Uh yes, these things happen. Ignore the threats.

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Anonymous wrote:You/Your husband clearly have a chip on your shoulder about athletes, you may want to work on that.

Athletes live under more scrutiny than any other student on campus. All your H has to do is contact the coach and the athletic department. Your story does not really add up. Unless this is an Olympic level athlete or a future NBA player, nobody is going to do all that you posted to keep this student around.

Any other student there is really no recourse for behavior issues, but athletes are held to a much higher standard than any other student.

Not at this university. Some of the athletes are also strong students and work very hard to stay in top of academics and excel in sports.

The issue lies with the poor, lazy students who feel like they can half ass their course and still pass because they are athletes.

DH isn’t going to pass these students because it makes his life easier. That’s unethical. They have to put forth the effort like everyone else.

I use to work in elementary education and left because it’s such a joysuck no winners career.

+1

We really have no idea exactly what happened. Students are often advised by their counselors to go to the professor and see if they can make up work, do extra credit, have extra instruction, because they didn’t understand something.

That’s extremely normal. Also, athletes often miss certain days because they have to travel for their games.. it’s within reason to ask for extensions on things, class, notes, etc..

Overall, they are putting in way more effort than a normal student for the university.

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Anonymous wrote:You/Your husband clearly have a chip on your shoulder about athletes, you may want to work on that.

Athletes live under more scrutiny than any other student on campus. All your H has to do is contact the coach and the athletic department. Your story does not really add up. Unless this is an Olympic level athlete or a future NBA player, nobody is going to do all that you posted to keep this student around.

Any other student there is really no recourse for behavior issues, but athletes are held to a much higher standard than any other student.

Name another group of students that need to hold a full-time job at the university, do press for the university, for the university, has mandatory study hall, makes money for the university, and takes a full load of classes.

People who are upset that your kids didn’t get in and think some athlete got over them are incredibly jealous and really don’t understand how the whole thing works.

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Anonymous wrote:You/Your husband clearly have a chip on your shoulder about athletes, you may want to work on that.

Athletes live under more scrutiny than any other student on campus. All your H has to do is contact the coach and the athletic department. Your story does not really add up. Unless this is an Olympic level athlete or a future NBA player, nobody is going to do all that you posted to keep this student around.

Any other student there is really no recourse for behavior issues, but athletes are held to a much higher standard than any other student.

Not at this university. Some of the athletes are also strong students and work very hard to stay in top of academics and excel in sports.

The issue lies with the poor, lazy students who feel like they can half ass their course and still pass because they are athletes.

DH isn’t going to pass these students because it makes his life easier. That’s unethical. They have to put forth the effort like everyone else.

I use to work in elementary education and left because it’s such a joysuck no winners career.

+1

Anonymous wrote:You/Your husband clearly have a chip on your shoulder about athletes, you may want to work on that.

Athletes live under more scrutiny than any other student on campus. All your H has to do is contact the coach and the athletic department. Your story does not really add up. Unless this is an Olympic level athlete or a future NBA player, nobody is going to do all that you posted to keep this student around.

Any other student there is really no recourse for behavior issues, but athletes are held to a much higher standard than any other student.

Not at this university. Some of the athletes are also strong students and work very hard to stay in top of academics and excel in sports.

The issue lies with the poor, lazy students who feel like they can half ass their course and still pass because they are athletes.

DH isn’t going to pass these students because it makes his life easier. That’s unethical. They have to put forth the effort like everyone else.

I use to work in elementary education and left because it’s such a joysuck no winners career.

Is this athletic important to the school sport program, or just an idiot? That affects how much support you get.

If you don't get support, go to the media and the op/ed people for whichever political group hates your school.

You threaten my family and I'm killing you.

If he's not 26, his brain isn't fully developed yet. Right?

I'm sorry OP.

While I haven't had this happen to me, I am a female professor and I have been worried a few times about this, based on student behavior and gut feelings.

Hopefully the university responds accordingly.

Anonymous wrote:IT person here. Report it immediately so the university can save any digital evidence. Most likely, the student sent this from a computer on the university network, and they can trace it back to him (because you have to log in to the network). File a complaint with university IT as misuse. Then file with campus police.

Campus police can get the computer IP address used to send the message, and IT can correlate it to who had that IP address at that time on the university campus.

If any of that takes more than 90 seconds, they aren't going to bother. What OP described was not a "threat."

I had a student show up in my front lawn distraught over his failing grade. Gee, maybe he should have come to class more and done the work.

My graduate advisor backed me up and told the student he would have been far more strict than I was, etc, etc.

The student appearing on my front lawn felt very threatening.

A student called my spouse and said they would kill him. Spouse was t worried and spouse was not, in fact, murdered.

But these students are nuts.

The school needs to take responsibility instead of throwing the teacher into the flames.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, why has this not been brought before the University Court? Be aware that an accused athlete will bring any and all reinforcements (multiple character witnesses, including the coaches and liaisons, mainly) for their trial, but I have seen students literally get thrown out of school real time, on the spot, same day as trial, for this offense.

What is the university doing for you?

The past student ended up bring legally threatened and just left.

With this current student DH is sending everything to the Dean. We will probably file a report.

You will “probably file a report”? File a report!

+1. DP here. You need everything on file, OP, for your own benefit.

IT person here. Report it immediately so the university can save any digital evidence. Most likely, the student sent this from a computer on the university network, and they can trace it back to him (because you have to log in to the network). File a complaint with university IT as misuse. Then file with campus police.

Campus police can get the computer IP address used to send the message, and IT can correlate it to who had that IP address at that time on the university campus.

OP, I hate to say this, but as a former professor it might be best if your dh just gave these idiots the lowest score he can possibly give them and have them still technically just barely pass the course. Most of these types of people don't do well in life post sports.

It's best to concentrate on helping students who are actually there to learn, and not the athletes who are in college only to try to be one of the few who end up playing professional sports.

I know your dh will be horrified, but it's what women in academe have to do to stay safe as well.

Anonymous wrote:You/Your husband clearly have a chip on your shoulder about athletes, you may want to work on that.

Athletes live under more scrutiny than any other student on campus. All your H has to do is contact the coach and the athletic department. Your story does not really add up. Unless this is an Olympic level athlete or a future NBA player, nobody is going to do all that you posted to keep this student around.

Any other student there is really no recourse for behavior issues, but athletes are held to a much higher standard than any other student.