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Originally Posted by New Era
How about the conservative students keeping their yaps shut, respect the classroom, the other students, the faculty, the school, and the process?
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I hope you can appreciate there is a time and a place for being put on the front line and having to engage in fact-checking. The lecture hall should not be that place. As I said, how effective would you be at presenting your case if the gallery were able to just shout out ignorant noise during your presentation or examination? Do you think the jury would be open to accepting your theory of the case if gallery were shouting out conflicting and erroneous information at their whim, and the judge allowed it? I love fact-checking papers and engaging students during office hours, but in a room full of other students, that is not the place to be airing your views on the subject matter, unless asked by the facilitator. A time and a place for everything. Unfortunately these student don't believe in these rules or protocols. This is part and parcel in many classrooms these days.
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Well, I guess I had no idea that the problem was way worse than I could imagine and we have allowed screaming idiocy to replace respectful debate on campus both in and out of the classroom.
But with all respect why allow it? Disallow it and take every single complaint to 'administration' and win it with reference to the academic and non-academic misconduct policies of the institution.
There is no way the type of disruptions you are describing are 'allowed'.
Expose it and stand against it or you are in fact facilitating it.