Snowflake lecturer

Stuff reports:

A Victoria University of Wellington lecturer has retracted an emotionally charged email in which he claimed students had “lied” and “cheated” after many failed to watch his queer criminology lecture online.

Lecturer Ti Lamusse told his Criminology 316 students they had shown “profound academic dishonesty and demonstrated disrespect for your teaching staff and the people whose lives you could have learned about if you had bothered to do so”.

The line, “I am ashamed of you as a cohort of students,” was formatted in bold.

Lamusse said he was “in tears” after seeing fewer than a third of his students had watched the lecture on Monday, September 12, which took him “three weeks to prepare”. Lamusse told his students that if he had acted in the same way, he would be deeply ashamed of himself, and his whānau would be ashamed of him.

He broke down in tears because not all his students watched one of his lectures? My God.

“I also worry what it means to graduate with a degree in criminology, if you’re able to lie and cheat your way into passing. The thought of many of you using your degree to find work at the NZ Police, Ministry of Justice or Department of Corrections fills me with dread.

“If you don’t engage, in even a basic way, with your course content, I am deeply concerned for the social harm you may cause,” the criminological theory lecturer said.

He then called his entire class liars and cheaters and said that the thought of them finding jobs was dreadful and they are so bad, they will cause harm.

How does he still have a job? The answer is easy,

Lecturer Lamusse is a hard left activist (he has written on how to grow the “revolutionary left”). This gives him immunity from consequences. If he was not, and identified as being on the right and send such an e-mail to an entire class, he would be suspended on the spot and out within days.

“Ti also uploads 70-plus PowerPoint slides for each lecture, and then in the lectures recites the PowerPoint slides word-for-word. Because of this, many students, including me, do not feel the need to watch the lectures, as they can get the same information from reading the PowerPoint slides,” the complainant explained.

Translation: The students don’t listen to the lectures because they are as boring as fuck, as they just recite a series of slides.

A request to interview Lamusse on September 15 was refused by the university. However, in a statement, the university said it was “aware” of the email.

“The university does not condone the approach taken by this lecturer, which is not in keeping with our institution’s values of respect, responsibility, fairness, integrity, and empathy.

“Resolution processes are under way with this staff member and the students involved,” the statement said.

This will be a wet bus ticket.

Personally I don’t think he should lose his job for being a snowflake and having a meltdown at his students. People make mistakes. But the hypocrisy is what gets me. So many others have been forced out of jobs for far less, such as writing a letter defending science!