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I guess he didn't see the other student two or three rows up recording the video. I'm assuming this is a college lecture.
I'd say he didn't have the right. What the student wasn't right either though, or at least he could've left the room.
I think people too often think they have a ability to talk to wherever they want but there's still something to be said for courtesy and minding your place, depending on where one is at the time when the phone rings. Think about the last time you were at a presentation and someone's phone went off...it's rude. People need to keep that mind.
Still the professor didn't handle it in the best of ways.
That student is an absolute retard, and if I was sitting near him, i would've told him to get off the damn phone if not taken it from him.
The professor is lecturing. I don't care if its your father. You do NOT answer your phone in class. If you think its important, you get up (quietly), and you leave the room and call them back.
Oh, and freaking put your phone on silent or vibrate before you enter class. I do so every single time.
He sure does considering it disrupted his class. Now, he only has to WRITE A CHECK to replace it ASAP if not sooner. Could be that the call was an emergency to the student. If not an Emergency then an APOLIGY is due the teacher and fellow students. The profesor may have been PO but does not give him the right to destroy another persons property. Stefhen
He sure does considering it disrupted his class. Now, he only has to WRITE A CHECK to replace it ASAP if not sooner. Could be that the call was an emergency to the student. If not an Emergency then an APOLIGY is due the teacher and fellow students. The profesor may have been PO but does not give him the right to destroy another persons property. Stefhen
If it was an emergency, the student would have been leaving the room already.
Professor did nothing when it rang.
Did nothing when the student answered it
when the student continued to talk, the professor dealt with it.
Oh pleez...what gives the Professor any right to destroy someone's property. I would have kicked him in the head had he grabbed my phone and smashed it. Obviously, the student didn't have respect for the class, but still, that seems a bit excessive on the professor's part.
I think the OP worded the question in a difficult way.
I voted 'yes' but I don't think the prof had the RIGHT to destroy the phone, but I think he was right to do something drastic to the ignoramus talking in the middle of a lecture.
The phone-answering fool deserved a major shock and/or punishment.
Rather than smashing the phone, I would start the lecture by bringing in a large jug of water, then warn the students that any phones which are not IMMEDIATELY silenced will be given a long cold bath.
What if it were the person's boss, and they were at work? Would the boss have the right to smash a cellphone?
Of course, because an employee is considered a person who has rights. Why would a student not be considered the same? The professor should have asked the student to leave the room, and reprimanded him later. Just like a boss would do later.
Another out of context question with no simple answer. Perhaps this student has repeatedly done this and been asked to refrain from bringing in his cell phone? Perhaps there is a strict rule about the use of a cell phone in classrooms? Perhaps any number of scenarios?
If I had been the teacher, I might have taken the phone away--probably wouldn't be angry enough to break it.
Did the professor have the right to break the cell phone? No.
Is this something I'd like to do on a daily basis in my own classroom? Ohhhhhh, yeah .....
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