[DrPhil]

No one is talking about cancelling class everytime a student calls a teacher a name. That's almost everyday fodder for many schools, especially large state schools.

Faculty and staff at VTech are trained in how to deal with students calling them names and issuing perceived threats. They were trained in that before the VTech shooting and reminded after the shooting with some policy changes. That includes discussions of panic buttons in classrooms and the forwarding of emails to administration. This is how it is at VTech and the majority of colleges and universities. For a darn good reason.

And I remind students that while faculty were once students, the students have never been faculty so they need to think about all the good and potential bad that goes into interacting with, and speaking before, students everyday. The petition for criminal, mental, and emotional background checks for students has been deemed a bad idea for most institutions.