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."

Wednesday, 4 August 2010

facebook sexual harassment by LACC student government


to all these people collecting a state salary:

passmacw@lacitycollege.edu; LACCD counsel legal kime@email.laccd.edu; moorelj@lacitycollege.edu; moorejk@lacitycollege.edu; israel fonseci 

an LACC student has drawn to my attention to several LACC students leaders who are using their facebooks to say harassing and/or sexually harassing things about me.

the most egregious was a comment on ASO senator scott clapson's page saying

"i guess she's not going to have her clam banged anytime soon"  which means sex----- to this kind of perverted way of describing the female genitalia.

and then anthropology club president olivia clemens calls me "stark raving mad" on the same facebook thread on scott clapson's facebook.

what do you think about this kind of talk?


i would like to make an official report about this as well---as i feel the school should not foster this bully attitude in intimidating others out of whistleblowing the sexism that this school seems to promote.

isn't this worthy of trying to prevent?

the students are mad at me for calling out the teachers sexism and cursing in the class.

and so instead of there being a resolution, they harass the whistleblower.

are you guys okay with this?

can you tell me the progress on my numerous complaints

regarding the sheila dharod defamation case regarding the ASO alcohol/harassment of the minor expose and sheila's subsequent censure by scott clapson

as well as the various instances of cursing and sexism which i reported.

thanks!
i feel awful by the way!

mary eng

Posted by at

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)