College Professor Arrested for Closing Student’s Laptop in Class
- Posted on April 4, 2011 at 9:37pm by
Emily Esfahani Smith
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Professor Frank J. Rybicki teaches Mass Media at Valdosta State University. The other day, he was arrested for assaulting a student in his class and is now facing battery charges.
Did he punch the student? No.
Did he throw his chair across the room at the student? Definitely not.
Did he inappropriately get a bit too intimate with a student? Not even close.
He was arrested for shutting a student’s laptop in class. The student, the professor claims, was web-browsing on sites not related to the course, instead of taking notes. After he closed her laptop, an argument ensued between the professor and the 22-year-old girl. Then, soon after the argument, the professor dismissed class early because he was so upset.
That was Friday. The following Monday, when the students came to class, instead of being greeted by their professor, they were greeted by officers.
Inside Higher Ed has the story:
Frank J. Rybicki, assistant professor of mass media at Valdosta State University, did the equivalent last week when he shut the laptop of a student who was allegedly web surfing as opposed to taking notes. She filed a complaint (reportedly about a finger or fingers that were hurt when he shut the laptop) and the university’s police arrested him on a charge of battery. The Georgia institution suspended his teaching duties there, although not his pay.
The professor–and the students in the class–were asked by the University to not answer any questions relating to the incident. Still, Professor Rybicki did have a few words to say about this fiasco:
While he declined to discuss the incident specifically, Rybicki did answer a few questions. Asked if students shouldn’t look at non-class websites while in class, he said that was “pretty obvious.” Asked if he had ever caused physical harm to any student, he said “absolutely not, never.”
Many students have come to the defense of the professor. One said that his arrest was not justified “because he is a great teacher and she [the student with the laptop] was on Facebook, when we know not to be on other sites while the teacher is teaching.”
Via Gawker.
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Comments (208)
TheRealElvis
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 10:12pmThis is the kind of needless crap that costs people money. It is a point of law that needs correcting. Trivial lawsuit is not doing the job. Need new legislation.
Report Post »ZaphodsPlanet
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 10:11pmThe student should be throw out of school and banned from attendance for 25 years. What a waste of time and money. The kid obviously has no interest in learning….. so expel her from the University.
Report Post »commentkazi
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 10:11pmHmmm, I’m glad we need the police to settle these disputes. It’s a wonder that we have a prison over-crowding problem.
Report Post »uncleskull
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 10:11pm#2 lead pencil and a legal pad would fix everything.
Report Post »Schteveo
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 10:10pmI don’t know anything about tis prof. But I do know, todays college students are pretty spoiled and bratish. I hope her parents jerk a knot in here…keester, and have her dfrop this foolishness.
Good luck professor, in the 21st Century, you’re gonna need it!
Report Post »lavieenrose
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 11:04pmWhat an over-generalization. I am a young college student, but I am far from “spoiled and brattish.” I agree with you THIS girl is probably pretty bratty, but how dare anyone generalize college students for this one girl’s overreaction. Many of us have worked very hard to get into good schools, and I’ve had to work 2 jobs and go to school full-time to pay my own bills because I refuse to rely on my parents to reach my goals. And for the record, I know many fellow students that also hate it when a classmate is rude enough to be on Facebook or any other non-educational website during lecture. Don‘t judge today’s youth based on some “bad apples.” We’re just as frustrated as you are.
Report Post »watchtheotherhand
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 11:19pm@ LAVIEE……….I agree with you not all are this way at all some are great young people and are most definitely people of integrity and character, but I also think that this type of young person id on the decline in our society. Many just have no respect for age, authority, or others. It is sad to me because it is a sign of the continued erosion of our foundations as a nation.
Report Post »Coralchristie
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 8:10amDitto
Report Post »Marylou7
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 10:08pmThat girl needs a spanking by her parents. Apparently she has never had any sort of discipline.
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 10:07pmSpare the rod and spoil the child.
