Professor arrested for shutting student's laptop on their hands

[Eri]

Frank Rybicki is an assistant professor in the Mass Media department at Valdosta State University. Last week, he was arrested for his behavior in class. For assault. What heinous crime led to his jailing?

"The altercation occurred when Dr. Rybicki allegedly closed a laptop computer on the hands of a student...
Dr. Rybicki closed the laptop because he thought the student was on non-class related websites. The student began to argue with Dr. Rybicki about closing the laptop and about the websites she visited while in class."

Yes, he closed the laptop of a student who was slacking off in class, and that student pressed assault charges against him, and he was literally arrested, and now he's suspended, and the police have ordered students in the class "not to talk to anybody about the incident," and the university is taking it all very seriously. Meanwhile all of the student feedback on the school paper's website is in support of the teacher.

Your blueprint for success has been laid out, rude student jerks.

http://gizmodo.com/5788783/professor-arrested-for-shutting-students-laptop-in-class

So what are your thoughts? Unless he literally slammed it shut, this is a bit much.

 

[Ympulse]

Pathetic. Give the teacher a raise and expel the student. Seriously, people that fck off in class do nothing but cheapen the experience for the rest of the students. If you don't want to be there, don't show up.

 

[jakko12345]

It seems as though the "victim" of this incident just had a petty grudge against the prof and now it's gonna cost him his job. Pitty

 

[thethingthatlurks]

Lovely, idiot student and irate professor. To be honest, I don't understand how so of my professors make it through a lecture with half the class being asleep...
Still gonna support ze prof though. Some students just never learned to keep unrelated materials out of the classrooms.

 

[gigastar]

While the teacher, at worst, deserved a caution for his methods, that student probably deserved more of the punishing.

 

[PayneTrayne]

Really? Does the student have broken hands? Is the laptop fucking broken? Like, this kills me, the prof deserves to be reprimanded but not that seriously. Your Facebook isn't more important than the profs life. Like fuck..

 

[bdcjacko]

Back in my day, if you gave a wrong answer, you got 3 lashes from a bullwhip and we were grateful for it.

 

[gabe12301]

I think that it's getting ridiculous. A teacher in my city got suspended(or whatever it's called for teachers) for SHAKING A TABLE.

 

[MisterGobbles]

If he just gently shut it then I don't see a problem.

 

[GothmogII]

What a fair a completely un-baised article. (One could only wish. -_-)

That said, this is a college not a high-school. One from what I gather is attended by people aged 18-20+, as in, adults. (Though, maybe this is a cultural distinction, as you apparently can't even drink in the US till you're 21 legally but can vote at 18?) Now, whether the student was -acting- immaturely is irrelevant. The Professor acted just as immaturely regardless of the fact that the student suffered no permanent damage to their property or person. There was respect from neither side apparently, but in an adult world, that kind of reaction from Dr. Rybicki is not acceptable in the least.

 

[s0m3th1ng]

There was respect from neither side apparently, but in an adult world, that kind of reaction from Dr. Rybicki is not acceptable in the least.

You try goofing off in the middle of a presentation with your boss and see how far that gets you.
"OW"
"Shut up Jameson"
"Yes sir..."

 

[GothmogII]

There was respect from neither side apparently, but in an adult world, that kind of reaction from Dr. Rybicki is not acceptable in the least.

You try goofing off in the middle of a presentation with your boss and see how far that gets you.
"OW"
"Shut up Jameson"
"Yes sir..."

I would be asked to leave.

It would not be acceptable for my employer to -physically- reprimand me unless I myself was acting in a physically violent manner, in such a way where my fellow employees had no choice to restrain me and contact the authorities.

 

[Doctor Glocktor]

Professor was a douchebag, Professor paid the price. Whats the problem?

 

[DuctTapeJedi]

Wait- This was a college, and not a public school?

Dude, in college, all bets are off. I had an prof that would threaten to smash people's cell phones. I didn't doubt him, either. He kept a hammer in his desk...

 

[Rayne870]

The closing of the laptop was most likely a much more disruptive than the student perusing websites. If the student was disrupting the class the proff should be professional enough to send the student out of the class.

 

[Doctor Glocktor]

Professor was a douchebag, Professor paid the price. Whats the problem?

Student be bigger douche. That is the problem.

How so? I sincerely doubt being on facebook is disrupting the class, at all. Besides, even if she was being disruptive, that doesn't mean he can start assaulting people because he feels like it.