do no harm:


idit dobb-weinstein: "teaching is action and thinking at once. What I try to guard against most when I teach is not speaking as if my answer were conclusive, so as to avoid (to the extent possible) any kind of dogmatic appropriation. It is understandable why students might wish to imitate their teachers, but there are different modes of imitation. I try very hard to avoid the mimetic appropriation that is immediate, passive, and occludes thinking. One other reason is that if I made clear what my views were, and my views appeared as if they were final, it would preclude the possibility of first, students challenging me and second, learning from my students. The relation between the student and teacher is, to me, a dynamic relationship . . . Teaching and learning is a movement that occurs between. In other words, we are at once both agent and patient, both teacher and learner. If we are not very careful, we can do a great deal of harm. And that, too, I have learned from my teachers, Maimonides especially.

I believe my task is to provoke students to think and to engage them in genuine dialogue and questioning. To paraphrase a rabbinic saying, 'I have learned from my teachers, and I have learned from my peers, but I have learned most from my students.' And that is a continuous process of learning."

Tuesday 27 April 2010

email response to gene fernandez who says the abuse sounds scary


writing my blog
writing sacramento

made
report with christie passman (who protected the abusers spring 09)
report with joyce moore
report with earic peters

need to schedule meeting with peters

also crying nonstop bc
that is what psychological abuse is designed to do

intimidate people out of their right to an equal learning atmosphere and make them weak powerless and afraid

i have also lost my appetite and have recurring thoughts of anxiety and pain
and flashbacks

umm---i am trying to stay cool and not drop out of school but 
when professors harass 

women who have already been sexually harassed at work, by strangers, etc or people who have been sexually abused
they trigger flashbacks and reignite the pain

i am so deeply saddened that LACC admin will not do something proactive now to stop the abuse

thanks for your support gene.
i will forward to you an especially disgusting email from the tits and ass professor

i have a huge history of correspondence with lewis who wanted us to do a report on topless dancing and who talks about prostitution in the most demeaning way possible.
he too is such a shame to the school

thank you
mary eng
earic can we meet soon?






From: gene fernandez <janvin1988@gmail.com>
To: mary eng
Sent: Tue, April 27, 2010 11:46:36 AM
Subject: Re: Hi this is about the student trustee election.

Wow, what are you doing about the situation? It sounds scary!

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 7:12 AM, mary eng <maryeng1@yahoo.com> wrote:
> gene thank you.
> this is disturbing.
> as a sexual abuse survivor, i especially suffer when my professors say
> offensive things like "slut" (lanzer in the law department) or bartelt in
> anthropology ("tits and ass").
> it also hurts that they treat women condescendingly and are mean to them
> when they talk.
> and now to think about this????
> thank you for trying to protect us.
> there is/was a registered offender in my building.
> i'm so creeped out.
>
> ________________________________
> From: gene fernandez <janvin1988@gmail.com>
> To: Gene fernandez <janvin1988@gmail.com>
> Sent: Tue, April 27, 2010 1:03:59 AM
> Subject: Hi this is about the student trustee election.
>
> Hi there I know I've talked to a few of you guys on the phone about
> this but could you let me know if a Mr. Stefan Stitch came to your
> club meetings at any time within the last couple of weeks to speak
> about the student trustee position? Please let me know. He is a
> registered sex offender and due to Megans Law he has to inform the
> campus security of his whereabouts on campus. So if you can let me
> know ASAP please do.
>
> You can read more about Megan's law at:
>
http://www.meganslaw.ca.gov/
>
>
>
California's Megan's Law provides the public with certain information
> on the whereabouts of sex offenders so that members of our local
> communities may protect themselves and their children. Megan's Law is
> named after seven-year-old Megan Kanka, a New Jersey girl who was
> raped and killed by a known child molester who had moved across the
> street from the family without their knowledge. In the wake of the
> tragedy, the Kankas sought to have local communities warned about sex
> offenders in the area. All states now have a form of Megan's Law.
>
>
>
> --
> Thank you very much
>
>
> Let me know when we exchange words what I can do to be better because
> if you do not then I have failed you and you have have failed your
> honesty. -Gene Fernandez
>



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