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 10:06pmHow can anyone teach under those ridiculous rules? You can’t take away the authority of the teacher and expect anything good to come of it.
Report Post »watchtheotherhand
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 10:38pmThis is the swaying of our youth in the direction Paul has described in Romans 1. When God’s truths are abandoned or rejected by society on a whole there are consequences just like defying the law of gravity has consequences, it doesn’t really matter if you believe in the spiritual laws of God for them to operate and produce these types of instances ( I know taken by itself is not that big of a deal but taken with other things going on with the younger generation today it does seem to point to a growing trend of some of our youth, not all however…..)
They are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31 they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy
Report Post »Echelon
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 10:05pmBAN LAPTOPS and other ELECTRONIC DEVICES while teaching – that will fix it. Maybe students won’t have a choice except to pay attention. PROBLEM SOLVED.
Report Post »bdorminy
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 10:26pmI agree. Phones and laptops are not necessary in a class. A pen and paper are all you need to take notes. If you want to put them on a computer then do it after class.
Report Post »Fight for America
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 10:05pmGive her a bratty big baby bandaid and kick her out of school.
Report Post »CrazyJ
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 10:02pmwe haven’t learned by now not to touch other people or their property? the professor was in the wrong and the student is a sniveling little coward who does not have a bright future.
Report Post »Truth_NOW
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 10:00pmLet me guess, she’s another 22-year old, entitled, All-About-Me spoiled brat whose liberal parents should have taught their daughter a thing or two about RESPECT. Yes, the professor should have handled the situation in another way. Giving her an “F” for the semester would jerk a wrinkle in her britches.
These are reasons why I became a nurse instead of an instructor-no one thinks twice when I jam things up people’s rear ends.
Report Post »Girlfriend-you’re lucky I wasn’t teaching that class.
arx
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 10:29pmthanks for the laugh! If you were teaching I’d definitely stay in my chair.
Report Post »Mary M. Tebbe
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 9:58pmIf our ancestors who traversed this country in covered wagons could see us now! We have gone clean off the deep end. We go from dumb to dumber DAILY! The things that people do and say anymore makes one wonder. I wish there was another frontier to settle. I’d be first in line. Are we bored, or just plain STUPID!!!???
Report Post »KL
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 9:54pmA professor should not be doing this to a COLLEGE student. It is a students prerogative to take notes (once they are in college) they are not forced to. I agree with the student on this one. If this were YOUR child and a professor did this, you would NOT like it either. How ever, if a professor has rules in his or her class, then they can expect each student to obey them. Closing the computer when someone is typing, is not okay.
Report Post »Sparky101
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 10:17pmI disagree with you strongly. If this had been my child (and it wouldn’t have been because we taught them respect for others) she would also be losing some privledges at home. We paid good money to send our children to college. They did pretty good.
The young princess in this story had parents that did not do their jobs. Now society must suffer her lack of good manners for the rest of her crummy life. Pray she does not bear children to pass such disgrace on to a subsequent generation.
Report Post »bdorminy
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 10:24pmSurely you are kidding. This young lady was being completely disrespectful. If updating her facebook page or surfing the web is more important than listening to her professor, then she should have skipped class. This is just unbelievable. This child needs to have her butt whipped by her parents for being so inconsiderate!
Report Post »wth_happenedtomycountry
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 8:12am@KL———–
Report Post »If this were MY child behaving that way in class, I would be really disappointed in my kid.
If the prof hurt her finger on purpose (I doubt it), that was a bad judgement call on his part but I would hardly consider it battery. Teachers need and deserve respect.
How stupid. She’s 22 years old and supposed to be there getting an education, not updating her status on Facebook. How rude. She’s embarrassed and seeking revenge.
I would love to have the opportunity to attend college and most certainly would not waste mine and my professor’s time by playing on the internet while in class.
miles from nowhere
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 9:53pmIf this is a liberal profeesor, it is alright with me if he is prosecuted,because what goes around comes around. Otherwise the case is rediculus.
