Professor berates student in Myanmar for missing exam due to military-imposed internet blackout, viral screenshots show

A professor at York University in Ontario, Canada, has been pulled from the course he was teaching after screenshots that showed him berating and threatening to fail a student went viral earlier this week. The professor is seen telling the student, who said they could not take their midterm exam because of the military-imposed internet blackout in Myanmar, that "The next time you miss something, it's over."

Screenshots of the email exchange show the student asking mathematics and statistics professor Emanoil Theodorescu for a deferral of their midterm exam, saying they recently learned the military would be imposing another internet blackout.  "I have just learned that from tomorrow all cellular data, wifi and internet services will be cut off indefinitely," the student wrote. "Therefore, there will be a total communications blackout."