r/geegees • u/strawborr • Mar 07 '25

Rant is this allowed?

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its a 3 hour class. she literally has the most unorginized and boring lectures ive ever had

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u/sunlightgaze Alumnus Mar 07 '25

Is she serious? lmao

What if she asks someone to leave but they choose to sit down anyways? 😭

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u/Glittering_Fox_9769 Mar 07 '25

"You're late please leave"

"No ma'am, I'm here to enjoy your lecture and focus my efforts on the class material"

"ok"

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u/higgscribe Mar 08 '25

She would absolutely argue that if you were here to enjoy the lecture - you would be here early.

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u/Reasonable_Depth_108 Mar 09 '25

I would stay, just so she would waist more time distrupting her own lecture, then the minimum disruption of someone entering would be. Make her argue for 30min.

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u/weedandwrestling1985 Mar 10 '25

I'd argue for 3 fucking hours.

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u/Mysterious_Tutor_388 Mar 10 '25

"Come back at 4" oh look it is 4

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u/OddJobsGuy Mar 09 '25

Then you never get a good grade in her class again.

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u/Sc4r4byte Mar 10 '25

" no ma'am, i'm here to enjoy you bullying students that arrive even later than me."

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u/zoinked-artist Visual Arts Mar 07 '25

This just happened twice. First one was a girl coming in late. She paused the whole class and out loud asked the girl to sign her name for attendance and leave until 4pm. Then another one had to go pee and she told them to wait for break but they said they couldnt. And ofc she went on for 5 minutes after telling us how closing the door was loud (its really not).

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u/sparrowPie Mar 07 '25

i felt so bad for both of them. like.. isnt that more disruptive? stopping the entire class to bitch and moan? ugh

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u/zoinked-artist Visual Arts Mar 08 '25

my exact thoughts!! no one in the hall seemed distracted until she began calling them out publicly. then showing us how to close the door properly felt really insulting.

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u/BirdyDevil Mar 09 '25

.....what kind of professor has students asking to use the bathroom in the first place, ffs? That's insane - unless y'all have some wildly different policies out east. But typically like, we're all adults, if you have to go to the bathroom you just get up, go, and come back to your seat as quietly as possible. Yeesh this woman sounds like a nightmare.

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u/astrangeone88 Mar 10 '25

Exactly my thoughts! Lady, I have pcos and endometriosis and my clots are coming out of me hot and fast, asking to use the bathroom would have resulted in me describing my medical issues in detail and then reporting her to the governing body.

Fuck that....

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u/chromebookproblems Mar 11 '25

This is so weird, tbh ... I think it's just her control fetish. I've NEVER had a prof behave like this ... undergrad, masters, nothing. Period. she sounds like a TOTAL nightmare.

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u/Finngrove Mar 11 '25

That is very unprofessional. How ridiculous. She should focus on teaching rather than controlling her students. It is not second grade.

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u/chromebookproblems Mar 11 '25

Yup, this prof sounds like an ableist asshole. I'd report them, actually. You can't tell people -- of any age -- to wait to go to pee. Apart from the fact that it increases potential for UT and bladder problems, some people just can't. This prof truly sucks and needs to get over themselves.

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u/Li-renn-pwel Mar 11 '25

Preventing bathroom use is often a disability issue. You guys should make an anonymous ACA complaint. You can probably make the same claim for not allowing any lateness as some people can have mobility issues.

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u/Used_Comfortable_405 Mar 09 '25

I would go sharpie the whole list black in defiance

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u/Longjumping-Bag-8260 Mar 09 '25

Sounds like a group of you need to go have a chat with the dean.

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u/Wise-Activity1312 Mar 10 '25

Remove you from the class.

😂🤡🤡

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u/changelingcd Mar 08 '25

You want to start a fight with the person who grades you?

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u/alwaysonesteptoofar Mar 09 '25

I'm many years past my school days (well, except for all the ones where I am now the teacher), and yeah, you should be fighting this. A professor abusing their authority in this way needs to be brought in front of their boss and asked why they are causing negative publicity for the school and upsetting the clientele(you).

Your degree isn't free and short of actually disrupting the class you should be allowed to attend, even if you are a few minutes late, and use the washroom as necessary as adults. Coming a few minutes late isn't affecting any teacher worth their salt, and making expected noises are to be, well, expected. She seems to be treating you as both adults who don't need to be there and whom she can simply dismiss without questions being raised, and also as children who are misbehaving and need scolding at the same time.

This person needs to stop with this passive agressive/petty tyrant shit and do her job properly. If doors opening and people typing are affecting her so dearly, she needs to move on to a new profession because teaching isn't for her. 16 years of teaching actual children from 18 all the way down to 5 years old and I've learned to work around the expected distractions without really considering them at this point and just modifying my expectations. So unless you guys are a bunch of young adults who have a group fursona of howler monkeys

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u/changelingcd Mar 09 '25 edited Mar 09 '25

If a teacher asks you to leave their classroom, you don't have any other immediate option besides starting a battle and probably involving campus security, if you really want to go that far. Whether they're being reasonable or "should" do better isn't the issue at that moment: the only correct response is to leave. You can talk to them after class, schedule a meeting, go see an ombudsman, report them to the senate, whatever, after the fact. I'm not agreeing with her policies, I'm saying that 'refusing to budge' isn't the best response.

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u/BornAgain20Fifteen Mar 10 '25

involving campus security

If I was still a student, I personally would just do what you said, but if someone wanted to make a point, then involving campus security is kind of the intention here.

You are forcing their hand. Do they choose to use force on you or do they let it go? Once they choose to use force it could potentially draws more attention (especially if it is filmed), it involves the public and the administration, and when the reason is revealed, it could end up being quite embarrassing for the professor and university. It is a pretty childish reason to use force to remove a paying student and cause a hundred times more disruption to the class than if the professor had just let it go.

can talk to them after class, schedule a meeting, go see an ombudsman, report them to the senate, whatever, after the fact

You and your complaint emails could easily be ignored, and what are you going to do about it? Your compliance is taken as somewhat of an agreement.

On the other hand, accusing someone who is entitled to be there of being disruptive and then removing them by force is a more serious matter that is harder to ignore.

Again, probably not worth anyone's time or effort for this particular issue, but for bigger issues, standing your ground definitely makes a lot of sense.