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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,170 posts)
Sun Aug 29, 2021, 09:05 PM Aug 2021

88-year-old professor resigned in the middle of class because a student refused to wear mask

That's it, I'm retired'

An 88-year-old professor at the University of Georgia declared his retirement during a class when a student refused to wear her face mask properly.

Professor Irwin Bernstein told the University of Georgia's student newspaper, the Red & Black, that one of his students had shown up to his class on the second day of school without a mask. When a peer gave the student a mask to wear in class, she did not wear it across her face properly. She said she found it difficult to breathe with the mask over her nose, the most effective way to wear a face covering, according to health agencies like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Bernstein had asked her numerous times to wear the mask correctly, he told the Red & Black. The student ignored each request, he said.

"Whereas I had risked my life to defend my country while in the Air Force, I was not willing to risk my life to teach a class with an unmasked student during this Pandemic," Bernstein, who taught psychology, said.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/88-old-professor-georgia-resigned-183510351.html
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88-year-old professor resigned in the middle of class because a student refused to wear mask (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2021 OP
The unmitigated and complete selfishness of some people is truly amazing to behold dsc Aug 2021 #1
What you said. If I'd been a fellow student in that class,which is required to graduate in the major Hekate Aug 2021 #2
Shi... 2naSalit Aug 2021 #4
Meh. Suing costs money -- and I was a stone-broke student. nt Hekate Aug 2021 #6
Good point. 2naSalit Aug 2021 #7
An excoriating tongue-lashing is about shame more than guilt. Hekate Aug 2021 #8
This professor is Jonathon Capehart's hero LetMyPeopleVote Aug 2021 #3
And who can blame him for walking out - anti-maskers put his life in danger Rhiannon12866 Aug 2021 #5

dsc

(52,166 posts)
1. The unmitigated and complete selfishness of some people is truly amazing to behold
Sun Aug 29, 2021, 09:11 PM
Aug 2021

if I were in that class and thanks to her had to take an 8 am class I would be livid. I would be even more livid if I had to shuffle other classes thanks to this selfish ass.

Hekate

(90,775 posts)
2. What you said. If I'd been a fellow student in that class,which is required to graduate in the major
Sun Aug 29, 2021, 09:18 PM
Aug 2021

…. I’d have given her a tongue-lashing she’d never forget.

What an entitled snot-nosed brat!

Rhiannon12866

(205,866 posts)
5. And who can blame him for walking out - anti-maskers put his life in danger
Sun Aug 29, 2021, 10:04 PM
Aug 2021

Along with everyone else in the class.

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