University of Houston Faculty Suggest Professors 'Not Go There' Because of Campus Carry Law

[struggle4progress]

43. What classroom experience do you have?

Campuses generally rank as some of the safest environments, but they are also stressful environments, and there are predictable tense moments

A small fraction of students regularly lose control upon earning a low score on an assignment or test, for example

And anyone who teaches for a long time encounters a large number of students, so the weird cases add up

In decades of teaching, I've seen and heard all kinds of things: suicide notes on finals, students or their friends threatening instructors, students claiming to be in danger from nameless faceless people ...

I'd prefer not to hand back tests to armed students. I'd prefer not to have armed suicidal students in my classroom. I'd prefer students who believe somebody or other is endangering them not to come armed to my class and nervously await the appearance of their real or imaginary threat