• March 9, 2014  Educating our 'Customers'  Teaching
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Illustration Careers  Brian Taylor  In the middle of a semester,
one of my students in my developmental English course came to my
office to tell me that he had to withdraw and that it was my
fault. He couldn't continue because my teaching style didn't
meet his needs.   When I began to tell him that I do all of
those things because I'm trying to teach academic
responsibility, he interrupted and said, "You're not letting me
be me."  As a faculty member, I have found myself on a number of
occasions dealing with students who are upset with me for not
letting them be them, or, as some say, for "disrespecting" them.
I'll admit that my definition of "respect" must be different
from theirs, because many times when I'm told I've been
disrespectful, it usually occurs when I don't give the lecture
notes to a student who missed two or more weeks of class, or
when I tell a student not to answer her cellpho