Report Post »thermonator
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 9:53pmYep, exactly!
Report Post »They have no clue about the monster they have created.
eat-more-bacon-USA
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 9:52pmAssault? Battery? Her finger was hurt when he closed her laptop on it? Huh? She must be a democrat and/or a muslim-terrorist – - – Workin’ the system……
Report Post »daisymay
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 9:51pmHe should have thrown the computer out the window, or better yet, thrown the student out the window and kept the computer…
Report Post »green_manalishi
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 10:07pmTff
Report Post »Liberty or Death
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 9:51pmThe biggest problem facing our nation… the youth are completely disrespectful. If it doesn’t deal with computers or what they want to do… they are not interested. Period. I am a teacher. I have children, nieces, nephews, and I have the opportunity to teach kids from multiple age ranges (8-16). They do not want to hear what I have to say. All they care about is what the “INTERNET” says. VooDoo majick!
Report Post »FLyoverman
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 9:50pmThe next time the prof should use a large hammer….
Report Post »Salamander
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 10:13pmAh, the 5-pound ‘fine adjustment’ tool!
Report Post »thermonator
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 9:45pm“Her” is all that you need to say as to why the professor was arrested.
Report Post »Hiswill
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 9:45pm10 years ago this student would have left class feeling embarassed about the whole incident and been forced to apoligize to the Professor before returning to class. I can’t believe he is being charged with battery.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 9:52pmThe student brought the charges. It’s up to the prosecutor to bring it to trial. They have to mediate first. That’s the first thing to happen in a settlement.
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 9:44pmthey should kick the little self centered disrespectful wench out of school
oh wait, i forgot, those are the qualities that the left praises
i really wish we didnt have laws that in effect protect stupid people. nature has a way of weeding out the inept and failing subjects in nature . its called the fittest survive. these laws only allow the fittest to be dilluted with morons .
vegetarian………. cave man for bad hunter
Report Post »JRsas2000
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 10:12pmThis doesn’t even meet the criteria for “battery.” The statutes read battery is to a person, not a computer! Unless, of course, he closed it on her fingers while she was typing—which I hope he did!
Report Post »Salamander
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 10:23pmA salt and battery–he hadn’t washed his hands, thus the ‘salt’ and closing the hatch ‘saved’ the battery? I think he should argue that he was saving carbon credits for Al Gore! Maybe he was afraid she had a compromising picture of him on Facebook and was showing it to the students behind her? If she was ‘in the class’ how did he get close enough to shut the computer on her? He should use an electronic jamming device in his lecture hall–thus local notes entry is all that can be done? Maybe she was ‘researching’ an item he was trying to teach? If she was playing ‘Pong’ or another computer game, maybe the gongs and sploings were distracting other students? If she was watching a porn video, maybe the groaning and moaning was just too much? Maybe he saw a fly on her screen and was trying to squash it? I‘d bet she wouldn’t behave the same way in church, during the sermon! Maybe he should have just invited her to share with the class–and put it up on the video presentation?
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 9:42pmYou just don’t mess with us in Georgia!
True, the professor could have handled the situation another way. And he should have.
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 9:47pmshould have expelled the student, instead of giving the student another chance by just closing the computer.
actually expelling would actually be doing the kid a favor by removing the student from the brainwashing system that is in place now
Report Post »Robert-CA
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 9:52pmAnyone can tell me what he was charged for ????????????
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 9:57pm@Robert-CA
Report Post »Posted on April 4, 2011 at 9:52pm
Anyone can tell me what he was charged for ????????????
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“Professor Frank J. Rybicki teaches Mass Media at Valdosta State University. The other day, he was arrested for assaulting a student in his class and is now facing battery charges.”
C. Schwehr
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 10:01pmOnce again, the teacher loses in a case that should have never happened. If I were the parents of the girl, and were paying for her tuition, I‘d be telling her to get a job instead of wasting the professors time and parent’s money…..stupid girl, blameless teacher.
