Disruptive Students in class at A&M… more societal decay

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10:56p, 3/27/25
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https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1BtAhZMLfc/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Has anyone seen this video floating around of disruptive students in class at A&M? This is crap I expect to see in today's high schools (unfortunately), not at college. It certainly didn't occur in the dark ages when i was in college. But things weren't tolerated then and the school was smaller.

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11:08p, 3/27/25
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I can't tell what is going on here.
Is this someone too hard trying to be clever, a protester, or something else?
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5:01a, 3/28/25
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Just a TikTok prankster
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5:24a, 3/28/25
Can't really tell what's happening, but if it's a student disrupting it would just be emblematic of Gen Z and our current culture.
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In reply to ts5641 • 6:55a, 3/28/25
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ts5641 said:
Can't really tell what's happening, but if it's a student disrupting it would just be emblematic of Gen Z and our current culture.


Tell them to stop once or there will be consequences for the entire class. If it continues "pop quiz time for the entire class. This quiz will be 25% of your grade."

I'd bet the students police themselves real quickly
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In reply to MosesHallRAB04 • 7:34a, 3/28/25
MosesHallRAB04 said:
ts5641 said:
Can't really tell what's happening, but if it's a student disrupting it would just be emblematic of Gen Z and our current culture.


Tell them to stop once or there will be consequences for the entire class. If it continues "pop quiz time for the entire class. This quiz will be 25% of your grade."

I'd bet the students police themselves real quickly
I have done something like this. This is the way.
Disruptive behavior shows us who in the class is not paying their own way.
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8:03a, 3/28/25
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I think it's a bit like a comedian handling a heckler, the prof has to maintain control of the class.
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8:14a, 3/28/25
As expensive as tuition is these days, charge them with felony theft.
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In reply to MosesHallRAB04 • 8:15a, 3/28/25
MosesHallRAB04 said:
ts5641 said:
Can't really tell what's happening, but if it's a student disrupting it would just be emblematic of Gen Z and our current culture.


Tell them to stop once or there will be consequences for the entire class. If it continues "pop quiz time for the entire class. This quiz will be 25% of your grade."

I'd bet the students police themselves real quickly
Then that poor GA would spend the next 3 days getting yelled at by Addison's mom about how unfair that is.
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8:17a, 3/28/25
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I actually had a student who was watching porn during one of my lectures. Long story short, troubled.

I had to ban laptops in my class. The other students got it fixed for the next class.

Nowadays, I would be tempted to go to a "no visible phone policy" if this was happening in one of my classes. I agree, likely looking for hits on their social media pages.

My hero is one of my cadiosurgeons' whose son (almost 17) still does not have a phone.

A cancer on learning.
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8:17a, 3/28/25
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Our school is a shadow of its former self. I recently brought both my HS kids back for their campus tours, etc and I hardly recognize the place-and by that I don't mean the buildings, etc.
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In reply to sam callahan • 8:17a, 3/28/25
sam callahan said:
As expensive as tuition is these days, charge them with felony theft.
expensive for you and me. Others, not so appreciative of an education. Like an old Sgt told me, "If you dont have to pay for it, there is something wrong with it."
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8:30a, 3/28/25
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I can't really tell what's happening, but if it's a student disrupting the entire class, then it's the epitome of society decay of both Gen Z and our current culture.
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8:32a, 3/28/25
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Was it someone trying to make Reveille bark?
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8:45a, 3/28/25
I watched Episode 2 of Adolescence on Netflix last night and it portrayed the abhorrent behavior of high school students in England and I can't imagine it's too far off on how things actually are in the States. It's pretty unbelievable that this behavior has seeped into higher education.
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8:47a, 3/28/25
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A student once streaked a class on genetics in 1974.
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In reply to Iraq2xVeteran • 8:53a, 3/28/25
Iraq2xVeteran said:
I can't really tell what's happening, but if it's a student disrupting the entire class, then it's the epitome of society decay of both Gen Z and our current culture.
This probably could have been a pretty good tip off of the culture at A&M now:

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In reply to LMCane • 8:54a, 3/28/25
LMCane said:
Iraq2xVeteran said:
I can't really tell what's happening, but if it's a student disrupting the entire class, then it's the epitome of society decay of both Gen Z and our current culture.
This probably could have been a pretty good tip off of the culture at A&M now:

It was about 40-50 people total, and many were not students.

With 70,000 students, there are going to be some idiots.

Also, they were peaceful and did not attack or harass others, nor did they damage any property.
"If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves." - Sir Winston Churchill
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In reply to LMCane • 8:58a, 3/28/25
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Wut?????????

