re: LSU professor fired for being a spiteful woman or female dog

Yeah he got arrested and it was all over the news.
A student accused him of peeping in 2006 and a fellow professor accused him of entering his home and groping him as he slept or something like a year later. I think all charges were eventually dropped.

I really enjoyed his classes at LSU and he was always a great guy to talk with at The Chimes or wherever I would see him. He never seemed creepy to me. He actually seemed to GAF about his students, which was rare.

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That may explain it but it doesn't excuse it. Your job is not a counseling session.

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The second statement about a "counseling session" is probably not what you meant to state.

As to the first statement, I would agree, it is not an excuse. I am simply stating that many really get caught up in an emotional whirlwind when a divorce cranks up. Second guessing, meeting with your supervisor and requesting some leave so you can get away from work and sort things out in your personal life is the way to go. When I went through mine, I met with my bosses and pulled back from clinical administrative and teaching duties for a bit. The only thing I kept going during that time was providing clinical supervision to my interns, and that seemed to be an area of solace for me as it forced me to interact with interns and patients, as well as keep up with the current literature. I know that not everyone can do that, but I was fortunate to be able to, and would do it again - if the same thing went down. That said, after a long marriage, I have no plans to go down that road again.

Big bump bro

I've had professors tell dirty jokes. I've had a student tell a dirty joke in my class (80's). No one had any issue.

They are adults. They'll live.

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Elle

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During the Great Depression, Governor Huey Long twisted arms to wangle federal Works Progress Administration money to build a world class academic institution

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I wonder where he ended up building it.

Holy crap. I thought I followed that case pretty closely but I had NO IDEA the kind of shite that came out in her disciplinary hearing. This chick was much, much crazier than I thought and needed to be fired with the quickness. The article starts pretty favorably for her but then lays out the facts. Wow.

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While meeting with her students' mentor teachers in nearby Iberville Parish, Buchanan apparently upset them when she criticized their teaching methods, as well as the job performance of Ed Cancienne, the parish superintendent, whom she'd referred to as "that crazy superintendent." Once Cancienne got wind of her comments—around the same time Ginn complained—he promised that he'd personally make sure Buchanan was arrested if she ever again set foot in one of his schools. The principal of an elementary school also banned Buchanan from the premises because, she wrote in a letter solicited by the investigators, the professor "berated" her student teachers and, in some cases, the work of the mentor teachers. "Very often, not only the students but my teachers would leave these meetings in tears," the principal wrote. There were accusations that Buchanan divulged to her class that she was sleeping with a married man, mentioned the kind of lingerie and sexual positions she preferred, and went on about her son's sex life (all of which she disputes).

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This isn't the worst of it but clearly is grounds for dismissal. The local media made it all sound like she got fired for just dropping some F bombs.

Isnt she a professor teaching students to become teachers for kindergartens?

If so then her language is pretty unprofessional; firing her is a little extreme however.

Well never mind sounds like she's bitter and went way too far on the deep end.