Report Post »Robert-CA
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 10:09pmPolice can’t arrest someone on : he said she said . They need physical evidence – witnesses
Report Post »The professor never assaulted her .
This is all wrong .
marine249
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 10:31pmROBERT-Ca
10-4
Report Post »hersey10
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 9:42pmThis will be laughed out of court .
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 9:44pmThey’ll reach a settlement.
Report Post »tmkphx1962
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 9:45pmI doubt it. They will have a progressive judge that sees this as a crime. Teacher gets fired.
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 9:45pmhave you seen our court system recently?
Report Post »GHill7.62
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 9:49pmThis is dumb, if you are not in class to learn then leave. It is disrespectful to both the teacher and other students to sit there and web browse in the middle of a lecture.
I can’ t stand all the people on laptops during class time. The keys are annoying while trying to listen, they usually don’t pay attention, etc..
Same as cell phones; put em on vibrate or turn em off, and for the love of pete stop texting in class.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 9:55pmGood grief! How many times could we have brought charges against a teacher who threw chalk at the students, rapped our knuckles with a ruler, bounced an eraser off our heads, or thumped us on the head?!
I don’t know, but NOBODY dropped out of school, and we got a good education!
Report Post »unsalvageable.org
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 9:58pmThis goes to court, professor loses, goes to jail for a year or so, loses his job, can’t find another one because he has been convicted of assualt and battery, ends up on the welfare system and paying thousands in restitution to the “victim”…all because she is a selfish brat that wanted to update her profile….
Just a wild prediction, but it wouldn’t suprise me at all.
Report Post »grumpyt
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 10:09pmIt really makes me sick that these kinds of stories keep coming out of my home state. The police have much more to do than harass a teacher for trying to maintain order in his class. STUPID!
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 10:13pmBHO will settle it over beer.
Report Post »sWampy
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 10:16pmThis nation needs a reset back to the constitution and the bill of rights, minus the crap about 3/5 compromise, plus a law making it illegal to charge someone/pay someone for legal advice, lawyers will be the death of this nation/world.
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 10:22pmTime to expell the student for insubordination. Since when does the tail wag the dog – when the rude students think they can do as they please and have no respect for their elders/teachers.
Report Post »Czar Casm
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 10:25pmGo to jail? Depends on his political leanings. A marxist? He’s cool. Believes in freedom and thinks America, with all her faults, provided the best opportunities for anybody and everybody? He’s a goner.
Report Post »dealer@678
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 10:26pmWho does this student think she is. You aint the boss yet biotch
Report Post »watchtheotherhand
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 10:29pmWow really a hurt finger…..Puur wittle putty tat. This is simply a way for that woman to et back at the professor because she doesn’t like the fact that he reprimanded her. How sad that officers took this garbage literally and actually showed up on Monday. I’m sure she will next be on disability from her finger injury and be award a civil suit for millions since her lifelong career of choice is now just a distant dream. Maybe HAWT N SECKSIE could sniff her on his new iPad app and see what moron and ridiculous smells like !!!!!!!
Report Post »Thinkingboy
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 10:30pmThat’s completely crazy. Where I go to college, teachers will throw chalk at students who fall asleep all the time, and none of us students have a problem with this, let alone having a laptop shut. Aww, did the poor girl break a precious nail? Wanna go cry to mommy? We have to get rid of the nanny state.
Report Post »butler180
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 10:36pmOh it begins.
Report Post »The Professors are reaping what they wrought.
Non_Probate_Asset
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 10:38pmInstead of making a snap judgment, how about we look at the law? Georgia defines simple battery (a misdemeanor) as (1) Intentionally makes physical contact of an insulting or provoking nature with the person of another; or (2) Intentionally causes physical harm to another.
