<p>Today in one of my lectures, I was shocked. Now this professor is a certainly a character (blunt, condescending to students, openly talks explicit material, etc.) but never would I have imagined someone popping off on her! </p>
<p>This female student was leaning over to her friend to tell her something, then my professor said "Would you like to come up and teach the class?", and I don't recall what the student's response was, but by judging her facial expression, it was likely something sarcastic, and next thing I knew, the professor criticized her lack of attention in class and the student basically stood there for a minute or two cursing her out, the professor threatened to call campus security, and then the student stormed out of the class and slammed the door. I hadn't witnessed something like that since HS. The atmosphere felt incredibly awkward for the rest of the lecture.</p>
<p>Has anyone witnessed something similar to this?!</p>
<p>I’m usually that student…kidding, I haven’t seen that since middle school. I’d like to see some who talk nonstop in lecture called out like that, but what you describe is too ridiculous.</p>
<p>I have seen students and profs argue. Heck, I’ve gotten in to arguments with my profs. But over academic matters, not personal ones. Unprofessional by both.</p>
<p>The prof will ultimately win because if the prof feels threatened, he/she can drop the student and bring the her up before a disciplinary hearing. The student must think that its still high school where teachers are helpless. Nope. The profs have plenty of tools to handle troublemakers.</p>
<p>Only when it comes to politics. I’ve personally seen it once in my American Government class. Also, my sister told me that one time she got into a “heated debate” with her history professor.</p>
<p>That student should be psychologically evaluated and her access to firearms should be investigated. If I was in that class I would have escaped. She could have came back with an AR-15 in a rage. Definitely consider switching, or getting one of your friends to pretend to be her friend so you can get more information about her frame of mind and alert authorities if necessary.</p>
<p>There are a number of gadgets you can buy to protect yourself that don’t violate any university rules.</p>
<p>Thereisnosecret you have got to be joking. Drop the class or stalk someone because they threw a tantrum once? Who is overreacting more here i wonder.</p>
<p>I’m only in high school, but one person in one of my classes wrote an incredibly mean note on one of his tests, not completing a single problem, before turning it in. The next day, the teacher told him to get out of the classroom before a short but heated argument ensued and the student acquiesced. He’s in a study hall now.</p>
<p>One time… So this was at CC and there was some guest speaker who was a colleague of the instructor. The guest speaker talked about some cause she worked for. It was something about helping illegals get jobs if I remember correctly, or something like that. I think most of the class was able to write off the guest speaker as a nutjob and sit quietly and listen. But one guy seemed to be unable to do that. He asks a question and within a few minutes it deteriorated into a shouting match. I left after like 15 minutes of it. I only stayed that long because I expected at one point that the instructor would stop it. I just went and walked around for like 10 or 15 minutes, walked back by the classroom and it was still going on (though it appeared that half the class had left) so I just went home.</p>
<p>It was one of the most ridiculous things I think I’ve ever seen in college.</p>
<p>^Nutjob? Those people are common around here and generally not looked down upon. Then again, I live in a very, sometimes oppressively, liberal area.</p>
<p>Wow, no. The closest I’ve ever gotten to that in a college setting was a single guy arguing against the entire rest of the class (teacher included) about whether people are “too faithful” in science.
It got heated, but it wasn’t anything like that D:</p>
<p>I haven’t seen such a thing happen before. However I mostly take science classes and students usually aren’t as passionate about things such as whether valence bond or molecular orbital theory is correct in comparison to political issues.</p>
<p>One time, I told my prof that he was being “politically correct”. He seemed to get really offended, but we did not shout. He probably still remembers it and holds a grudge. Oh, and he was a math prof.</p>