Professor arrested for shutting student's laptop on their hands

[SilentCom]

Sounds like complete bullshit. Unless the professor was trying to smash the student's fingers, he should be let off and the student reprimanded or face disciplinary action.

 

[Dragonpit]

As far as I could gather, he was just trying to catch the girl's attention. And what was she doing on her laptop in the middle of class anyway? What could've possible been important enough to zone out of an important lecture for class for?

 

[emeraldrafael]

*sigh* whatever happened to the days when teachers could hit you with a ruler. I know our middle school math teacher used to give us cracks on the hands or heads with a yard stick if you goofed off. With a metal one too, no one of those pussy wood ones. ANd no one complained.

Then we had a high school teacher who would flip your desk if you didnt sit right in it and pay attention, and make you stand. Hell, I remember the one day someone refused to take notes, so he made them worth points, then everytime the kid tried to take notes, the teacher pulled them away or disrupted it. And still no one complained.

then our college proffessor tried to take a kids computer and cell phone cause they were texting and listening to music and disrupting the class, and all shit goes down. Americans are becoming to self entitled, and it wont end well for our country.

 

[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.

Posting on someone's wall > someone's job? I think not.

I'm sorry, what? Unless she was on facebook while on a projector, how in any way would she have affected his doing his job?

 

[Vausch]

Ow, you horrible man! You've made my hands at worst tingle a little bit! You're so going to jail!

That girl is definitely an example of what's wrong with people |D My computer science teacher used to draw moustaches on students that fell asleep and took pictures of it so he had a definitive way of explaining why the student was failing to the parents and everybody in the class loved him for it.

 

[Dogstile]

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.

You're assuming it was assault. For all we know he could have gently shut it and told her to pay attention.

Hell, one of my old teachers was nearly expelled, because a teacher asked a student to turn their phone off and the student kicked off about how it was against his rights. Retarded, but it happens.

 

[emeraldrafael]

*sigh* whatever happened to the days when teachers could hit you with a ruler. I know our middle school math teacher used to give us cracks on the hands or heads with a yard stick if you goofed off. With a metal one too, no one of those pussy wood ones. ANd no one complained.

Then we had a high school teacher who would flip your desk if you didnt sit right in it and pay attention, and make you stand. Hell, I remember the one day someone refused to take notes, so he made them worth points, then everytime the kid tried to take notes, the teacher pulled them away or disrupted it. And still no one complained.

then our college proffessor tried to take a kids computer and cell phone cause they were texting and listening to music and disrupting the class, and all shit goes down. Americans are becoming to self entitled, and it wont end well for our country.

No, those people are asswagons. Self entitled to being treated like human beings and not cattle, maybe.

No, they made you learn. You werent going to waste their time, and its something that should be taught more. No one in any of those classes had below a 76.5% at any point, and there was no extra credit. Say what you want, but it had results.

 

[sir.rutthed]

I was expecting to read that he'd smashed the student's fingers or something; that's the only way I could see this happening. How the Hell is he in the wrong on this? I see someone fooling around on Facebook in class and I want to smash a chair onto the damn thing. If you're gonna pay for college, why the Hell would you sit there and fart around rather than try to get your money's worth out of your education?

 

[Vausch]

Ow, you horrible man! You've made my hands at worst tingle a little bit! You're so going to jail!

That girl is definitely an example of what's wrong with people |D

Why should attacking people, no matter how hard you attack them, be ok?

Was she injured? Did she experience pain beyond what someone would've felt if they'd brushed up against a table as they stood up? If it's something that barely causes discomfort I see no problem.

 

[LarenzoAOG]

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.

A teacher at my school is suing the school board, the principal, and a students parents because he bumped into her, and yes that is what happened, I saw it.

She is suing the parents for the "assault" and the principal and school board because "if that had happened to a white teacher (she's black by the way) the school would have expelled the kid."

So... I can totally believe such a damn stupid thing happened. Also a little off topic, but I've had someone slam a laptop on my hands, it wasn't that bad.

 

[emeraldrafael]

*sigh* whatever happened to the days when teachers could hit you with a ruler. I know our middle school math teacher used to give us cracks on the hands or heads with a yard stick if you goofed off. With a metal one too, no one of those pussy wood ones. ANd no one complained.

Then we had a high school teacher who would flip your desk if you didnt sit right in it and pay attention, and make you stand. Hell, I remember the one day someone refused to take notes, so he made them worth points, then everytime the kid tried to take notes, the teacher pulled them away or disrupted it. And still no one complained.

then our college proffessor tried to take a kids computer and cell phone cause they were texting and listening to music and disrupting the class, and all shit goes down. Americans are becoming to self entitled, and it wont end well for our country.

No, those people are asswagons. Self entitled to being treated like human beings and not cattle, maybe.

No, they made you learn. You werent going to waste their time, and its something that should be taught more. No one in any of those classes had below a 76.5% at any point, and there was no extra credit. Say what you want, but it had results.

Well, Stalin's mass starvation of the Ukraine also got results. You can't justify torture with "getting results". And that's what those teachers did. Torture. They're no better than the bullies we commonly insult, and doing it to people half your age just makes it pathetic as well.

Oh please, its not bullying. I suppose spanking a child is bullying. I suppose giving a student an F is bullying. I suppose getting fired is bullying. This was negative reinforcement, and if it takes something like that get through the massive ego most American students like to carry about them, then suck it up and deal. Its the overprotective parents that are dragging this society down. If I had ever went home and told my mother or father that my teacher hit my hands with a ruler, I'd get a second one at home.

Actually, this is exactly the reason why a good many of the professors at my college dont let you use your laptops in class.