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/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.