Students Complained About Ala. Professor Charged in Shooting

Submitted by anthony on Wed, 2010-02-17 19:16

Story here. Excerpt:

'HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Students said they signed a petition and complained to no avail about the classroom conduct of a professor accused of killing three colleagues and wounding three others in a shooting rampage at a faculty meeting.

The students upset with biology professor Amy Bishop told The Associated Press they went to administrators at the University of Alabama in Huntsville at least three times a year ago, complaining that she was ineffective in the classroom and had odd, unsettling ways.
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"The whole incident was just stupid," Bishop's husband, James Anderson, said Wednesday.

Asked if he was referring to his wife's actions, he said: "Everything."

"It was way overblown," he said. "Someone trying to make something out of nothing."

He also defended his wife's teaching, saying the "vast majority" of students were happy with her. He said his wife taught the "cut course" for nursing students, who would either go on toward a degree or quit the program based on how they did in her class.'

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Those students should be thankful she didn't blow them away. I wonder, "Did she knew students complained? Did she know who complained?"

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Submitted by MR on Wed, 2010-02-17 23:51

the only reason she was stopped was her gun jammed. She was not finished killing. She likely would have started killing students after she was finished with her peers in the meeting had her weapon not failed her. The rest of the staff who were in that meeting are only alive because the gun jammed not because of her mercy, compassion or, lack of desire to kill them.

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Submitted by Paragon on Thu, 2010-02-18 18:41

manonthestreet

This story about the teaching would seem to be trivial in the extreme. It kind of just isn't taking what really happened seriously at all.

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Submitted by trotter on Sat, 2010-02-20 14:12