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I'm sorry, Harmony2. Thank you for correcting my error.
I guess I'm a little taken aback by the vehemence here.
We all agree a 1% grade deduction is excessive; we all agree a syllabus can be put to better use.
I have yet to receive an answer to my question as to why it is polite--or even necessary--to interrupt someone who is speaking, just because a third-party has an involuntary response?
You won't get an answer because there isn't one, IMO. If the professor isn't interrupted by the sneeze itself, how are a couple of "bless you"s soooooooo much more disruptive? And if he/she IS interrupted by the sneeze, are a couple of "bless yous" just THAT much more disruptive? Or is the professor on a power trip that makes him/her think it's ok to grade students negatively for being polite? That's a rhetorical question, I don't expect an answer.
And I have been in classrooms more stressful than you'd think. Just because a person's opinion differs does not mean that person lacks the life experience you have. JMHO.
What life experience? Some of us have taught and all of us have been students, a sneeze and a bless you are not disruptive IMO.
Other infractions include sharpening your pencil.
Sharpening the utensil you use to take notes is a bigger problem than not taking the notes? And if your pencil breaks, another infraction is asking for handouts (i.e. can i borrow a pen?)
How does he expect students to function? LOL
I DO agree with turning off your cell phone and not arriving late. Those are obvious. I can't get over the sharpening pencils thing in a classroom though.
You won't get an answer because there isn't one, IMO. If the professor isn't interrupted by the sneeze itself, how are a couple of "bless you"s soooooooo much more disruptive? And if he/she IS interrupted by the sneeze, are a couple of "bless yous" just THAT much more disruptive? Or is the professor on a power trip that makes him/her think it's ok to grade students negatively for being polite? That's a rhetorical question, I don't expect an answer.
And I have been in classrooms more stressful than you'd think. Just because a person's opinion differs does not mean that person lacks the life experience you have. JMHO.
I fail to see the interruption. Most teachers wouldn't even notice, much less make a big deal out of it. In his own words he states " We are taught that it is polite to say ‘bless you’ when someone sneezes. However, if you say this while I am talking, it is NOT polite, it is very rude!”
What life experience? Some of us have taught and all of us have been students, a sneeze and a bless you are not disruptive IMO.
I don't know what your experiences are, but I know mine over hundreds of hours in college classrooms. Once students are allowed to chatter among themselves--even if only to say "Bless you"--you've lost them for a significant amount of time.
Again, I didn't deduct any grades, however my rule was "you can talk to me, but you can't talk to your neighbor while I'm speaking". Anything else was unmanageable, because I really couldn't follow 70 private conversations between students, whether they were responding to a sneeze or the material itself.
Has anyone, ever in their lives, been in a situation where blessyous after sneezes caused an actual interruption? If that IS the case, say in an area with a lot of mildew or ragweed and there is an awful lot of sneezing going on, and the class decides it's clever to keep saying Bless You like the Waltons say "good night" to everyone at the end of the day, it can be dealt with.
It's highly unlikely that this professor actually was experiencing disruption during class from "bless yous" but rather, it is a continuation of the tearing down of traditional Christian and middle class values in America, and students have sat there and taken it before out of fear. "God's Not Dead" is kind of a poorly done movie, a little trite and cliche, but the point is a good one. You don't have to sit there in your chair and parrot back what a professor tells you to if it goes against your belief system.