Impolite or not?

We really cant blame those students if they got bored in the lecture and dont want to listen to it. It seems difficult to pretend to like something especially if you dont like that something. If I am the teacher in that lecture, of course I am gonna be hurt about it but I have to take it as a challenge to improve on my lecture next time.

I think it really depends on what the lecture was about. Generally, I do agree that it is polite to stay until the end, after all, it is also pretty embarrassing for the speaker AND also for the one who leaves, as everyone is definitely going to look... If the speaker was being offensive or blatantly ridiculous in his lecture, and for that many people to leave, there must have been something very wrong with the lecture...

I think if students don't want to go to class, then don't go but when they are there, they disrespect the professor if they leave early. If someone has an emergency and needs to leave earlier and they slip out quietly, then it is alright. Yet some people are so disrespectful, they leave and make a lot of noise, slamming the doors and such. Lectures are not meant to be fun. If the professor has good humor, then the students are lucky but it is not required.

I don't think it is impolite. As a lecturer, his responsibility is to make his lecture interesting, meaningful and attractive, if he can't, he has no qualification to blame listener's leaving. For me, I'll leave decisively, never stay there wasting time and effort.

I feel that it is rude for someone to leave during a lecture. When they signed up for the lecture they should have realized what it was going to be about.

I believe that is very rude because that would seriously hurt me if I was the speaker and 115 people left. They must have never thought about how much that would hurt somebody if that happened to them.

I think it's extremely rude, and it's not doing your grade any good either. I get bored during lectures all the time, but I always sit and continue to listen... no matter how painful! All my fellow classmates always whine about their grades and ask me how I got to be so smart. I tell them it's quite simple. I'm not horribly smart... but I know how to sit and listen.

It can be considered rude or even disrespectful but there are exceptions to every rule. If students thought they were in one place but were supposed to be someplace else... this happens often; if they were there for a part of a lecture but had to get to a class... this also happens fairly often... It does seem odd for the audience to go from 150 to 15. Either the lecturer was not a good speaker or the topic must have been very off-putting.

For me, it is partly impolite, partly polite. Take the situation as something really personal. If you are invited to a friend's house and you said yes, you are expected, thus, welcome you with open arms. Now, that you want to leave, you will not leave the place without saying a word to its host, right? At least, you'd inform them that you are leaving and thanking them for accommodating you. This is also true to that lecture. The host prepared for it because it has expected that there'll be attendees. And leaving the lecture room without a word is definitely impolite. However, since, it is not a personal thing, it can be a normal reaction to a boring lecture. You can leave without informing the host since it is more impolite to tell him that you are leaving because you are bored. The only downside was, you were not the only one who was thinking the same thing.LOL. 115 persons missing compared to 15 remaining is definitely hard not to notice.:-)

I dont think its impolite...i would rather say they were impatient.being a student we never under stand as how would it be on your part if we dont care to concentrate on the lecture----In general it depends on the lecturers as well...there are some professors who go on with their explaination so pleasantly that we feel like sleeping lol---couple of live examples can do wonders which can grab students attention.it would be pretty hard to continue the class if its more of a fuss----so why not let them go than to force them to listen to you.great day.

Reminds me of what happened during my uni years when the lecturer was mumbling to herself throughout the lectures and she was (not sure if she is still doing that now) simply reading straight from the book content and thus, I happens to be one of the students who have had enough and left after the break. I believe the one who should be thinking why such situation happens should be the lecturer and not the students. The least that we can do was to leave during break time. I think the lecturer who led to a long discussion about respect and politeness should find out more about the situation first. I mean 115 students leaving the lecture... So will it be better if the 115 students tell the lecturer they want to leave straight and the reason behind it straight in the lecturer's face? So no, I don't think it's impolite to leave.

Well according to me its not about being polite or impolite. if you cant take that lecture then its just a waste to sit. So its not impolite according to me if you leave.

It is very impolite let us not forget about our manners. No matter if the lecture is boring or not we must still give due respect and this is a test of character. Just come to think of it if you were in the teacher's shoes would you be happy or feel the same way? The problem with "liberated" people as they call themselves is that the word "respect and courtesy" is no longer found in their vocabulary. That is why it very important for parents to ingrain these values into their children as early as possible.

It depends on the teacher. In your case yes its really impolite. But there are teachers that its okay for them even if all of his/her students leave in the middle of the class. If I am the teacher its fine for me. But I will only check the attendance at the end of the class.

Impolite..if that was a mandatory lecture, you should finish it and air your grudge later..that is not a theater show or a campaign rally that you can leave anytime you want if you are being bored or unsatisfied.

It is not rude or impolite for the participant in a lecture to leave the lecture area for varying reasons. First of, personal matter - perhaps emergency call received by a participant, or any other reasons that has to be attended to immediately, and lastly, the topic being discussed is not in their interest or the lecturer is boring, why not leave. I think it is better for the lecturer to see some vacant chairs than to see some participants sleeping during the lecture.

Hi Porcospino, I don't think it is rude at all. The students politely waited until the break time to leave or should I say, escape the boring lecture. The number of students that left paints a pretty clear picture here. Obvously the lecture must have been painfully boring. I don't know about you but I've been to some very boring lectures and it is all you can do to hold your eyes open. These kids Kindly waited for a decent departure. I don't see them as rude at all...honest maybe.

I think the teacher has a right to say all these because in his point of view he thought he was giving some useful lectures and then the students who left were insulting his lecture but then I also think he has exaggerated because the students have a right too to think what they want.

It is really impolite to leave when there is someone speaking. In your case, it was only a break but you're supposed to finish the lecture. It is truly embarrassing for the organizer who will obviously not be able to explain the disappearance of the audience. I remember an almost similar incident but the organizers saw to it that the same number of students attended the second half of the lecture by asking two classes to attend it. The best way to avoid such an embarrassment is for the organizers to get a real good speakers so the audience will stay until the end.

Hi Porcospino, lecture is depends on the people how they comeout with the points, and it should be interesting, if the students find that person is not clear in his lecture, then they will not like to sit in the room. In my college also, we are very choosy about the lecture, we have our favorite lectures too, we wouldn't like to miss any of her lecture. That doesn't mean the students are impolite or they don't respect. Students will respect their lecturers and respect them too but the expressions and the way the lecture will be concerned. Some of the lecture's, lecture we feel sleepy and bore. What they told we will not be known, and some of the lecturer's will attract the students with their lecture.