Pissed off Professor

[BUCKYLE]

If his class isn't important, then leave it. Or at worst, stand up and get halfway to the door by the third ring when you pick up.

Yeah, I already addressed leaving the class. Honestly didn't cross my mind. I never attended college, therefore, I honestly didn't think about just getting up and walking out. Any HS teacher would have flipped.

What if someone else has some big life event that is not life-threatening ... but they feel it is far more important than their measly class? Should they also have the right to answer the phone in the class?

Well, they have the "right" to.

My whole problem, if you read my first post addressing the video, was that if any professor attempted to grab my personal property, they'd be pulling back a nub.

 

[OSU_Buckguy]

As for the part in bold...From my earlier posts, you can probably see that when it comes to issues of family, "reasonable" is not a way to describe me.

then for the purposes of this hypothetical of expecting a family emergency, you wouldn't be "reasonable" enough to take the phone call outside of the classroom but you'd "reasonable" enough to go to class? i don't buy it. if you're really thinking that a phone call in regard to an emergency is very likely, you wouldn't be in class... that is, as you said, if your family comes before your education.

My whole problem, if you read my first post addressing the video, was that if any professor attempted to grab my personal property, they'd be pulling back a nub.

kyle, i don't think that anyone is excusing what the professor did. perhaps some, like me, appreciated what he did while still not thinking it was the appropriate response. what we're discussing is this student's inconsiderate behavior.

 

[BUCKYLE]

then for the purposes of this hypothetical of expecting a family emergency, you wouldn't be "reasonable" enough to take the phone call outside of the classroom but you'd "reasonable" enough to go to class? i don't buy it. if you're really thinking that a phone call in regard to an emergency is very likely, you wouldn't be in class... that is, as you said, if your family comes before your education.

AAAARRRRGHHH!

I just suck at explaining things.

It has now been over two years since my mothers heart attack.

My family, the ones whom I'd answer if calling, would most likely have my class schedule.

Therefore, if they called during class time, it's just in my nature to assume the worst has happened. Ya' see what I'm saying? In no way is a family emergency "immenent", that's why I would be at class.

As for family before my education...

My family comes before my LIFE, fuck an education.

 

[OSU_Buckguy]

AAAARRRRGHHH!

i can certainly understand a student taking a phone call that one reasonably considers to be an emergency. if you know that a certain person would be calling at a certain time only if it were an emergency, then of course it's your prerogative to take it anytime and anywhere you care. i'm pretty sure that all, if not virtually all, here consider their families to be more important than their educations. again, the point is that this guy very likely didn't take a phone call that was an emergency nor took a phone call that he expected to be an emergency. there are just too many jackasses out there who are surgically connected to their cell phones for this situation to be, coincidentally, an emergency.

 

[BUCKYLE]

i can certainly understand a student taking a phone call that one reasonably considers to be an emergency. if you know that a certain person would be calling at a certain time only if it were an emergency, then of course it's your prerogative to take it anytime and anywhere you care. i'm pretty sure that all, if not virtually all, here consider their families to be more important than their educations. again, the point is that this guy very likely didn't take a phone call that was an emergency nor took a phone call that he was expected to be an emergency.

Exactly. Just by the student's non-reaction to the prof taking his phone, he knew he was wrong.

Question for those who have attended college, has a professor of yours ever answered his/her phone during class? That would seem more outrageous to me, considering the students are the ones paying his/her salary.

 

[OSU_Buckguy]

Question for those who have attended college, has a professor of yours ever answered his/her phone during class? That would seem more outrageous to me, considering the students are the ones paying his/her salary.

before the lecture started... yes. during the lecture... no. of course, many students are on their phones before the lectures start, too. while the students do "pay their salaries," good luck addressing the professor's cell phone use. they'll just tell you to drop the class or talk to an administrator. few students would complain anyway. it's a mini-recess.

 

[BUCKYLE]

... while the students do "pay their salaries," good luck addressing the professor's cell phone use...

I'd just rip it out of his hand and smash it on the floor. :p

 

[fourteenandoh]

Exactly. Just by the student's non-reaction to the prof taking his phone, he knew he was wrong.

Question for those who have attended college, has a professor of yours ever answered his/her phone during class? That would seem more outrageous to me, considering the students are the ones paying his/her salary.

no professor worth his or her salt would enact a no cellphone rule then turn around and break their own rule IMO. As for your rule about family, just keep your phone on vibrate and step outside. It really is that simple.

 

[BUCKYLE]

no professor worth his or her salt would enact a no cellphone rule then turn around and break their own rule IMO. As for your rule about family, just keep your phone on vibrate and step outside. It really is that simple.

Right. I pretty much agree with what you are saying. My biggest point was, that if I feel it's important enough to answer in class, then god help the person who tries to take my phone from me, it's as simple as that.

 

[fourteenandoh]

fair enough, but what i'm saying is that nothing is important enough to answer in class. it its important, you take it outside. moot point, i don't know why i'm arguing. sorry

 

[BUCKYLE]

fair enough, but what i'm saying is that nothing is important enough to answer in class. it its important, you take it outside. moot point, i don't know why i'm arguing. sorry

I was just bein' a smartass.

 

[Steve19]

I once had two students in an undergrad class taking calls in a first lecture. When the class came back from a ten-minute, mid-lecture break, I had arranged for someone to call me just after I started the lecture again. I spoke for about three minutes about complete drivel. They got the point and no one ever took a call again.

Now that I think about it, I think breaking one of the phones would have been much more satisfying.

 

[jimotis4heisman]

both were wrong.

that being said my phone has rung during meetings, ive answered it. knowing who you are with and what the expectations are is necessary.

if in college that had happened to me i would have got up walked out the door and been in the deans office in a heartbeat. and if you thought id give you my phone to answer nope. if i got docked a letter grade for my phone ringing once, deans office.

though the reality is my phone is always on vibrate. i walk in and out of too many meetings and what not to worry about switching the ringers around.

 

[Flocka]

As for your rule about family, just keep your phone on vibrate and step outside. It really is that simple.

It is really that simple to me. If someone calls you and you deem it to be an important phone call that cannot wait until class is over, simply step outside and answer if they are still calling, or call them back. I really don't understand the debate. Especially in college. You are more than welcome to get up and walk out of class. It is not like high school, and even then, you could explain your situation prior to class and you would be fine.

 

[OSUsushichic]

How about turning your phone off altogether and then check your messages at break or after class? Does it really need to be on vibrate during class?