<p>-Say you give them a hard time in class everyday
-Moan and complain about the class out-loud and under your breath (the class is mandatory)
-Call the teacher names under your breath
-Get into arguments</p>
<p>Can you be reported to the Dean or something? The class has only like 30 people in it so yes it affects everyone.</p>
<p>Why not just be a good student and suck it up? You’re in college–time to mature and not be a prick to your peers and professor.</p>
<p>It’s not me. It’s a group of people in one of my classes doing it.</p>
<p>Well then I completely apologize for my above statement haha. I would think that would be distracting.</p>
<p>A good college prof at a good college wouldn’t put up with such crap. A bad prof at a bad college might be stuck for attendance/money reasons?</p>
<p>I think that is a very simplistic and generalized statement.</p>
<p>Yes, that definitely seems like something students could be disciplined for.</p>
<p>I don’t really know one way or the other…but I’ve been through the same thing. My school has a mandatory orientation class that everyone has to take either their first or second semester. It’s geared towards orienting you to the school and it’s various resources, as well as helping you get an academic plan worked out, researching career options and setting up transfer plans ( it’s a community college ). I found it to be a very informative class. The teacher I had it with was the head of the counseling department, and she KNEW what she was talking about. If you had a question about any course prerequisite, or course sequences, transfer requirements etc, she could usually answer them off the top of her head. When I took it, quite a few people in the class were acting this way. Shaking their head, groaning and moaning a lot…audibly saying stuff like “oh my god” or “you’ve gotta be kidding me,” and just all around disrespecting her. It was only a 4 week class that met once a week. I’d think these people could put up with it for that long and just take what they could from it…but I’m guessing that many of these people are the type that don’t really care about their eduction.</p>
<p>I see this quite a bit in some of my other classes. There was a kid in my math class last semester that literally slept through almost every class…The teacher even commented on it a couple times, but the kid was so out of it he didn’t even hear. The professor just told the rest of us that he wasn’t even going to bother waking him up. Sure enough, this same kid failed the class, and is actually in a lower math class now because he didn’t have a grasp on any of the concepts.</p>
<p>I find this kind of behavior ridiculous, and horribly disrespectful. Why even come to class?</p>
<p>^Sounds like my class. Its too prepare you for working with people (go figure) and we only meet once a week for 2 hours. It may be a freshman/new transfer thing because I can’t imagine people lasting here long with that attitude…</p>
<p>I even sent the teacher an email apologizing on their behalf. She thanked me but didn’t go into detail because it would be unprofessional I guess. she’s been at the school for a years. Idk it just bothers me and others notice it as well. Should I just call them out in class?</p>
<p>I think falling asleep in class is not inherently disrespectful. It’s often just a sign of being tired. There’s one class I really struggle to stay awake cause the prof has one of those slow-talking voices that just…It’s really none of your business. As far as calling them out, why don’t you first try an approach that won’t make you instantly hated, like a private conversation.</p>
<p>A prof should be able to drop any student that is detrimental to the class.</p>
<p>As far as the sleeping in class thing goes, I can see your point. If it’s an occasional thing, I can understand…but this was a 50 minute math class that met 4 days a week. He probably slept through over half of the classes…rarely turned homework in, never studied for tests, and he was the kind of person that showed up at our study group the day of the test, wanting us to teach him all of the material because he hadn’t paid attention.</p>
<p>Personally, I find it rather disrespectful. It’s up to the student obviously…the professor took no offense from it though, and basically just rolled his eyes at the kid. I guess from my perspective as something of an overachiever, I just fail to see why someone would come to a class and just go to sleep.</p>