Seems like he could conceivably be guilty. The professor probably did intend for his action to be insulting and perhaps provoking. This is a case where a prosecutor should exercise his or her discretion to dismiss the charges. That, however, does not mean the professor is not guilty of battery.
paperpushermj
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 10:43pmI can not think of another generation in my life time so full of them selves with a sense of entitlement
Report Post »off the charts.
Secret Squirrel
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 10:47pm………..
Report Post »A. Valdosta State U?
B. Please tell me my tax dollars didn’t buy them laptops too!
GODSAMERICA
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 10:48pmWell the way to stop this is to ban all computers from the class.
Report Post »chubbzbar
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 10:53pmI have to chuckle — this is not Kindergarten. If the student has the laptop on websites other than the ones that have revelance to the course being taught — that is her loss. These are adults –
Report Post »nptden
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 10:53pmCharge the student with creating a ‘hostile environment’.
Report Post »watchtheotherhand
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 10:58pm@ NON PROBATE……that was a ridiculous comment. The letter of the law kills.. Under your understanding paddling would be guilty of a crime rather than a justified discipline. Just try that with me and I may just spank you in front of every body to prove my point.
Report Post »ihveit
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 11:48pmcould be she instigated it because she was failing the class? actually if she wanst paying attention at that time she probably was..
Report Post »Jaycen
Posted on April 4, 2011 at 11:49pmRediculous. The student should be expelled
Report Post »ME
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 12:22amis the teacher a conservative or liberal? That is the only fact in how “justice” will be handed out.
Report Post »Anti_Spock
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 12:24amLaughed out of court? I don’t think so. This is how upside down LIBERALS have become. No doubt this professor (who was doing his job as he saw fit) will be forced to apologize to this 22 year old brainless twit.
The twit won’t be punished. She will go on to protest… eventually graduate… and become an Obama drone.
Report Post »HEARDENOUGHCRAP
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 1:03amI wish it would be laughed out of court….but chances are, given the social norrms of the day, he will probably be raked over the coals. “How DARE he try to be a good teacher, when the “student”, (I use the term loosely) was busy.” Those are the ones who will scream the loudest, when they DON’T pass…AND THEY SHOULDN’T.
Report Post »thepatriotdave
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 1:17amOk, this is how this works in the modern era… Teacher did the right thing so Teacher must be reprimanded and/or fired. Student does the wrong thing and get’s their own Reality Show. Am I wrong?
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Report Post »jbl8199
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 3:23amThat’s nothing. I still remember the days when my teachers used to smack me with a ruler. They’d raise holy hell if they did something like that today.
Report Post »VanGrungy
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 5:10amPolice need the overtime… Courts need grist…
Report Post »DimmuBorgir
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 7:22amthis will end up with one less professor. I don’t know if he was a good one or not. As far as I am concerned anything related to colleges these days can go screw themselves. teachers and students are big cry babies
Report Post »28_ID
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 9:26amditto – and the accuser laughed out of college.
Report Post »Cerealface
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 10:09am22 year old cute girl might get her way vs ugly old professor.
Report Post »exdem
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 10:24amIs he one of the rare conservative professors and the University was looking for a way to put him in line?
Report Post »Or just another case of an entittled spoiled brat flexing her “civil rights”?
cessna152
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 10:33am“….now facing battery charges….”
Wait… did he charge the battery? Did he charge it multiple times? Did he replace it? Confused….
Report Post »Mizurax
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 10:38amMay I humbly submit that all of you are missing the point. Everyone here has pointed their finger at the student, and not one of you has any issue with the professor at all…
First, I agree that the student should have more respect for authority. If the professor has a rule against browsing the web in class, then the student should follow it. However, none of this would be an issue if the ridiculous rule was never there in the first place.
You all are so quick to point fingers. But you’ve pointed them at everyone except for the one person who needs to be called out. The professor! The professor works for the student. The student pays tuition, which pays his salary. The student is the customer. Explain to me why the student shouldn’t be allowed to browse the web in class? If she doesn’t need to listen to the lecture, why does she have to? As long as she’s not being disruptive, who is the professor to say what she can or can’t do with her own time?
