Students should respect professors in class

If I am forced to attend a class I deem worthless (i.e. ISS, ISB, ISP, WRA, ATL, IAH) I will do whatever I can to prevent me from falling asleep and snoring loudly which actually might disrupt the learning experience.
These professors should realize I pay to attend there class and as long as my presence does not disrupt others they should have no right to remove me from the room.
If I pay 1500 dollars for a class and want to show up and read a book in the front row that is my right as a consumer.
Unfortunately the education sector does not look at education as a consumer/provider relationship which is why our public schools poorly.

So you’re in a position to determine the worthlessness of a class?Great attitude!!Looking at your post and all of your grammar and spelling mistakes leads me to believe that you should turn off the Ipod ,put down the crossword and actually learn something!!! If you don’t like the classes,you could always go burn something….What a narcissistic little douchebag!!!

This professors are silly. They get paid loads of money, they are tenured, and stilly whine about a few kids silent, distracted kids. Sorry, but most people go to college to get a degree and enter the job market.

The prof. is way out of line, walking out of class. Those students paid to be there and he owes them that lecture time. It really matters not what the students are doing on their computers, he still owes them the time they paid for. These profs seem to think that students are in their classes to actually learn something, the reality is that 90% of college students are paying for a piece of paper. I don’t care if profs like it or not, students are paying for these classes and the profs, being paid with tuition dollars, need to preach, I mean lecture, at the appointed time and teach content relevant to the class subject. That’s their duty to students, it is students duty to pay their bill.

Without professors, our world would be… a severely ignorant place”

Are there studies to confirm this statement?

Shocked –

Clearly you’re confused about what school you attend. MSU has high standards for acceptances, and regularly turns away TONS of people, regardless of their ability to pay tuition.

You just may be more of a part of this severely ignorant world than you think you are.

I agree that students should pay attention in class and the above mentioned incident was probably the “straw that broke the camel’s back.”

However, at MSU, the University spent a lot of money installing wireless Internet routers throughout the classroom spaces. This would appear to me as an invitation to be online while in class considering I never had a class where the prof encouraged surfing as part of the lesson.

Yeah Shocked, WSU is the only state school that will accept anyone that can pay tuition.

And in regards to the professor…I think he overreacted, but I commend the fact that he would not tolerate such disrespect. As a student I get sick and tired of seeing the blatant disrespect of professors that happens in all of my classes and I think it’s great when profs yell at the in-class texters. However, walking out is a bit extreme.

I read another article on this a few weeks ago and the prof seemed to make it some sort of weird race issue. He was extremely offended by the fact that the kid was Cuban and said something about how minorities should respect other minorities…It was kinda crazy

All professionals including those in the academia should be respected. I had the same attitude about pre-requisites during my freshman year but I now feel grateful that I took them. Since my interests have always been related to business and economics, I was not as well rounded as I should be. Once you have the benefit of hindsight, you will truly appreciate your experience at Michigan State including pre-requisites and courses you had to take outside of your major. If you are at least 18 years old, it is your duty to motivate yourself to study and attend class. Sleeping and disturbing others are not acceptable and should not be tolerated.

Looks like most of the Spartans need to get a clue. I just graduated from the law school. If your phone rang, you were reading the newspaper (though in three years I never saw anyone dare do that), or, in some classes, if you were caught web surfing you were asked to leave the class immediately. That day was considered an absence and, per the State Bar of Michigan, if you missed a certain number of days (usually 5) you failed the class. No questions asked; you fail.

That is the “real world” you all claim to want to be a part of. If you don’t pay attention you fail. Looks like it’s the students who are the whiners. How embarassing.

Tina,

It is distracting to sit next to somebody who is constantly getting their phone out to send and read messages. If what you have to say is so important that you cannot spend an hour listening to lecture then please just skip class.

So this situation with this professor who walked out of class.. the reason it has gained so much press coverage is the teacher actually proposed that it was the race/ethnicities of the students that made them disrespectful.. which of course he is saying is within his free speech to say.. like that somehow makes him right and not a bigot worth being shot down

As someone who would like to be a professor some day, I can honestly say professors don’t work for the money. They work because they love their field of study. Someone with a PhD in economics or finance could make loads more money doing research for a company on Wall Street than working at a college like MSU. But they choose to be a professor because of the academic freedom they are given to pursue their interests and enrich the lives of students who attend their classes.

When a student shows up and is uninterested in what the professor is teaching and maybe even downright disruptive to his teaching, it is a slap in the face to the professor. You are mocking his life’s work as both irrelevant and uninteresting. And to top it off, you are making his job harder by distracting other (in some cases).

I know I hope for the day when students will be eager to learn about the things that I found interesting enough to study for life. I agree that mandating that students attend class is a bad idea, because you get people who come when they really don’t want to. I also wish they’d let students pick their classes without having to meet random requirements (think IAH, ISS and all of those other classes that both the professors and the students don’t want to be at).

Unfortunately, this article vomits all over itself.

“Students should respect professors in class”

“As long as students are a little more covert with their texting, newspaper reading and sudoku playing, there shouldn’t be a problem.”

Perhaps the headline should have read: “Students should pretend to respect professors while ignoring them in class”

I agree that the correct response should be asking the offending student to leave and get notes from a peer, since he/she apparently doesn’t need them from the prof.

Don’t like the IAH/ISS and other university requirements? Perhaps you should have read up on your major requirements before starting at MSU. Just because you were ignorant of the courses required for your degree doesn’t mean that someone who wants to be there should have to deal with your texting, your phone ringing, or your deliberate mockery of material they find important.