So. Much. Stupid.
This guy is campaigning for his LEGITIMATE RIGHT to send text messages during class, over the protests of his "tyrannical" professors. There is tremendous wanking, scroll to any random point on the page and you will find some. Be warned, when you stare into the stupid, the stupid, entitled fuckwad stares into you.

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snarkhunter
2010-01-20 01:57 am UTC (link)

He does make a valid point that students are treated with relatively little respect

Yeah, this can be a real problem, and there's no reason for it. Students deserve respect, just as their professors do.

I think the problem, at least in my experience, is that we just get so worn down by entitled or difficult students. I mean, students have, what, maybe 4-5 professors a semester at the most, and at least two or three of them, total, are probably complete dickbags or utterly useless in the classroom. But those 4-5 professors a semester each have 3-5 classes of their own, with anywhere from 15-200 students in them. I've got something like 65 students right now--a very light load. And so while one student being difficult is no big deal, student after difficult student starts to wear one down, and you develop this really horrid attitude about them.

Which doesn't excuse treating one's students badly, or talking badly about them where they can hear you (at home...with friends...over wine...that's different), but I think it explains it a bit.

Then again, some people are just giant dickbags.

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	librarianmouse 2010-01-20 06:20 am UTC (link)
	Then again, some people are just giant dickbags. This needs to be on a T-Shirt. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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