Anna R Morrison Social Media Reflection

On Wednesday, November 11, 2015, I, Anna R. Morrison, was leading my afternoon class, Capstone. Their final assignment was to give a group presentation on the impact of social media. The presentations began around 1:30; each group presenting on the meaning of social media. The presentations were going great as the students had worked very hard with the topic at hand. It was in the second hour of presentations that the reason for this letter presents itself.

Mr. Kyle Clevenger, Sophie Sorenson, and Steven Lyons got up in front of the class to present their information. They did a great job other than, per the assignment, provided more opinions than expert information to back their personal claims. Despite that, they did a great job. …show more content…
Mr. Michael Gavarrete and his group had given a presentation prior to Mr. Kyle’s group and asked a very specific question to the audience that evoked a thoughtful evaluation of oneself regarding their use of social media. When it came time for questions for this new group, Mr. Michael asked a question specifically to Mr. Kyle and it was the exact same question he asked earlier to the entire class. The majority of Kyle’s presentation he presented opinion and not fact. To make sure he understood the question correctly, Kyle asked Michael to clarify his question. When Michael came back with the question Mr. Kyle got aggressive with Michael and was bullying Michael for a response. The short lived debacle between the two of them somehow got to suicide and all of the sudden Mr. Kyle asked Michael, “Are you a God-fearing man?” Noting the aggression in Kyle’s voice and the relationship of the question to the topic I felt that this debate was not needed and I asked Kyle to ask another question. Kyle asked me why I felt this, not needing to give my answer, I informed Kyle that I didn’t feel that this question needed to be addressed. Kyle looked right at Michael and asked him the exact same question. I again repeated myself and Kyle turned to me and told me I had no right to talk to him during his presentation. I said excuse me and at this time Kyle repeated himself over and over again that I had no right to talk to him. The escalation happened so quickly and as I tried to get Kyle to calm down he continued on louder and louder and so I asked him to step out of the class. He said, “Do you want me to go down to the principal’s office?” His tone was sarcastic and disrespectful. I let him know if he wanted to go talk to a dean he could but that was not what I was saying. Mr. Kyle then stated that if he was leaving the classroom he would gather his belongs and leave. He