College instructor placed on leave after viral video showing confrontation with hearing impaired stu

A tenured instructor at Oxnard College, identified by students as Michael Abram, was placed on administrative leave after a confrontation with a student Thursday.

[@Roostars]

Paid leave? WTF!?!?

[@staceygantt]

Ridiculous. Significantly disappointed.🙀

[@worldtravelerusa5066]

That troll is a tenure. How ridiculous.

[@johnmagallanes7858]

He is not going to be fired. It's going to be another cover-up like with what they did with me and I provided audio recordings.

[@kalvin187douglas]

Really?

[@ev-0163]

Paid leave? Just fire the dude without any benefits

[@johnmagallanes7858]

They can't because he knows information about others doing abusive things and if they fire him he can sue for discrimination for unfair job practices. They're in a catch 22. They're damned if they do and damned if they don't.

[@lettymchavez8985]

The worst thing about this is that he is not the only teacher with this behavior in this school, in the area of ​​dental assistants one of the teachers is the same or worse, to the extent that some students have decided better to leave the class

[@avrilcode9945]

Almost all my teachers were like that at my University.

[@johnmagallanes7858]

Letty this is common behavior at Oxnard College. I was harassed really bad there. I am disabled and I provided evidence against Leo Orange and Judy Mcarthur and the district covered it up even though I provided audio recordings proving the harassment and they knowingly let Leo Orange commit perjury on a state document.

[@alexanderrivera293]

Might as well give that girl a refund for that class

[@mercyreign969]

Paid? What a disgrace. Whoever made that choice needs to be fired also. Without pay.

[@JoslynSky]

He got verbally info she couldn’t hear yet he still yelled at her f

[@johnmagallanes7858]

This happened to me in the Spring of 2011. Leo Orange and Judy Mcarthur, harassed me so bad and when I complained the district covered it up even after I provided audio recordings of the abuse. This college needs to be investigated by the US DEPT OF EDUCATION. They are not going to fire that Professor because if they do he can claim discrimination because of what happened to me and to other students he knows about.

[@kalvin187douglas]

Wow

[@JoslynSky]

Fire him Don’t give him paid leave

[@moondragon05]

tony ferguson's also from oxnard, this actually makes a lot of sense now

[@OneOnlyMex]

Get help your sick like that teacher.

[@JoslynSky]

What about the justification of him discrediting her disability ? Like it’s a joke or some shit that shouldn’t be taken seriously or considered

[@tjcougarfootball1]

This professor is a cold coward.

[@nikkid8519]

Paid leave? Oh you mean vacation???

[@doglover-xg1kh]

was gonna apply to that school but not now if there is one shit hole there must be more why would any one go to this school to get treated like that.

[@lissettelovesbats1770]

This isn't new a lot of teachers definitely not all but an unfortunate amount of teachers completely abused their authority. I get that kids are hard to manage sometimes but nobody is forcing you to sit there in a profession that you don't like. These poor students all the way from elementary school to college or having to sit there and deal with this type of disrespect for teachers all the time and unfortunately unless you can prove it they just get away with it every single time

[@benjaminperez2326]

As a mother of an autistic blind and developmentally disabled son, people’s rudeness never surprises me anymore. We just ignore it and give it to God.

[@holyhex6520]

He was taking her not paying attention personally. He should have just let it go, these are not children and if they want to waste their borrowed money/parents' money, it is none of his business.

[@ringoinah]

She was paying attention though! She was just looking to her (perhaps sign language) interpreter to see what he said.

[@holyhex6520]

@@ringoinah Regardless if she was/wasn't paying attention, it is none of his business was my point.

[@LesbianQueen97]

@@holyhex6520 he would get paid either way and clearly he is ignorant asf and over reacted without knowing what she was dealing with. If he was a good teacher with brains he would have asked to talk to her 1 on 1 to figure out what was wrong

[@videos4mydad]

People don't have to wait for "higher ups" to take action. If I were any one of his students, I would have IMMEDIATELY asked to drop his course. If you ARE one of his students currently, ask to DROP his class.

[@Couldnt_choose_a_handle]

The college president is saying there is no justification to his action but yet that asshole is on paid leave. You basically gave him a vacation for what he did.

[@STARDOG64]

This guy needs a good old ass whoopin. I'm hard of hearing and I understand how it feels when you try so hard to focus on something and you just cant hear what people are saying even though they may be speaking loud and clearly. I have to say "what", "could you repeat that", "one more time, sorry", and other things like that every single time I have a conversation with someone.

[@billabong9215]

They put em on paid leave while an investigation is held, to fire him outright would upset due process. He will be fired , no doubt.

[@onionbubs386]

They ended up keeping him as a professor 😒

[@bullylowenthal2683]

Yet if a professor was a conservative he would be fired.

[@onionbubs386]

@@bullylowenthal2683 that professor *is* conservative, dipshit. Take your victim complex somewhere else.

[@frankthetank520]

The "professer" looks like shes just mad she got HORRIBLE plastic surgery

[@maxmbadi7492]

Huh? What are you even talking about?

[@slaymil]

that's a guy

[@xen2125]

What?

[@doglover-xg1kh]

@@slaymil no it a she

[@jennyhateseverything]

LMAO