Professor seeks damages for having been suspended

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A Ryukyu University professor suspended two years ago for charging fines to late arriving students now wants the school to pay for its inappropriate actions. Minoru Nagai had been collecting ¥100 coins from students who came late to class, an action university officials decided improper.

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[Mad Hatter]

If they went back into the class some how... I think that it would be cool then.

[Tempestuous]

I think that is a decent idea, to "fine" tardy students! Especially if he took the collection gathered and put it toward some class event/function/activity thing.

[TheNoNamedOne]

I know several adults now who said they were once students of this professor several years ago. They said he was a little eccentric but quite popular. They all had nothing but good things to say about him and looked at the tardy fine as no biggie, and respected that he was strict.

I can't recall clearly, but I do remember them saying the money was donated to something or used for somethinig for the classes -- not going into his pocket.

I hope he wins his case.

[dk]

The university says the professor is a bit of a troublemaker.
This part cracks me up. Because it's such a typical thing for them to say.

He was a troublemaker.

Which means, basically, that he did things different than the norm.

[Tempestuous]

You know too often kids choose to be tardy "because it's no big deal" or nothing is going to come of it. He is really teaching a good lesson that tardiness costs you in the real world.

[TheNoNamedOne]

Yeah, that is funny isn't it.

The Marines have a slightly different way of putting it when you do something or question something slightly. You become labled as having an attitude problem.

How dare you Lcpl suggest we use that fork lift over there to load all that concertina and stakes on this truck and finish within 5 mins when we got 50 good men all just sitting on their rucksacks doing nothing and can give them 30 mins of something to do. You are lazy and have an attitude problem. Now, get in line and get with the program like everyone else. Now drop the attitude problem.

lol. Cracks me up. Poor professor getting treated like a Lcpl for doing something a tad different.

[dk]

I'm glad I don't have bosses like this. That's all I can really say about this topic.

[Tempestuous]

It really seems ridiculous! Kind of makes me think of how the government typically responds to issues- they know it is going on (would think the school knew/heard about it) but don't make a deal of it until news gets out or one person gets upset about it and then suddenly they take action to try and squelch the "fire"

[TheNoNamedOne]

Yes, Temp. And the fact is, this professor had been doing this for YEARS. Surely it had always been known.