Teacher, I Want to Stand as Punishment!

The academic affairs staff also encountered a closed door.

The academic affairs office dispatched two administrative staff members to attend Wang Hao's class. Typically, student reports against teachers were meaningless as schools generally sided with the teachers. However, 'corporal punishment' was different. This report sounded odd.

Corporal punishment in universities

Corporal punishment is a sensitive issue in primary and secondary education, but it's rarely heard of in universities. Firstly, university teachers rarely discipline students, and secondly...

What if a university teacher is assaulted?

When it comes to sensitive issues, the academic affairs office still sends people to investigate. They learned the general situation and simply went through the motions.

As a result, when they reached the back door, they found a white paper taped to it with the words, "Back door closed, please use the front door for class!"

The two glanced at each other, reluctantly retraced their steps for half the building, and finally made their way to the front door.

Standing at the entrance, they listened for a while.

Wang Hao's resolute voice was clearly audible from outside, indicating that he was delivering a normal lecture inside.

"How about we just listen here for a while?"

"We're already here, let's just go in!"

The two staff members had differing opinions. In the end, they pushed open the door and entered, enduring the gaze of hundreds of students, and sat down at the back row.

Some students suddenly felt more confident. "Those are the academic affairs staff. Apparently, this teacher has been reported."

"Wasn't it last time when Zhao Dahe was made to stand and listen to the lecture? Other classes had the same thing, and it got reported. Someone came to observe."

"This teacher is probably in trouble..."

Wang Hao's class was interrupted for a moment, but he was not affected. He simply paused briefly and then resumed teaching.

Understanding one-dimensional non-homogeneous equations was relatively much easier, akin to learning a new formula in high school mathematics and then applying it.

Overall, there were only three steps--

Transformation.

Solution.

Linking to non-zero constants and analyzing the general solution.

Although the content was very simple, Wang Hao explained it very meticulously, taking into account students with poor foundations. During the explanation process, he even spent twenty minutes reviewing the process of solving 'homogeneous equations'.

Homogeneous equations, where 'constant terms are all zero', were originally fundamental concepts that must be mastered.

Since the course content was relatively simple, Wang Hao didn't need to stand at the lectern all the time. He was always in front of the classroom or even walking in the aisle.

At the same time, he held the student roster in his hand.

When he finished explaining a section, he might suddenly shout, "You, playing with your phone!"

"Take note!"

"You, get up! Do you know you're in class? Don't sleep on the desk, take note!"

"You, have you done the exercises? What are you doing? Practicing exercises is important in class. If you don't do them seriously, it's the same as not turning in homework!"

The students who were reprimanded felt quite frustrated, and some were even 'penalized' by having points deducted.

Suddenly.

They remembered the academic staff sitting at the back.

The academic staff also noticed that Wang Hao's class was strict. In university classrooms, it was normal for students to use their phones, but when they were caught in Wang Hao's class, they were directly penalized by having their participation points deducted.

This... makes sense too!

Playing with phones, sleeping, etc., could all be considered as not paying attention in class, so deducting participation points was reasonable.

They came to supervise whether there was corporal punishment, as long as there was no corporal punishment, everything else was fine.

Of course, there would be no corporal punishment.

Last week's class only had students stand up to listen to the lecture because 'formal course requirements were not implemented', so there was no need to record participation point deductions.

The students also realized it.

When a student who was sleeping in the corner was called out and asked to take note, he said with a disappointed expression, "Mr. Wang, could you please not deduct points? I'll go stand in the front, okay?"

Wang Hao firmly shook his head, "No. I've realized that corporal punishment of students is wrong, and making students stand is also a form of corporal punishment."

"Sheng Jialin, right?"

"Take note, one instance of sleeping in class."

"..."

Sheng Jialin looked helpless.

The two academic staff members gave a 'helpless' response. Regardless of whether they were biased towards the students, what could they do?

Wang Hao's reasoning was valid.

At this stage of the course, one could only say that the requirements were strict, but isn't it normal to have strict requirements?

Many senior professors have very strict requirements in class.

Wang Hao was reported only because he was young and had some research stains on him, which made some students 'uncomfortable'.

If it were an older professor who made students stand up to listen to the lecture, students wouldn't dare to report because they knew that reporting wouldn't make any difference.

Furthermore, they were really 'helpless'.

Wang Hao was just a temporary lecturer, signing a one-year contract with the school mainly to take over Mr. Li's courses. As long as there were no major mistakes, even if he just read from the textbook to get through the course, they wouldn't interfere.

Otherwise, what could they do?

Should they make every effort to arrange for other teachers to substitute?

To some extent, Wang Hao's 'not caring how many people fail, and probably won't stay next semester' was also effective for the academic affairs side.

If he's not going to stay next semester, how can he manage?

Even if there were cases of corporal punishment, as long as they weren't too serious, they could only remind the students kindly.

The barefoot person is not afraid of someone wearing shoes.

When the students realized that they couldn't rely on the academic staff, and at the same time, using phones, sleeping in class, or not paying attention might result in points deducted, and even not listening to the lecture might lead to being called out by the teacher for questioning, they suddenly became much more serious.

Even if they were sleepy, they forced themselves to stay awake.

Many students began to miss last week.

Last week, although sleeping in class or using phones might result in being called out to stand, at least there were no participation point deductions.

For most students, attending class was not about learning something useful for their future jobs. They didn't think that mastering "Partial Differential Equations" would be useful for their future careers.

They just wanted to pass the course and earn credits.

So, grades were very important.

Participation points accounted for forty percent of the total score. Having them deducted meant failing the course. Exams were relatively much simpler, usually consisting of exercises from class. At most, they might change the context or values a bit, and some teachers even provided a range of questions. With some last-minute preparation, they could pass easily.

Some students couldn't help but complain, "Blame it on the physics majors. Just because they were made to stand, they posted something on the forum and reported the teacher to the academic affairs!"

"It must be the physics majors!"

"If it weren't for them, my participation points wouldn't have been deducted! If I fail this course, damn it..."

...

The latter part of the class went very smoothly.

Although the students in the classroom didn't necessarily all pay attention, at least it didn't seem like anyone wasn't listening.

Class ended.

After assigning two homework problems, Wang Hao announced the end of class and then answered students' questions.

After dealing with the students, he wanted to say a few words to the academic staff, but found that they had already left.

"They've left, that's fine too!"

"Teachers and academic staff are naturally at odds!"

Wang Hao simply checked the system and was stunned by the numbers displayed by the tasks--

[Task One]

[Inspiration Points +9, Inspiration Points: 40.]

[Task Two]

[Inspiration Points +221, Inspiration Points: 243.]