A special unique snowflake couldn’t keep up with the assignments and it is the teachers fault, not his.
Via GazetteXtra
A UW-Whitewater professor is suing her former graduate student, saying the student’s comments on websites are defamatory.
“When you make false statements of fact repeatedly about another person with the intent of harming them, that’s over the line,” said Tim Edwards, attorney for UW-Whitewater communications professor Sally Vogl-Bauer.
“If you truthfully say, ‘In my experience, this isn’t a good teacher, I didn’t have a good experience, she was late’ and that’s your opinion, that’s fair,” Edwards said.
Vogl-Bauer is suing Anthony Llewellyn for defamation.
The lawsuit alleges Llewellyn “engaged in an intentional, malicious and unprivileged campaign to defame Dr. Vogl-Bauer, resulting in substantial economic, reputational and emotional injuries.”
Websites dedicated to students reviewing their instructors have proliferated. The Whitewater case raises the question of when online comments become defamation.
Llewellyn posted videos on YouTube and wrote comments on Blogger.com and TeacherComplaints.com describing what he said Vogl-Bauer did to him while he was in her communication theories class in spring 2013.
A few of Llewellyn’s claims are Vogl-Bauer:
— Said he didn’t belong in college
— Labeled him as a horrible student
— Docked him points on assignments
— Caused him to fail out of school
Llewellyn said he spoke with Vogl-Bauer in April about her behavior before he was notified in June that he failed her class.
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