Professor gives entire class an F. . .and then quits

Daily Beast - A professor at Texas A&M University at Galveston just jumped ship -- but not before failing the entire class for what he calls a pattern of cheating, backstabbing and all-around bad behavior.

In a drama fit for an after-school special, Irwin B. Horwitz sent a withering e-mail to the 30 students in his strategic management class to announce he was giving each student an “F,” before walking out and never coming back.

"Since teaching this course, I have caught and seen cheating, been told to 'chill out,' 'get out of my space,' 'go back and teach,' [been] called a 'fucking moron' to my face,” Horwitz wrote in the missive obtained last week by Inside Higher Ed.

The disgruntled egghead continued to unfurl a litany of offenses including: students cheated by signing in for classmates, didn’t show up when they claimed they did, and spread “hurtful and untrue rumors about myself and others” online.

“None of you ... given the behavior in this class, deserve to pass,” Horwitz, 53, wrote in the dispatch.

“I am frankly and completely disgusted,” he added. “You all lack the honor and maturity to live up to the standards that Texas A&M holds, and the competence and/or desire to do the quality work necessary to pass the course.”

Horwitz, who only joined the university last year, didn’t stop there. He also sent an e-mail to school administrators, telling them the unruly pupils are “your problem now.”

It’s unclear how an entire class brought him to the brink, but Horwitz summed it up for a local TV station: “Enough was enough.”

"Yesterday I reached the breaking point," Horwitz told Houston’s KPRC. "It became apparent that they couldn't do some of the most simple and basic things they should have been able to do.”

Horwitz, who has 20 years of teaching experience, said the raucous behavior was so severe that he requested police protection during lectures at the Department of Maritime Administration, according to KPRC.

"I was dealing with cheating, dealing with individuals swearing at me both in and out of class, it got to the point that the school had to put security guards at that class and another class," he said.

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