‘Gutfeld!’ talks about the NYU teacher fired over class being too hard

Greg Gutfeld and guests discuss how NYU students got their organic chem teacher fired because his class was too difficult on ‘Gutfeld!’

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[gregpek]

Mind you wouldn't it be nice if 100 people could sign a petition and then we get rid of Biden or Trudeau?

[jojospeechy]

UNBELIEVABLE!! Organic chemistry is hard. It's supposed to. Shame on those entitled students and NYU for not standing up for this professor.

[kitsunelee]

Can we have the names of the students who signed this petition so the public will know who not to hire.

[stevelawrence]

Someone once pointed out that 100 years ago, French and Latin were taught in high school.
Now, they're teaching remedial English is being taught in college.
The dumbing down process is nearly complete.

[JC-ilor]

Had organic chem in advanced placement in high school. Taught by a genius, Mr. Roberts, who had worked at Oak Ridge in Tennessee. Hardest class ever, and I barely passed. That was on me, not him.
These whiners who got their professor fired hurt themselves as well as the students who come after. One day they will need the discipline and data they thought was too hard. I only hope no one dies because of their stupidity.
Another case of children whose parents and educators failed to impose reality, control, and life lessons....

[richardtreat]

We need more teachers like this. You have to WORK for everything in life.

[euux-jtgy]

Don’t ever hire an NYU graduate. This is indicative of the school.

[TheJojoaruba]

Organic Chemistry was an incredible course of discipline in college. We all knew that going in and we busted our butts to get an “A” But it wasn’t as hard as Physical Chemistry. No teachers got fired. Lots of students got fired.

[caliscribe]

1977 UCLA organic chemistry class was a nightmare. I worked my butt off and got a B-. I, however, did not blame the professor. It was though the end of my pre-med major.

[JB-ymup]

You can't get better results by lowering standards.

[kevinwetsch]

The students are in for a really rude awakening when they have to face reality. You can't fire reality.

[denniskoppo]

Just another example of how the huge tuitions paid by college students has put them in charge of the place.

[patpozzuto]

Wow, never thought I would live long enough to see the day when a Medical degree from NYU would have the same value as a sheet of toilet paper... Congratulations to the genius at NYU!

[mx]

It's a wonder our education system is in the dumpster

[ursulaglissmann]

80 of 300 students signed the petition. I thought majority rules.

[SaravanjaSteele]

This happened in one of my classes twenty years ago. It was a basic Astronomy class. The professor is brilliant. A friend of mine and I ate this class up. It was challenging, but he gave you all the tools necessary to do well if you did the work. It was a special class for supposedly superior minds with extra talent, and every student except for my friend and I, went to complain that he was making it too hard. I was so pissed off that I went to the administration in defense of him. They didn't fire him, but they did attempt to get him to dumb down the class a little. He declined. The man worked on the Cassini mission as a physicist for crying out loud! I'd rather get a C in a class that was too challenging than an easy A. I did get an A in this class btw. I have to toot my own horn a little, because I'm one of those humanities majors and this was a science class. It was quite satisfying doing the work and learning this subject. We actually started the class with people that thought we have more than one moon orbiting Earth. And they were supposed to be the cream of the crop. And this was twenty years ago. Sorry to see it's gotten worse.

[mikeakey]

Newest question to weed out the bad ones: Did you attend NYU, doctor?

[dr.intensivecare]

I would have been thrilled to be taught by the professor who wrote the book I was studying.

[elliottalderson]

Our generation just hung our heads in shame ...

[AmishMan]

This happened at my high school 15 years ago…our orchestra teacher was world class. He helped compose music for Lord of the Rings among countless incredible accomplishments. He was stern, took his job seriously, and under his leadership we won the gold in what is the equivalent to States Championship. But he expected the students to take orchestra seriously, and most of us did. Most of us had a deep respect for him. But a handful of kids who just joined orchestra to goof off complained that he was too strict and difficult. The school held a town meeting where dozens of parents and students showed up begging the school not to fire him. Yet the 3 or 4 parents who were complaining beat out the many more who opposed them. They fired the greatest orchestra teacher in all of NYS, and ever since their strings program has been a joke. Of course, our teacher went on to do great things, conducting the Buffalo Philharmonic, but it was a sad, sad time.