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Yeah, this seems like a case of grandstanding. Everyone who agrees with the professor can get on their high horse about decorum. Unfortunately for the lesson, r
by wonderzombie 14y ago
Yeah, this seems like a case of grandstanding. Everyone who agrees with the professor can get on their high horse about decorum. Unfortunately for the lesson, responsible, mature adults don't publicly humiliate those less worldly and wise than they are. That's what assholes do.
So if anything the life lesson here is: wisdom is an excuse to lord it over other people. Score points whenever you can as publicly as possible.
- jennyjenjen 14y agoWhile I initially sided with the professor (especially seeing the department's policies for class attendance), I see what you're saying and agree that public humiliation is more on the side of assholery, if you will. I guess perhaps I meet halfway between agreeing with this professor and agreeing with you; where the student really went wrong was with e-mailing the teacher in this manner, and perhaps that's why the professor responded with such a strong reaction (and forwarded it on to other students). I will absolutely disagree, though, that it's a "worldly and wise" thing to understand and know class policy. He's chewing him/her out over established, known policies. In the "real world" - or whatever you'd like to call it - I, nor you, really expect people to need to have their hands held about simple policies, do we?
- gte910h 14y agoLots of professors are assholes. Some are good people. Some are jackasses who've never set foot in the real world and humiliate 18-22 year olds just because they get their rocks off on it.