do professors regret that students are dropping their class including the belligerent ones?

Answer 1

I strongly disagree with tne answer above.

The vast majority of my colleagues (and myself) enjoy teaching, and enjoy our undergraduate students.

But I believe this question, although poorly phrased, is asking about "belligerent students," not "belligerent professors," so I will answer the question I suspect is being asked.

Professors love it when annoying students drop, so we can better teach the ones that actually wish to be there.

Answer 2

I also strongly disagree with that first answer. I loved my students and I really miss seeing them every week. Over the years I have taught many thousands of students. I must say that I very, very rarely had any student that was "belligerent." When I had a student who was rude in class - which VERY rarely happened - I spoke to them and told them they would be withdrawn from class if they didnt shape up. I think in 40 years I actually threw out maybe three or four students.

It is always a little sad to see a student drop a class, because it might mean that you werent doing as good a job as you could do in teaching the class. But nearly always the reason why the student was dropping was something personal and had nothing to do with me. Many, many times a student would drop, or fail, the class and then show up again the next term, usually in the front row with a new attitude. On the whole I didnt take it personally when a student dropped because I know they sometimes have complicated life issues that took precedence over my class.

Answer 3

Most professors barely register the existence of undergraduates -- especially first year undergraduates.

Professors are hired to do research; teaching is a duty imposed on them, that many are temperamentally unsuited to, and others find annoying at best. The fact that some claim to enjoy it is somewhat undermined by the many faculty associations that insist that teaching hours NOT be increased. (And, the fact is, most professors have no training whatsoever as educators; possessing a degree, even an advanced one, does not make you a teacher by osmosis.)

They are often belligerent because they do, in fact, want you to go away.

People who want to TEACH, are the despised folk you ignored and thought were out to get you back in High School. They cared about you, and wanted you to do well, and some were even upset if students drop their classes (particularly if they now that the student really needs what they are teaching).

Isn't that ironic?