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9:03a, 3/28/25
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In reply to LMCane • 9:04a, 3/28/25
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LMCane said:
Iraq2xVeteran said:
I can't really tell what's happening, but if it's a student disrupting the entire class, then it's the epitome of society decay of both Gen Z and our current culture.
This probably could have been a pretty good tip off of the culture at A&M now:

My time on campus was during the Apartheid movement and a small group of students would build apartheid shacks right in that same area to bring awareness.... these must be those students' kids. It's the .001% of the student body and I'd guess that many of the group are not even students of A&M
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9:09a, 3/28/25
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In my day, we'd have a fish detail clear those f'rs out of there.
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In reply to cypress-ag • 9:15a, 3/28/25
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cypress-ag said:
LMCane said:
Iraq2xVeteran said:
I can't really tell what's happening, but if it's a student disrupting the entire class, then it's the epitome of society decay of both Gen Z and our current culture.
This probably could have been a pretty good tip off of the culture at A&M now:

My time on campus was during the Apartheid movement and a small group of students would build apartheid shacks right in that same area to bring awareness.... these must be those students' kids. It's the .001% of the student body and I'd guess that many of the group are not even students of A&M
We knocked those the f down.
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In reply to Street Fighter • 9:23a, 3/28/25
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Bragging that you knocked them down is a choice for sure. Never will understand the desire to demean others and think it's fun.
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In reply to Tex100 • 9:27a, 3/28/25
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Tex100 said:
A student once streaked a class on genetics in 1974.


The Burger King King crashed Kieth Swim's 212 class when I was there.

People have been doing pranks for years.
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In reply to dcbowers • 9:29a, 3/28/25
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dcbowers said:
I can't tell what is going on here.
Is this someone too hard trying to be clever, a protester, or something else?


This guy in the white shirt is being disruptive. Professor warns him and then eventually picks up the phone to call security and the student then gets up and leaves.

Sounds like just being a contrarian disruptive *******.


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9:31a, 3/28/25
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This is the **** that happens at a diploma mill. It's sad. Lower entry standards allow lower quality of students in.
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9:32a, 3/28/25
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Always going to have an idiot here and there...

Problem with the pop quiz idea is the course syllabus. It's it's not on the syllabus, and/or no provision for an on the spot change, no can do.

The biggest part of maintaining control is to sweet expectations at the start. Don't ever let a bad apple like that get the upper hand. Like a school yard bully, they'll cave. They're a only truck pony with no expectation of preparation of for confrontation.


Was listening to Ted Cruz yesterday. On Wednesdays pod he was discussing his "standard" response to someone getting in his face. He said often he can are it about to happen as someone starts working up their courage when they see him in public. That start yelling, he simply replies, "God bless you." He said the majority are taken aback and have no reply ready. He said one last snapped back,"I don't need the blessings of your so called God." "That's ok. Jesus loves you anyway." She stormed off.

A prof might have to walk up to them, just square up, and firmly tell them to knock it off or get out. The choice is theirs.
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In reply to Street Fighter • 9:35a, 3/28/25
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Street Fighter said:
cypress-ag said:
LMCane said:
Iraq2xVeteran said:
I can't really tell what's happening, but if it's a student disrupting the entire class, then it's the epitome of society decay of both Gen Z and our current culture.
This probably could have been a pretty good tip off of the culture at A&M now:

My time on campus was during the Apartheid movement and a small group of students would build apartheid shacks right in that same area to bring awareness.... these must be those students' kids. It's the .001% of the student body and I'd guess that many of the group are not even students of A&M
We knocked those the f down.
YES SIR! I remember that as well... and it seems things turned out pretty poorly for South Africa since it ended.
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In reply to Kenneth_2003 • 9:36a, 3/28/25
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The real problem is when leadership/faculty don't understand this basic statement;

I think the statement is too absolutist in that a subsidy of incompetence doesn't foreclose ever ending the subsidy and then accomplishing useful things again. But, the point is valid.
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In reply to KillerAg21 • 9:39a, 3/28/25
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KillerAg21 said:
Bragging that you knocked them down is a choice for sure. Never will understand the desire to demean others and think it's fun.
Making fun of idiots is always a good choice
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In reply to CanyonAg77 • 9:41a, 3/28/25
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CanyonAg77 said:
KillerAg21 said:
Bragging that you knocked them down is a choice for sure. Never will understand the desire to demean others and think it's fun.
Making fun of idiots is always a good choice
I'm good, not offended in the slightest. Wasn't really bragging either, but y'all already knew that.
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In reply to CanyonAg77 • 10:02a, 3/28/25
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You are saying the idiots in this scenario were those who were protesting Apartheid?
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In reply to Street Fighter • 10:04a, 3/28/25
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" We knocked those the f down." with a laughing face isn't bragging? Whatever you say bud
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In reply to KillerAg21 • 10:05a, 3/28/25
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KillerAg21 said:
You are saying the idiots in this scenario were those who were protesting Apartheid?
Yes, because they didn't understand the situation didn't know how to oppose a bad government, and threw in with communists and anarchists to burn South Africa to the ground, rather than fix the situation.
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