Just a few corrections

RGM Note:
He's not in the
hall of fame
for nothing.

I read as much of the ProfHacker article as I could. It's not that bad, if you like to see that sort of thing on your Internet. Of course there's room for that version, which tries to be helpful and useful and not mean spirited and bullshit like that, and mine, with judicious use of Track Changes.

As higher education professionals people who never saw the benefits of leaving college, we have conversations with our dwindling number of friends and colleagues about our students, mightily laughing in the face of FERPA. We’ve all done it. [Editor's Note: I don't understand why sexual experience is relevant here.] The conversations can include how engaged students are with course material, how interesting classes can be when students participate, or maybe we’ve passed along a particularly funny exchange with students. That is, if you want a short conversation. We love what we do, and we want to share that joymisery. But then there are the other experiences, experiences we don’t readily share because we don’t quite know how to handle themwant to blow our cover when we post the stories at College Misery. Or, we don’t share them because we don’t want our colleagues and friends to know that we can’t handle the situationswhy we drink. That’s what ProfHacker’s “Disruptive Student Behavior” is all about: it gives us a space to discuss—calmly, respectfully, and sometimes anonymously—how to handle difficult situations with studentsme a way to generate a column each week without a lot of effort since readers provide most of the useful responses.

This series has a few caveats because I know you people are a bunch of smarty pants professors who can't let a statement pass without nitpicking it to death:

• First: In this series, we will present a few scenarios, and it’s clear that how we handle these scenarios depends upon the discipline, the class size, and the culture of an institution. We try to include as many of these variables as we can because the word "variable" makes the article sound really sciency, while understanding that we can’t account for every situational difference (that's something that a humanities person would say). What we are discussing here are behaviors that—no matter the discipline or the institutional culture—impede learning for other studentskeep us refilling that hip flask every morning before work.
  
• Second: ProfHacker is not a place to complain about students in any mean-spirited sort of way. That is not what this series of posts attemptsnot as awesome as College Misery. Instead, we want to focus on what we can do, positively and professionally, to handle the sometimes-difficult situations we can have with students because there's a little bit of our soul left that higher education hasn't crushed yet (and maybe someday we'll get health insurance!).
  
• Third, please don’t focus solely on the examples. These are merely examples that I chose to use. I could have chosen to use others. The examples are only important in that they are examples of entitled behavior from students. [Editor's Note: Are you playing a drinking game involving the number of times you write the word "example"?] [Author's Note: Drink up, Ed!]

OK, you get the idea. I could go on but it might violate some copyright law, make the original author jealous of my revisions and bore me to tears adding all these stinkin' HTML tags to change the fonts. My God, the things I do to entertain you people.

Since I'm copying everybody else, let me plagiarize our own Archie and say, "And here's the fucking link."

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To readers subjects under my sway: I did not add the flattering unbelievably flattering and not based on anything other than maybe Mrs. Ben’s fantasy life picture and caption (thanks RGM Master and Lord). I had planned to mock the cat picture kill one of Katie from Kalamazoo’s cats and take a picture of it, but my graphics kept turning out good hand kept slipping off the knife and now I need a bandage for my boo-boo.