What wise should they do? Write e-mail like a bunch of cave dwellers?
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fluckx@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Why are people texting their physics teacher?
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
Or, even worse, PHONE CALLS?! 😬
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
What kind of savage would do that?
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
My parents and other boomers 🤷
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
✋ we don’t do that here (earth)
FozzyOsbourne@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Go up and talk to them? Why would a child even have a teacher’s phone number?
Or is OP using “teacher” to mean “university lecturer”?
StaticFalconar@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Yell me you are old and out of touch with modern schools without telling me you are old and out of touch with modern schools.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
“oops I just sent a dick pic gallery to the whole faculty in the 800 building 😳 I hope they won’t call me in for a group meeting tonight to reprimand me… unless… 👉👈”
yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
Modern meaning American?
All communication with professors has to be official over here to prevent abuse. Phone messages don’t leave a trail that can be investigated, emails do.
Plus I’m pretty sure you could insist on getting a phone number from your university if you didn’t want to share yours with them or if you didn’t even have one, for some reason. That would just lead to an enormous hassle for the university over here, it’s easier to just give every student an email address.
figjam@midwest.social 5 weeks ago
Phone messages don’t leave a trail that can be investigated
Wat?🤡🤡🤡
yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
Well, at least not in the same way as email with a centralized server.
Unlike email, most modern messaging services are end-to-end encrypted. If an abusive professor manages to manipulate their victim into deleting the messages (and does so as well) it’s nigh impossible to verify accusations. With email, the university’s email server keeps them stored and visible.
Unencrypted messaging poses severe privavy risks since - you know - the messaging service can read every single message.
Usually I am all for encryption, though for official communication I don’t think it’s the best idea. It does have the minor drawback that particularly sensitive information isn’t sent (such as exam scores) but you can just check them on the university’s web portal anyways.
Evotech@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Group Whatsapp i imagine
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 weeks ago
Because they don’t know enough physics to send a message via quantum entanglement. That’s actually what they were texting them about.
vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
or they know enough physics to know that quantum entanglement is physically impossible to use to send information.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Because the texting generation is old enough to have PhDs and thus old enough to be teachers.
Emerald@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Even my professor in his 50s says we can text him if we are going to be absent from class. Like hell nah man I’m gonna email you.