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."

Saturday, 27 August 2011

dear chancellor and board of trustees

on behalf of the young women of LACCD
i urge you to reconsider
that i have received a "C" in punishment for reporting Bartelt's rude, sexist, vulgar language in the classroom.
the position of ms. passman and ms. moore is to politely brush it under the rug.  the terms i heard at LACC included "tits and ass" "bitchin" "asshole" "shitty" from Bartelt and "whore" "slut" "prostitute" and more in the paralegal department and a Rape joke about the student raped at LACC by lanzer.
bartelt disparaged anorexics, bulimics, vegetarians, and christians.
eckford threatened to kick me out of the class for blogging and said "vagina" to me.
this is my formal request for an appeal.

the public outing of internal civil rights act violations and sexual harassment of a hostile nature contributing to a hostile atmosphere such that women are denied EQUAL ACCESS to an education must be assessed.
please make LACC fair.
please send me copies of my complaints on
bartelt
eckford
vargas
duffy
lewis

i suffer great measures of sadness and anxiety that this VERBAL HUMILIATION is used against women unfairly
in the classroom
i am sad

please mail all copies of your documentation to  of my discrimination complaints to
XXXX

please include internal memos
hiring/firing policies and revision of
training modules that have come about as
LACCD has faced exposure
please also let me know how
LACCD will remunerate or reward me for my work as a watchdog and whistleblower.
regardless of the outcome of your appeal
i will not be satisfied until all women are treated fairly in the classroom.
the systemic sexist Abuse Passman and Moore protect
inhibit the future of equality
other issues of advocacy are impacted by the educational environment.
serious social change in the areas of

domestic violence
rape
pay inequality
reproductive care inequality
verbal abuse
spouse battery
homicide
sex work
lack of female representation in government

are
hindered by your POOR methods of Educating and controlling your sexist professors.  i strongly urge you to exercise Leadership for the Future of women in LACC and Beyond.
that you continue to rake in federal dollars while protecting verbal abuse
by White Male Professors
against your Latina and Asian and Middle Eastern
women of LACC can only appear to me to be
both extremely sexist
and RACIST

courage is contagious.

that your company cannot avoid the serious Public Relations  Fiasco on the Blogosphere by exerting sound Leadership is to me an avoidable error.
please consider a Best Practices Approach to Training Your Professors.
if it is not a Best Practice to shout "Tits and Ass" at a female student and then retaliate against and punish her with a "C"  for reporting it Perhaps you can hold a conference of Teachers to keep them in check.
Good Wishes for Your Work for Equality and Human Rights.
I look forward to th outcome of this appeal.
I will submit to interview and provide documents and BLOG>

see
http://thereallacc.blogspot.com/

as well as

http://culturalanthropologynotesbartelt.blogspot.com/

and

http://digitalanthropologies.blogspot.com/
for Evidence

for the Women of Los Angeles
and LACC
and all oppressed minorities, disabled, Transgendered, GAY, etc

The LACC Equality Coalition

mary eng

maryeng1@yahoo.com
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