Pissed off Professor

[Golferdow01]

I could see one of my professors doing this. He actually has in his syllabus that if anyone answers their cell phone in the classroom while class discussion is occurring, it will result in an automatic failure of the course.

I had a prof who had in his syllabus that he would fail anyone he caught speaking a foreign language in class

 

[buckeyegrad]

I had a prof who had in his syllabus that he would fail anyone he caught speaking a foreign language in class

Yikes! What was the subject?

 

[Thump]

Yikes! What was the subject?

Xenophobia 101

 

[buckeyefool]

Yikes! What was the subject?

french 101

 

[Fungo Squiggly]

(ziegler at osu, if you were a business major recently you know who i'm talking about) that would drop your grade a whole letter on the spot if your phone went off in class. she made it clear from day 1. you know what, not once did a phone ring in that class all quarter. it really is that simple!

She came across as a complete pyscho (she made late-comers do push-ups ), but I would take another class from her anytime. I learned more in that class than in any of my other classes.

 

[OSUsushichic]

If a cell phone rings in Manfred's class, he will make the student hand over the phone, and he will answer the call and totally humiliate the student and the caller in front of the entire class.

 

[JoJaBuckeye]

If a cell phone rings in Manfred's class, he will make the student hand over the phone, and he will answer the call and totally humiliate the student and the caller in front of the entire class.

Too funny. I was in a tax seminar and a phone went off. The speaker got the phone and started chatting...had the whole group say Hello. It was hilarious. (This was in the motivational session, not a technical session...so he actually worked it into his material.)

 

[Manfred]

If a cell phone rings in Manfred's class, he will make the student hand over the phone, and he will answer the call and totally humiliate the student and the caller in front of the entire class.

This only happened once, but word got out and students have, every since, been very careful to make sure their phones are off when they come into my classes. I think this professor's response was awesome. It's likely that he'll have to pay for the phone, but the student will have to go through channels and wait to get the money. In the meantime, he will be without a phone. Also, word will go out that the prof. will break your phone and will not take shit. How remarkably rude and selfish is the student who leaves their phone on, let alone answers it in class?

I tell my students: there is no reason to leave your phone on in class. Invariably, one asks: what if there is an emergency at home or my mother is sick? I respond by asking if they are trained emergency medical technicians. Because if they're not, there is NOTHING they can do now that can't wait until after class.

However, over the last few years, I have had two exceptions to this rule. First, I was teaching a summer class at Harvard and one of my students was a 60 y/o man whose daughter was pregnant and due to deliver at any minute. He wanted to be there for the delivery and I let him keep his cell phone turned on. Additionally, I have had a few single mothes in my classes who have requested that they keep their cell phones on (vibrate) in case their children get sick at school. In neither situation has one ever gone off.

 

[Bleed S & G]

Ya, the kid is obviously a fuckin piece

 

[JoJaBuckeye]

I have had a few single mothes in my classes who have requested that they keep their cell phones on (vibrate) in case their children get sick...

Uh huh. wink. nod.

(j/k)

 

[Steve19]

Bet nobody took any more calls in that class. I take the Mannfred route: take the phone put it on speaker phone and embarrass the caller and callee. Has the same result without the other costs!

 

[HineyBuck]

Yeah, it's on my syllabus, too--cell phone goes off, lose a letter grade (exceptions for EMTs, volunteer firefighters, and others who present legitimate need). My question--what do we do about those who use their cell phones to record our classroom antics (and post them on YouTube)?

 

[fourteenandoh]

She came across as a complete pyscho (she made late-comers do push-ups ), but I would take another class from her anytime. I learned more in that class than in any of my other classes.

Absolutely! She did that on purpose. She was a psycho bitch the first week to scare away the pussies then she was the coolest teacher i had at OSU. I also learned more in that class than any other. Any time I would hear kids telling others to avoid her classes I would just laugh and ask them if they dropped. More times than not, they had.

 

[BUCKYLE]

I tell my students: there is no reason to leave your phone on in class. Invariably, one asks: what if there is an emergency at home or my mother is sick? I respond by asking if they are trained emergency medical technicians. Because if they're not, there is NOTHING they can do now that can't wait until after class.

The biggest reason I carry a cell phone is in case of a family emergency. If one of my family members calls, I answer, weather at work or not.

If my mother were to call, and I will answer, WHOMEVER tries to take that phone from me is in for a world of hurt. I may not be a emergency medical technician, but I would be leaving work, class, whatever, to attend to my family. Period.

 

[Thump]

The biggest reason I carry a cell phone is in case of a family emergency. If one of my family members calls, I answer, weather at work or not.

If my mother were to call, and I will answer, WHOMEVER tries to take that phone from me is in for a world of hurt. I may not be a emergency medical technician, but I would be leaving work, class, whatever, to attend to my family. Period.

Oh how humanity ever survived before the cell phone.