep their germy selves home.
That being said, he sure is full of himself about how important his lectures are.
I can envision a scenario (like Animal House) where during his sacrosanct lecture, the whole class erupts into a simultaneous fit of sneezing and coughing...intersprinkled with plenty of gesundheits and bless yous.
“You are so good looking!” - Jerry Seinfeld
Is anyone else reminded of the great sneeze scene from Animal House? (Starts at about :43) :-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROxvT8KKdFw
Yet another liberal professor that is full of himself.
You’re rude.
Wonder how many points he deducts for another phrase that ends in “you”? Is there an extra deduction if I add “and the horse you rode in on” at the end of the previously mentioned phrase?
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