It seems Texas A&M-Galveston Professor Irwin Horwitz had quite a rough semester. So rough, in fact, that he ended up failing everyone in his Strategic Management class.
In an email to students, Horwitz wrote that the class “proved to be incompetent and lack the maturity level to enter the workforce,” and “cited examples of students cheating, telling him to ‘chill out,’ and inappropriate conduct.”
He added that “students spread untrue rumors about him online” and eventually he worried for his personal safety — to the point that he felt he needed police protection.
After what he calls a semester of disrespect, backstabbing, lying, and cheating, Horwitz had all he could take.
“It became apparent that they couldn’t do some of the most simple and basic things they should have been able to do,” said Horwitz.
“I was dealing with cheating, dealing with individuals swearing at me both in and out of class, it got to the point that the school had to put security guards at that class and another class,” said Horowitz.
KPRC spoke with some students who say they were shocked to get the email. John Shaw is a senior and worried this would mess up the job he has lined up when he graduates in May.
“Just ridiculous, I had never had a problem in the class. I thought I had done pretty well, done pretty well on the first test and then I get an email saying I am going to get an F in the class, it was overwhelming,” Shaw said.
Horwitz said in the 20 years he has been a professor, he has never dealt with a class as disgraceful as this one.
“This class is unique. I have never failed a class, it is very rare that I fail students, sometimes learning incorporates tough love,” says Horwitz.
But the school isn’t backing up the professor.
“None of them have failed until the end of the class, meaning the only reason a student would fail because he or she has not performed the expectations for that particular class,” [Vice President of Academic Affairs Dr. Patrick] Louchouran said.
The head of the department will take over Horwitz’s teaching duties for the remainder of the semester.
h/t to University Diaries.
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