The video that circulated on social media and showed an alleged argument between a student and a university professor, which ended with insults and applause in the room, is after all nothing more than an act.
The images, recorded at the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD), went viral again in recent days, leading thousands of people to believe that the episode was real.
The video shows a student trying to justify an absence for having stayed at home to take care of her child, something that the teacher rejects with comments considered offensive, such as “if I wanted to have children I couldn’t go to university”. The scene ends with the young woman insulting the teacher and leaving the room, to the applause of her colleagues, in a gesture that on social media was widely praised as an act of courage.
However, it was all just a “ghost class”, a form of traditional UTAD practice in which older students stage unusual situations to surprise the freshmen.
The confirmation that it was an act led the social network X to place a context warning in the publications, clarifying that the episode was not real.
Listen until the end. University professor does not accept a student’s absence because she says she should not have had a child at university 🫨
— Bilbia mt engarsada (@BilbiaOfissial)
