Dear Screamer McScreamerson,
I teach in the classroom next to/above/below yours. Everyday at 1PM my students and I listen to you scream at your class. From our classroom you don't sound like a loud talker. You sound like an angry man. My students are starting to get uncomfortable and, frankly, so am I.
People still look at my evaluations. I can't afford to fall because your yelling makes my students really uncomfortable. Some days I even have difficulty talking over you. These students are starting to clam up on me. The more you yell the quieter they get.
If my students ever do anything worthy of yelling. I'll do the yelling. Thank you very much.
Most Sincerely,
(perhaps not so) Crazy Math Professor
That's just Joe Screamo's class on the "WTF Boom."
ReplyDeletewww.youtube.com/watch?v=jlfmt91qVRo
Maybe they posted a really bad math joke on CM.
ReplyDeleteMost of CM will probably consider me crazy for this point, but the longer that I teach the more I appreciate all the benefits of those 8:00 a.m. classes that I choose to teach, from the parking options, the better students, and mostly the limited number of "colleagues" on campus at that time--screaming or otherwise!
ReplyDelete@CMP: I wonder what he would do if you all just ran to his door to see what the fuss is about every time he screams.
ReplyDelete@EMH: it was a good joke!
Or, better yet, contact the campus police (or whoever you're supposed to contact if you suspect that there is an "incident" in progress).
ReplyDeleteMore seriously, I'd get your students working on some sort of brief activity for which they don't need you (in-class writing, group work, sample problem, etc.), then find his room, knock, and ask him, politely, to keep it down. If he starts screaming at you instead of his students, *then* you call the police.
It's probably a bunch of drunken theatre majors.
ReplyDeleteI had a similar situation. I found the instructor and told him "wow, the acoustics are amazing in this building and we can hear everything you're saying and it's distracting."
Took care of it right away. I think my person is hard of hearing--could be the case with yours, too.
I liked the math joke, too, btw!
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ReplyDeleteWhat's the opposite of a snowflake? A volcano of rage?
ReplyDeleteI've had a similar experience with theater students in a classroom above mine, but they had all manner of activities, not regular shouting (except at the beginning of each class, which they did in chorus, so it was obvious it wasn't a proffie going ballistic).
ReplyDeleteI would love an elaborate description of the screaming. Is the instructor just speaking in a booming voice? Or already filled to bursting with college misery?
ReplyDeleteAM, it is more than loud talking. There is a definite cadence of anger. It's a bit like hearing one half of argument in the next apartment over. You can't really make out the whole conversation (any of the words) but you can tell that it's a fight.
ReplyDeleteCall the police.
ReplyDeleteOnce, my classroom was sandwiched by a screamy math teacher and hollering science teacher. Hollering science teacher had his door urinated on a few times. I think that maybe if he didn't holler so much, the boys would feel less urge to mark their scent. Screamy math teacher had it up to ^here with insolent teenagers. Through the muffled wall we heard, "Fuck you, Miss Beasley." Followed by screamy math teacher's voice, "No, FUCK YOU, Susie. And you too, Billy. And Ralphie, and Rickie, and MaryBeth. FUCK ALL OF YOU." Then she left, got in her car and drove away for the last time. There was mutiny in her room, which I let carry on, while I continued my lesson on case and adjective endings...
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