College has turned into a daycare center. The curriculum has been dumbed-down. Why… because as more and more people attend college, the system needs to bring itself down to a low level so that those students who really don’t belong in college are able to pass the course. College is a joke. If the professor is rambling on and on about a subject that the student already fully understands, why can’t she just sit there and browse the web quietly? I know that the professor would say that having the student browsing the web in class is a distraction. Nonsense. If she’s quietly minding her own business, how is that a distraction? If other students are distracted by her, then in my opinion they have no business being in college at all. If that distracts them, then when they graduate and get a well paying job, they‘ll have so many distractions in front of them every day they’ll be fired within weeks.
I could go on forever. Was the student disrespectful? Yes. But the professor’s rule is absolute nonsense. Its college, not high school. In my experience in college, the professors who showed their students the most respect (ie. not micromanaging what the student did in class) were the ones who received the most respect from the students. Although I disagree with the student’s lack of respect here, I applaud her for bring this ridiculousness to light. The professor had this coming to him. Show your students more respect in the future and maybe they’ll actually want to listen to what you have to say.
Report Post »Highland
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 11:46amPut me on the jury. I’ll move to Valdosta just to be on the jury.
Report Post »Trish1981
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 12:45pmIn just world this bratty little twit would have to stand in front of a court room of people and apologize for bringing false charges against a man who did nothing except demand a bit of respect while he was teaching.
Unfortunately, it seems our court system likes to indulge bratty little twits. Not to mention he never should have been arrested in the first place. She should have been laughed right out of the police station. Either the police have taken to indulging bratty little twits too, or she gave them false information.
Report Post »OutOfTheAether
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 2:30pmI must agree wit MIZURAX here. This was an adult, who has paid money to be in that class, and as an adult can use that time any way she wants to – wisely or foolishly. Now if she’s wasting the time, and I was her dad paying the bill – I‘d definitely have a ’discussion’. Nonetheless, if the professor is so offended by not being paid attention to, well, then I’d suggest he needs to re-evaluate his presentation and material. That‘s what he’s getting paid for! As a teacher and/or and instructor – not as a babysitter
Report Post »OutOfTheAether
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 2:32pm…aleit, being arrested was a bit over the top though
Report Post »Kalshion
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 5:27pm@butler180
This professor has done ‘nothing’ to deserve the actions taken against him. If your in class, your in class to LEARN not SCREW AROUND. If anything, this student needs to be expelled for not paying attention and just screwing around.
Report Post »Taquoshi
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 11:40pmI‘m going to note this gal’s name and put it right up next to Crystal Mangum’s. (Duke lacross team) It will be really interesting to see if she makes the news again for suing her employer, or her boyfriend or some poor waiter who happens to cross her path.
I know that someone said that the student pays the teacher, but I actually think that’s not quite right. The student pays the college for the privilege of attending classes there and hearing the teacher deliver lectures and lessons. If the student was hiring the professor, it would be one on one or private lessons. If the girl didn’t want to pay attention to the lecture, why didn’t she just skip class and hang out in the snack bar or somewhere else? Yeah, the prof was a bit short, but having him arrested??? Well, she does have the right to do that, apparently. But I think she may regret her actions in the future because guess what, her future employers are going to Google her name.
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Posted on April 6, 2011 at 3:41amMaybe, maybe….. but I doubt it. If the elements of the crime were not met, the officers would not have made an arrest. To even get in front of a judge, a state’s attorney would have to be convinced he would be able to prove his case. Then there is the matter of civil suit. The “bar” is much lower: “Preponderence of evidence”. This student is trying to make a case out of this: “don’t mess with me”, I was going to fail anyway, so now I have what I need to get that “A”. “I’m entitled”. I wonder what the back story is here. Prior history, shunned attention, previous comments that offended the student…. This just didn’t happen “out of the clear blue….” The truth will come out. We need much more information before we/I have enough to make an informed decision.
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