do you ever just wanna yell..."Would you SHUT UP already???"

GingerSue · Aug 30, 2008

In many courses, students are expected to participate in discussions - and their participation is then calculated into their final grade (10% or 20% or more of their final grade) - so this student might be speaking a lot because of this expectation.

As for the pen tapping - I don't know - it reminds me of a class in the past where one student noisely ate an apple so loud, while the teacher was trying to lecture to a small group of about 35 people (this makes me laugh now).

CCat · Aug 30, 2008

I can see both sides of this situation. On one hand, every student has the right to ask questions but on the other, there are those who constantly asks questions and then go on to argue with the teacher thereby wasting other students' time.

There was this girl a few terms back who was exactly like that. No one had a problem with her asking questions at first or arguing with the instructor but she'd do it /all the time/ and it disrupted the class a lot more than it was useful to her or anyone else. Granted the instructor should've been better about speaking with her and answering her questions after class but she (the student) had no consideration for everyone else who got the material and just wanted to move on. So it /can/ get annoying. I respect other students' rights but they also have to respect mine.

AirforceRN, RN · Aug 30, 2008

I'm with you Coltsgrl...I'm an incredibly patient person and as tolerant as the next guy but there are times...I wanted to assign a "question buddy" to some people...before they were allowed to raise their hand they had to pass the question through another "screener" first.

I agree, there are no stupid questions and students should never be discouraged from asking questions (which is why nobody ever speaks to these people) but when you are raising your hand to:

a)have the instructor repeat information because you weren't paying attention

b) tell the class that your Aunt once had genital herpes, which is close to chicken pox, which is what the class is discussing in the first place.

or

c) Ask a question, the answer to which is so obvious that we all know the answer already but you, the question asker, assume we are not intelligent enough to know this information and are to shy to ask about it ourselves so you ask it for us.

...it makes me wonder.

I know that not everyone feels this way (as is evidenced above) and that's cool. We are ALL entitled to our opinions...and are allowed to voice them on this board, in theory, to encourage discussion.

HeartsOpenWide, RN · Aug 30, 2008

I know what you mean...there is one in every bunch; there is a student in my class that has a comment or story for nearly everything the teacher says. Teachers are finally catching on and saying things subtly to her (like "how is that related?" or they just ask if they could please continue with the lecture and "discuss that later"). I am sure the person was trying to be nice when they said, "there is no stupid question" but most of the questions this person asks are ones because she was not paying attention and is asking something the teacher just told the class 5mins ago, or something we should all know by now...ect. I just use her questions as a opportunity to practice patience...because we are all going to need it when we are nurses in the real world...dealing with all kinds of people...and questions.

RNMom2010 · Aug 30, 2008

What irritates me most is when a student takes so long telling her story that the whole lecture gets off topic, and it happens numerous times during the lecture. If it is on topic I am more than interested to hear people's experiences as we can add questions to them, or the instructor can add to them.

shrimpchips, LPN · Aug 30, 2008

I don't have problems with students participating in discussions or asking questions because we're supposed to an all of my instructors strongly encourage us to ask questions and that there is no such thing as a "stupid question." What bothers me are the students who think that they know everything. One of my classmates kept telling me exactly what to do when taking a BP reading and it something totally different from what our instructor told us. Excuse me but you're NOT my nursing instructor so why are you telling me what to do? :banghead:

Thank goodness she isn't my partner in any of my classes. She would constantly tell me that I'm doing things wrong! :argue:

Jarnaes · Aug 30, 2008

Coltsgrl, you rock! We would have gotten along beautifully when I was in school...lol

Good luck to you, and if you do strangle one of those annoying ones, I'm with you girl. I'll start the fund raiser for bail money.

loricatus · Aug 30, 2008

When I was in school I resolved that type of behavior by only showing up for necessary classes and for tests. My attendance was pitiful; but, my grades were top of the class, so the school couldn't say much. However, one one class, I was downgraded from an A (based on grades) to a B+ because of poor attendance. I just told everyone that I can't learn in the type of environement they had and was had a solitary learning style. For the few classes that had attendance policies, I sat in the back and studied or did homework.

Wait to you finish school and enter the wonderful world of nursing to really see rude, offensive and gang type of behavior.

nerdtonurse?, BSN, RN · Aug 30, 2008

If the person really doesn't understand a concept, that's one thing, or if they just can't get their head around something, that's fine. Who hasn't looked at something in their textbook and wondered, "huh?" only to have someone explain it from a different angle and you go, "well, DUH...."

Having said that...oh, yes there are dumb questions, stupid questions, and students that the entire class would vote to muzzle. In LPN school, we had a woman who'd had 6 kids before she was 20 (no kidding -- started when she was 12) and everything was the "All About Me" show -- childbirth, she knew it all, every disease we studied she'd either had it or one of her kids had had it, or one of their daddies had had it, and she was sure you could get pregnant from a toilet seat, and there was no such thing as mental illness because someone on Montel said there wasn't, and (pulling up her shirt and showing her goods to all in the class) was it normal to have breasts that large, and it just went on, and on, and on. We were always late getting out, and the teachers would often be shuffling their notes, trying to regain their train of thought. This one student was really impairing the learning of everybody else in class. One of the other students finally told her to shut up so the rest of us could hear the teacher, and when Little Miss "It's all about me" complained, the teacher told her from that point on to write down her questions and they would go over them after class.

And, no, she didn't make it thru 1st semester. Thank God.

WickedRedRN, BSN, RN · Aug 30, 2008

I feel your pain. When I was in LPN classes, we had a student who constantly had to launch into a conversation about her aunt's brothers' sister who one time had every single disease we just happened to be talking about that day. By the last semester, I was seriously ready to off myself if I had to listen to it once more!

The kicker was the day she was talking about one of her sisters who used "abortions as her birth control". I really had had it and I said...."I am really certain your sister does NOT appreciate you telling her personal private medical business to a room full of 40 people she does not know!"

I got a lot of "way to go" comments from my other classmates! :)

craziechiq, BSN, RN · Aug 31, 2008

Sorry one of my biggest pet peeves is to read an argument with major grammatical and spelling errors. To capitalize a point and spell it wrong makes the point less important. My :twocents: .

Also, everyone has a person in class that can just hit a certain nerve. It is nothing to be ashamed of and that does not make you a bad person. The person who started the thread just wanted to vent some frustration. She was not being mean in any way. Some people just need to chill and not be so freaking sensitive.