College is meant to be a time of exploration and learning, not a time for backstabbing, cheating, and bad behavior. Those are traits you’re supposed to leave behind … in middle school!
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A professor at Texas A&M University at Galveston failed an entire class for just that, right before he quit! In an e-mail he sent to the entire class, he lists the many reasons why he failed them:
Since teaching this course, I have caught and seen cheating, been told to ‘chill out,’ ‘get out of my space,’ ‘go back and teach,’ [been] called a ‘f****** moron’ to my face, [had] one student cheat by signing in for another, one student not showing up but claiming they did, listened to many hurtful and untrue rumors about myself and others, been caught between fights between students….
The professor, who had only been with Texas A&M for a year, went on to tell the students that they lacked the honor and maturity to live up to the university’s standards. He also sent an e-mail to the administration claiming the students were “your problem now.”
Unfortunately, the Americans with Disabilities Act doesn’t cover “a few good apples” as a reasonable accommodation. The professor asked the university if he could just teach the good students, but it denied his request, and ultimately led to the failure of an entire classroom.
The university says that the failure will not apply. “None of them have failed until the end of the class, meaning the only reason a student would fail is because he or she has not performed the expectations for that particular class,” the vice president for academic affairs says. It is unclear what the future holds for this 20-year teaching veteran, but students beware, he will not tolerate middle school behavior in a professional classroom setting!
Can you really expect college students to leave “backstabbing, cheating, and bad behavior” behind when they see those things in adults on reality TV on a regular basis (or, for that matter, on Wall Street), usually without suffering negative consequences?