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In reply to the discussion: Professor Bans Student for Rape Views [View all]alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)I've never seen an unsupervised discussion section. They are like "labs" to the the larger lecture hall classes in the sciences. They usually will have at least a TA that meets with the section. In a place like Reed, it seems that the professor for the larger lecture actually met with all the discussion/conference sections - that's pretty impressive on its own.
If it rises to the level where the professor felt the need to "ban" the student from the class, it should have been submitted to the dean of students or equivalent as a behavioral issue. If it wasn't a clear-cut behavior issue that must be dealt with outside of normal class processes, the professor shouldn't have unilaterally "banned" the student. He certainly should not have sent the student an email describing his own decision to ban the student. Rather, he should have reported the student's behavior to some other (process-defined) body (like a Dean of Students office) and let them handle it.