College Professor Stands Up To Disrespectful Class And It’s Pretty Awesome

I couldn't resist. This was BEGGING for a Gandalf meme.

According to this, a professor at Texas A&M-Galveston is tired of his class being disrespectful and cheating to pass his class, so he's going to flunk everybody. 

In an email blast to his business management class, Professor Irwin Horwitz completely chewed out his students and, as someone who busted her behind in college to get good grades and maintain a scholarship while also seeing her several of her fellow classmates cut corners, I appreciate this –

"I am frankly and completely disgusted,"Texas A&M Galveston, Professor Irwin Horwitz told his business management students in a blast e-mail, according to Inside Higher Ed. "You all lack the honor and maturity to live up to the standards that Texas A&M holds, and the competence and/or desire to do the quality work necessary to pass the course just on a grade level.

 

"I will no longer be teaching the course, and [you] all are being awarded a failing grade."

 

Horwitz said students had cheated, told him to "chill out," called him a "[expletive] moron" and spread false rumors about him. He told KPRC news he even felt unsafe in the classroom at times.

 

"None of you, in my opinion, given the behavior in this class, deserve to pass, or graduate to become an Aggie, as you do not in any way embody the honor that the university holds graduates should have within their personal character," he wrote to the students.

We often call out university professors for their liberal indoctrination and other shenanigans when they deserve it, but we also praise them for when they do something that actually makes sense. College has gotten too easy. It's almost become a glorified high school in some respects. A college degree should be something you have to work hard to EARN. Not just receive because of some stupid entitlement mentality that somehow you DESERVE higher education just because you convert oxygen to carbon dioxide on a daily basis.

Kudos to Professor Horwitz for taking a stand. And lest you think everyone's just going to be flunked and whatever few honest students are in his class are left with no recourse, the article does say that students who are passing this class through legitimate means will indeed get credit for doing so. So there's that.