A certain incident....
Jul. 30th, 2004 12:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tcpipReaders of my last protected entry will realize that I have been having a bit of trouble with my CCNA instructors (not tutors, I have been duly informed) and access to module assesments.
On Wednesday one of the instructors, Graham Timmins, telephones and informs me - in the most abusive and threatening manner possible - that I had been expelled from the course and if I attempted to attend on Saturday that he would remove me. He also claimed that he "knew my type" and that I had done nothing in the past fifteen years except be a professional student (clearly he doesn't know how to do a websearch).
Now of course you can't prove anything by 'phone. So I requested that he send me an email of all this - at which point he hung up. Soon afterwards I received send email, minus the personal abuse and of course the threat to throw me out substantially modified ("you will be refused entry").
He also said for further discussion I should either 'phone him or see him personally. Neither is an option to me. I don't want to engage in a conversation with a man with that sort of 'phone manner, and the idea of seeing an erratic individual who wants me to go to a building which he has just threatened to throw me out of is unlikely.
I have submitted a formal complaint to RMIT on account of his actions.
On Wednesday one of the instructors, Graham Timmins, telephones and informs me - in the most abusive and threatening manner possible - that I had been expelled from the course and if I attempted to attend on Saturday that he would remove me. He also claimed that he "knew my type" and that I had done nothing in the past fifteen years except be a professional student (clearly he doesn't know how to do a websearch).
Now of course you can't prove anything by 'phone. So I requested that he send me an email of all this - at which point he hung up. Soon afterwards I received send email, minus the personal abuse and of course the threat to throw me out substantially modified ("you will be refused entry").
He also said for further discussion I should either 'phone him or see him personally. Neither is an option to me. I don't want to engage in a conversation with a man with that sort of 'phone manner, and the idea of seeing an erratic individual who wants me to go to a building which he has just threatened to throw me out of is unlikely.
I have submitted a formal complaint to RMIT on account of his actions.
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Date: 2004-07-29 10:56 pm (UTC)Whilst I have no doubt that all this things are true, he did claim that he checked with administration beforehand on whether he had the authority to expel me - and as a short course fee paying student apparently I am of the less rights variety of student.
It's now up to you to make sure your studies don't suffer.
Good advice, and I have already made new plans.
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Date: 2004-07-29 11:13 pm (UTC)& always verify
...never trust an adversary to explain the rules to you!
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Date: 2004-07-30 12:25 am (UTC)Assuming he is actually employed by the University, as opposed to some subsidiary entity, you would have the same entitlements in this regard as any other student - and all the appeal processes that are available if he did actually attempt to prevent you from attending class.
I don't know what RMIT policy is, but at my place he would not be within his rights in refusing to let you see how you went during a mid-term assessment.