> Has the good professor considered the fact that the sneering condescension of his hard no texting/no e-mailing rules encourages the very breakdown in civility

> Has the good professor considered the fact that the sneering condescension of his hard no texting/no e-mailing rules encourages the very breakdown in civility that he's studying? The professor has a responsibility to teach his students. Not just an ethical one, but a financial one too. If he can't teach effectively with people texting/emailing then he has a responsibility to restrict those activities such that all his students are getting what they paid for. I might suggest that a student failing to heed his classroom rules might constitute a breach of civility. He could easily have made getting caught equate to failing the class (this is a class on civility after all!) but he didn't, which indicates to me that he has some understanding of what civility is. He merely asked her to leave.